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Bird's-Eye View of the City of Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Date: 1872
Description: Birds-eye drawing of Eau Claire depicts street names and street locations, houses, trees, bridges, piers, canals, railroads, and the Chippewa and Eau Clair...
Map or Atlas

Princeton, Wisconsin, Looking North

Date: 1892
Description: Bird's-eye map of Princeton, with an inset of the Residence of F.T. Yahr. Fox River loops to left of center, with one bridge; thirty-six businesses, reside...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Appleton

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye view of Appleton.
Photograph

Bridge, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

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Description: View of the bridge spanning the Sturgeon Bay canal.
Photograph

Bridge, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

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Description: View from the shoreline of a bridge spanning the Sturgeon Bay canal.
Photograph

Corner of Main Street and Tayco Street

Date: 1870
Description: The corner of unpaved Main Street and Tayco Street looking south towards Doty Island. The slanting timbers controlled the primitive draw bridge across the ...
Map or Atlas

City of Appleton Plat Map

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Description: Plat map of the east central part of the city.
Photograph

Tugboat at Work

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Description: Elevated view of tugboat pulling a steamer caked in ice in a canal. Steam is rising from the water and an open drawbridge can be seen in the background. On...
Photograph

Waterway

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Description: View of a tree-lined waterway that runs through a residential area. The street and commercial buildings are on the left, and there are footbridges from the...
Photograph

North Branch Extension Canal

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Description: Bird's-eye view of the north branch extension canal on the Susquehanna river, surrounded by smaller renderings of structures of interest around the town in...
Photograph

Columbian Exposition View

Date: 1893
Description: View of the canal area of the Columbian Exposition grounds looking north from near the front of the Machinery building (at left). The South canal is in the...
Photograph

Monument at City Center

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Description: View of Masonic Park featuring the Erie Canal and the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, dedicated in 1909. The Empire House can be seen at left, constructed i...
Painting

Menasha Painting

Date: 1856
Description: ". . . The upper Grand Chute was the last of the 'improvements' paintings signed by Brookes and Stevenson. Yet there were two more vital links in the Fox R...
Map or Atlas

Plan of the City of Louisville and its Environs in 1831

Date: 1831
Description: Map of the city of Louisville, Kentucky on the Ohio River showing streets and numbered lots. The Ohio River, Corn Island, and the Louisville and Portland C...
Map or Atlas

Bird's Eye View of Appleton Wisconsin

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye view map of Appleton, Wisconsin. Map reads: "NOTE.-Since the above cut was engraved, the Fox River Pulp & Paper Co.'s Mammoth Mills have been er...
Map or Atlas

City of Portage

Date: 1855
Description: This map shows landownership, lot and block numbers, streets, a canal, bridges, Fort Winnebago, the Wisconsin River, and the Fox River. Relief is shown by ...
Map or Atlas

Chart of Milwaukee Harbor, Wisconsin

Date: 1907
Description: This map is a chart of Milwaukee Harbor that displays local streets, bridges, roads, railroads, public buildings, businesses, factories, dry docks, parks, ...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Appleton, Wis.

Date: 1874
Description: Birds-eye view of Appleton Wisconsin. In the foreground are people fishing, strolling, and looking over the canal towards the Fox River. Streets and buildi...
Photograph

Railroad Tracks at McCormick Works

Date: 11 15 1918
Description: View towards three sets of railroad tracks, each branching off to the left and right between factory buildings. Railroad cars are on another set of tracks ...
Postcard

Bridge at Sturgeon Bay

Date: 1935
Description: Text on front reads: "Bridge at Sturgeon Bay, Door County, Wisconsin." This bridge, also known as the Michigan Street Bridge, was built in 1929 and opened ...

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