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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.
Drawing

Lock at Rexford Flats

Date: 1856
Description: An original illustration of the lock at Rexford Flats.
Photograph

Empire Mill

Date: 1880
Description: Elevated view over canal towards the Empire Mill.
Photograph

Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal

Date: 1875
Description: The harbor piers and the entrance to the Sturgeon Bay ship canal. Men are standing on the shoreline.
Map or Atlas

Plat of Madison

Date: 1854
Description: Madison Plat Map.
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 ...
Drawing

Fox-Wisconsin Canal

Date: 1855
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 ...
Photograph

Portage Canal

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of the Portage Canal.
Photograph

Portage Canal

Date: 1885
Description: Steamboats docked in the Portage Canal, which was hand dug beginning in 1849 and completed in 1851. There are industrial buildings on either side of the ca...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Western States

Date: 1849
Description: Map reads, "Map of the Western States". Published by Ensign & Thayer. There is a decorative vine border, and in each corner there is an engraving of four c...
Map or Atlas

Map of Neenah or Fox River

Date: 1839
Description: Map of a canal route to avoid the principal rapids of the Neenah or Fox River between Lake Winnebago and Green Bay.
Magazine or Periodical

Harper's Weekly Canal Drawing

Date: 08 02 1862
Description: Engraved view of several men in a long trench digging Grant's canal on the Mississippi River opposite Vicksburg.
Map or Atlas

Milwaukee and Rock River Canal

Date: 1837
Description: Map of the proposed route of the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal.
Drawing

Presidential Campaign Ticket

Date: 1880
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...
Map or Atlas

A New Map of Kentucky

Date: 1847
Description: A color map of Kentucky with insets showing Lexington, the Falls of Ohio, and the Ohio River.
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...
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of Milwaukee

Date: 1878
Description: This map shows block numbers, wards, roads, railroads, parks, and selected buildings and includes a "Milwaukee city street guide" as well as a guide to pub...
Print

Birds-Eye View of the Columbian Exposition Grounds

Date: 1891
Description: Color illustration of the grounds and buildings of the 1893 World's Fair or Columbian Exposition.

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