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Hughlett's Smelting Furnace

Date: 05 1866
Description: Engraved exterior view of a smelting furnace with a small group of men with horses gathered in front.
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Lead-Mining Furnace

Date: 1853
Description: Engraved exterior view of a lead mining furnace. A man sits in a horse-drawn wagon at the left of the building.
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Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee in 1853

Date: 1937
Description: Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee in 1853 details building features and city layout from southwest. Important buildings are numbered in a silhouette drawing bel...
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McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1885
Description: Engraved bird's-eye view illustration of the "McCormick Harvesting Machine Company's Works," including railroad cars, smoke from smokestacks and factory wo...
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Dalles of the Wisconsin "The Jaws"

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Description: Engraved view of "The Jaws" in the Wisconsin Dells.
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The United States of North America, with the British & Spanish Territories According to the Treaty

Date: 1783
Description: This map is hand-colored and shows the boundaries of British, Spanish, and the newly recognized American claims, as well as the fishing rights granted to F...
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Louisiana, as Formerly Claimed by France: Now Containing Part of British America to the East & Spanish America to the West of the Mississipi

Date: 1765
Description: Detailed map composed for the London Magazine of the Mississippi River Valley at the conclusion of the French and Indian War. The British colonies themselv...
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Amplissimæ Regionis Mississipi seu Provinciæ Ludovicianæ: A R. P. Ludovico Hennepin Francisc Miss in America Septentrionali anno 1687

Date: 1720
Description: Detailed, ornate, and comprehensive map of America from the east coast to present day Texas. Numerous features appear throughout the map, including Native ...
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Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin

Date: 1857
Description: Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin as found in American Farmer, vol. 9.

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