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| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | The harbor piers and the entrance to the Sturgeon Bay ship canal. Men are standing on the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Fox-Wisconsin portage and canal map, when the canal was not yet built. From a map in the office of the city clerk at Portage. "The old trail, the location ... |
| Date: | 1839 |
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| Description: | Map of a canal route to avoid the principal rapids of the Neenah or Fox River between Lake Winnebago and Green Bay. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Republican Campaign Ticket issued in Dane County, Wisconsin. Heading the slate are James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur. Near the bottom of the ticket... |
| Date: | 1847 |
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| Description: | A color map of Kentucky with insets showing Lexington, the Falls of Ohio, and the Ohio River. |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Engraved image of a boat being towed through a canal at Little Falls by a team of horses. A small town is in the background. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Engraved image of a lock and dam at Sault St. Marie. Two men are operating the sluice as ships are waiting on the opposite side of the lock. Another man is... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | This map is of the towns of Neenah and Menasha and shows existing and proposed canals. Water depths shown by soundings. Little Butte des Morts Lake, Doty I... |
| Date: | 1846 |
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| Description: | This plat map, which features the very early spelling of Wisconsin as "Wiskonsin", was created sometime between 1846 and 1854 and shows a canal and dam on ... |
| Date: | 1800 |
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| Description: | This map shows the land claim owned by the Portage Canal Company and includes an index of landownership and landmarks. The Wisconsin and Portage River, the... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of excursion boat docked in a wooded area. From left to right: Mary ??, Elizabeth Layton, Grace Hayman, Henry Wallis (owner of the Fren... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | This map shows lot and block numbers, streets, railroad depots, locks, bridges, dams, canals, U.S. light house, college grounds, a steam boat landing, and ... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Front cover and interior of banquet menu for Mexican President Porfirio Diaz, to celebrate the construction of a drainage canal between Lake Texcoco and La... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | One-page tea room menu from the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition. At the top is an illustration of a gondolier steering a couple in a c... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | This map includes a table of estimated costs "by Brev. Maj. Gen. G.K. Warren Maj. U.S.E., of improvement of Wis. River from his survey of 1867." Included a... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the George Whiting Paper Mill on the Lawson Canal. |
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