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Conklin Ice House

Date: 1912
Description: Men harvesting ice at the Conklin Ice House on Lake Mendota. The men are using pike poles to slide the blocks to the conveyor and U-shaped tools to split p...
Photograph

E.A. Birge Reading an Anemometer

Date: 1912
Description: Dr. E.A. Birge in his element, reading an anemometer of the weather data station on Green Lake.
Postcard

Bird's-Eye View, looking East, Neenah, Wis.

Date: 1912
Description: Elevated view over town towards the lake. Signs on some of the buildings read: "Old Partner Tobacco"; "Wisconsin Bag & Burlap Co."; "M. Burstein [?] and As...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: A Carload of Fish

Date: 1912
Description: Photomontage of a giant fish resting on a single flatbed railroad car, next to a lake. Black text above the image field reads, "A Carload of Fish."
Photograph

Jones Island

Date: 1912
Description: A fishing settlement. Small buildings and boats line a bay, with sand and a piece of driftwood in the foreground.
Photograph

Jones Island

Date: 1912
Description: A fishing settlement. Two piers at the shoreline with a sandy beach, one with a ramp next to it. There are several buildings in the background. Two tugbo...
Postcard

St. Joesphat Church

Date: 1912
Description: Church and school seen from Kosciuszko Park. Located across a lake, behind some trees and bushes. A woman is sitting on some decorative stones next to the ...
Photograph

Scenic View of Bridge

Date: 1912
Description: A wooden bridge across a river or lake.
Map or Atlas

Outline Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1912
Description: An ink and pencil on paper map of Wisconsin that shows contemporary county divisions in the state. The map depicts the locations of some of the rivers that...
Map or Atlas

State of Wisconsin

Date: 1912
Description: This map from the U.S. General Land Office shows railroads, counties, cities and villages, rivers, lakes, U.S. Land Offices, Indian reservations, military ...
Map or Atlas

Population Dot Maps of Southern Wisconsin

Date: 1912
Description: This map is pen, ink, and pencil on tracing paper. The map was traced from U.S. Geological Survey map of Wisconsin, compiled in 1910-1911, and printed in 1...
Map or Atlas

Map of Barron County, Wis.

Date: 1912
Description: This early 20th century map of Barron County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, railroads, roads, houses,...
Photograph

Picnickers on Presque Isle

Date: 1912
Description: Picnic party on the rocks along the shore, among the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior.
Postcard

View from the Site of Norway Spring

Date: 1912
Description: This view is looking northeast from the site of Norway Springs at the north end of Trout Lake in the spring. In the foreground are tree stumps; in the back...
Postcard

East Shore Trout Lake

Date: 1912
Description: View across water of the east shore of Trout Lake. Caption reads: "East Shore. Trout Lake, Vilas Co. Wis."
Map or Atlas

Plat of Sections 17-18-19 & 20, T.31N. R.6W., Including the Recorded Plats of Cornell, Being the Property to be Incorporated within the Village of Cornell, Chippewa County, Wisconsin and Containing 2338.94 Acres

Date: 1912
Description: This blueprint manuscript map shows landownership, mills, railroad, churches, public buildings, the old cemetery, and the Chippewa River and Reservoir. The...
Map or Atlas

Map of the University of Wisconsin

Date: 1912
Description: This manuscript blueprint map shows numbered buildings and manuscript annotations. Lake Mendota and streets are labeled.
Map or Atlas

Marinette Plat Map

Date: 1912
Description: Marinette County, Township 36 N., Range 19 E.
Map or Atlas

Marinette Plat Map

Date: 1912
Description: Marinette County, Township 36 N., Range 20 E.
Map or Atlas

Marinette Plat Map

Date: 1912
Description: Marinette County, Fract. Township 37 N., Ranges 21 and 22 E.

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