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| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | The bay shore of Menominee filled with driftwood. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin map showing land offices, railroads completed, railroad land grants and Indian reservations. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Unloading coal from a large ship in Lake Superior onto land near Washburn. There is a large conveyor that has lights glowing in the dark sky. A large pile ... |
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| Description: | Numbered letterhead of the First National Bank, with a map of Wisconsin and a starred location marker for Chippewa Falls, a medallion, and a flowering stal... |
| 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: | 1778 |
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| Description: | This Italian map from 1778 depicts the upper portion of the Old Northwest. Rivers and lakes are identified and relief, real and imagined, is depicted picto... |
| 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: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A map of Wisconsin showing cities and towns, rivers, lakes, and railroads. Other areas included in the map are the western portion of Michigan's Upper Pen... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A map of Wisconsin that shows 1,900 miles of national highways proposed for the state. The map also includes the names and locations of towns and cities th... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | A map depicting the for systems of land description in Wisconsin, which include metes and bounds, U.S. System of Rectangular Surveys, Latitude and longitud... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Drawn around 1855, this map shows the placement of railroad tracks in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois connecting Milwaukee, Prairie du Chien, Gale... |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | A map that was originally published around 1851 in S. Augustus Mitchell's New universal atlas, shows portions of present-day Iron and Vilas counties north ... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Map exhaustively marks the townships, County Towns and villages of Wisconsin. It also shows rivers, canals, railroads, and plank roads. Each county's popul... |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Map shows Wisconsin counties by color and includes rivers, lakes and some cities. This information is also given for eastern Minnesota and northern Illinoi... |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin counties by color and shows railroads, common roads, canals, the state capital, county towns, townships, villages, and post offices, |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Map of the whole state Wisconsin includes an inset of the vicinity of Milwaukee, which shows the boundaries for Lisbon, Menomonee, Pewaukee, Brookfield, Wa... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | This map shows the entire state of Wisconsin with counties, cities and rivers. It includes an inset of the layout of the streets of Milwaukee and a chart w... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | This detailed map was drawn nearly a decade after Wisconsin entered statehood. It depicts the entire state, northern Illinois and part of the upper peninsu... |
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