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| Date: | 1862 |
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| 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, ... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Lithography of C. Van Benthuysen. |
| 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: | 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: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A hand-colored map showing the counties, major cities, ports, railroads, rivers and lakes in Wisconsin, Michigan, northern Illinois, and eastern Minnesota.... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | A hand-colored survey map of southeastern Minnesota and Wisconsin, showing the locations of railroads, land grant railroads, land offices, and the 6 and 15... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin and parts of Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois and Iowa. It shows cities and towns, drainage, administrative boundaries and the railroad network with... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | This map shows county boundaries, outlined in red. Each county's population is handwritten in the margins. The map also includes towns, rivers and lakes. |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | This thematic shows the effects that Lake Michigan has had on Wisconsin mean temperatures in January and July. The map shows counties, some cities, rivers ... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | This map shows the population density per square mile in the entire state, showing southeastern and southern Wisconsin had the greatest population density ... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Drawn the last year of the Civil War, this thematic map shows the effects that Lake Michigan has had on Wisconsin temperatures in January and July. The map... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | A pen on paper, hand-drawn and colored map of Wisconsin and Michigan, showing counties, cities and villages, rivers and lakes, as well as railroads are in ... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Map of the entire state indicates county boundaries outlined in red, cities of over 3000 inhabitants and county seats. It also marks rivers and lakes. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Prepared for the State Board of Emigration in 1868, this map shows county boundaries, some cities, and completed and projected railroads. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | This map is one of the earliest weather maps of the United States, which traced an 1859 storm across the continent. Manuscript annotations in red ink show ... |
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