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| Date: | 1839 |
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| Description: | Shows locations of cities, towns, villages, post hamlets, canals, rail and stage roads. Includes table of steamboat routes and distances; vignette of "Maid... |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Shows railroads, planned and in place. |
| Date: | 1824 |
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| Description: | Drawn and engraved by Sidney Hall. Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green. Scale: 1:200. Partly colored. This is probably the second Europe... |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Map reads: "Map of the United States of America with its Territories and Districts - Including also a part of Upper and Lower Canada and Mexico". The map i... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Map reads "Our Country" which is accompanied by a sailor with a flag to the left and workers rejoicing under the Constitution and Laws to the right. Across... |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Map reads, "Map of Wisconsin". The map includes the counties, an inset of the city of Milwaukee, total population of each county and of the state. The scal... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Map reads: "Johnson's Wisconsin and Michigan". There is a decorative border, a scale of which ten miles is approximately one inch and individual counties d... |
| Date: | 1820 |
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| Description: | Narrative Journal of Travels through the northwestern regions of the United States, extending from Detroit through the great chain of American lakes to the... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Section 3 of 12, this bicycle road map features Wisconsin bicycle routes in the counties of Winnebago, Calumet, Manitowoc, Outagamie, Brown, Kewaunee, and ... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin map showing the Wisconsin Superior and St. Croix Railroad. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A color map detailing Ashland and Bayfield counties, including Lake Superior and the Apostle Islands. |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | 1859 sectional map of the state of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Cover art for a pamphlet advertising The Apostle Islands and Lake Superior. The upper half of the artwork depicts a sunset view of Lake Superior, and the b... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Map of northern Wisconsin showing the lands owned by Cornell University (shaded portions) in 1877. The map depicts the lakes, river systems, towns, and th... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | A bird's-eye map of Menekaune, Menominee and Marinette. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | The bay shore of Menominee filled with driftwood. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Color illustration of the grounds and buildings of the 1893 World's Fair or Columbian Exposition. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | This colored map shows railroad lines east of the Mississippi as well as in the states bordering the Mississippi River. The Great Lakes and Gulf of Mexico ... |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Ink on tracing paper map of Green Bay, Wisconsin and nearby areas, Lake Winnebago, Fox and Wolf Rivers, and the junctions of the Mississippi and Wisconsin ... |
| Date: | 1847 |
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| Description: | In 1847, a year before Wisconsin entered statehood, most of the county shapes in southeastern and southern Wisconsin looked the same as they do today, wher... |
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