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| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Ashland, on the shores of Lake Superior, with insets of The Apostle Islands Chequamagon Bay & Ashland, and Distances from Ashland. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Bayfield, county seat of Bayfield County. On the lower left side is an inset for Bayfield and the Apostle Islands. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Superior. "The New Steel Center." |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Washburn on Lake Superior. There is an inset of Washburn, Chequamagon and the Apostle Islands. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Two Rivers. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Washburn, with twenty vignettes around side, water in foreground with docks and lumber corral. Thirty-three locations identified in key ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view looking east, with Washburn Harbor at center and Chequamegon Bay in Lake Superior covering most of the upper image. Streets with buildings... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of International Harvester's Wisconsin Steel Works, with a river and Lake Michigan in the background. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | The bay shore of Menominee filled with driftwood. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | This map shows industrial points of interest in Superior. The top of the map reads: "Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin, as this Industrial Tour map indic... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | This map shows the movement from coalfields in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, and part of Virginia to Lake Erie. Quantities of coal are label... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | This map shows the movement of iron ore in areas of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, and parts of Ontario, Maryland, and ... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | This map shows the movement of iron ore in parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and includes parts of Lake Superior, Green B... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | This map shows the movement of iron ore along the Great Lakes. Portions of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, New York, Vermont... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | This map shows the movement of anthracite coal throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ontario, Quebec, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and New York. Iowa, Vermont,... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | This map shows road surfaces, construction, flying fields, seaplane landings, populations of cities and towns, and ferry routes of Wisconsin and some of th... |
| Date: | 1745 |
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| Description: | Landmark map of the Great Lakes region and one of the most advanced depictions of the lakes and surrounding areas for its time. It is the first map to intr... |
| Date: | 1720 |
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| Description: | Detailed, ornate, and comprehensive map of America from the east coast to present day Texas. Numerous features appear throughout the map, including Native ... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Ore Docks, Superior, Wis." Elevated view of an ore carrying ship that is within the ore docks on Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 09 1918 |
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| Description: | An insurance map of Washburn, with an index and a key. Includes a small inset map of the State of Wisconsin that shows "Location of this town as above unde... |
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