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Milwaukee River Scene

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Description: Elevated view of a Milwaukee River scene showing people watching several steamboats from a bridge.
Map or Atlas

Map of Milwaukee

Date: 1862
Description: Drawn the second year of the Civil War, this 1862 map of Milwaukee shows post offices, light houses, beacon lights, county buildings, elevator warehouses, ...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Superior

Date: 1883
Description: Bird's-eye map of Superior, county seat of Douglas County, on the shores of Lake Superior, with insets of points of interest.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Superior

Date: 1913
Description: Bird's-eye map of Superior. "The New Steel Center."
Map or Atlas

The Twin Ports, Superior, Wisconsin and Duluth, Minnesota

Date: 1915
Description: Bird's-eye view of Superior, Wisconsin, and Duluth, Minnesota on opposite shore of Lake Superior.
Map or Atlas

Map of Electric Railway System. T.M.E.R. & L. Co.

Date: 1898
Description: Bird's-eye map, looking west from shoreline on Lake Michigan of Milwaukee to Golden Lake in Waukesha County, with Kenosha and Fox Point at bottom corners, ...
Map or Atlas

Milwaukee-Downer College-Wisconsin

Date: 1927
Description: Color map, hand-drawn with comic figures engaged in various activities throughout map. Bordered by the river on the left and Lake Michigan on the right, in...
Map or Atlas

View of the City of Two Rivers, Wis.

Date: 1879
Description: Bird's-eye map of Two Rivers.
Postcard

Manitowoc, The Gateway between the East and the West

Date: 1905
Description: Bird's-eye view of Manitowoc on the shores of Lake Michigan. A map of the northeastern part of the United States at the top indicates Manitowoc's location ...
Map or Atlas

Continental View of World's Columbian Exposition

Date: 1892
Description: Bird's-eye view of the Columbian Exposition pavilions from the vantage point of Lake Michigan. Included is an inset of the Union Passenger Station (now Uni...
Map or Atlas

Official Railroad Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1906
Description: Railroad map of Wisconsin.
Map or Atlas

Map of Wiskonsan (Wisconsin)

Date: 1844
Description: Map of Wisconsin including Lakes Michigan and Superior. Inset includes "N.W. Part of Wiskonsan."
Map or Atlas

Map of the State of Wisconsin

Date: 1896
Description: Map showing the Wisconsin Central Railroad and its land grant, with the railroad and the land grant in color (red).
Map or Atlas

Relief map of Wisconsin accompanying Bulletin XXXVI

Date: 1910
Description: Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, by Lawrence Martin reproduced from a model of the state prepared by W.O. Hotchkiss and F.T. Thwaites and m...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Northern Part of the United States

Date: 1798
Description: Uncolored. No scale. One of the earliest maps to show the proposed division of the northwest territory into states.
Map or Atlas

State of Wisconsin Highway Map

Date: 1913
Description: Wisconsin map showing fifteen hundred miles of national highways proposed by the National Highways Association. Scale: 1:2,500,000. These highways will dir...
Map or Atlas

Map shewing [sic] the Several Routes Proposed for the Passage of Gun-Boats to the Lakes

Date: 1862
Description: Lithography of C. Van Benthuysen.
Map or Atlas

A Map of the British and French dominions in North American with the Roads, Distances, Limits, and Extent of the Settlements

Date: 1755
Description: From "A map of the British and French dominions in North American with the roads, distances, limits, and extent of the settlements".
Map or Atlas

Guide through Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin and Iowa

Date: 1839
Description: Shows locations of cities, towns, villages, post hamlets, canals, rail and stage roads. Includes table of steamboat routes and distances; vignette of "Maid...
Map or Atlas

Route of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers Improvement

Date: 1853
Description: Shows railroads, planned and in place.

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