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Immigrants on Boats

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Description: Medical officers inspecting immigrants.
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Madison Turners

Date: 1863
Description: Black & white lithograph by Milwaukee lithographer Louis Kurz depicting the Madison Turners or Turnverein at a shooting party on the Madison lakefront. Th...
Map or Atlas

Karte des staates Wisconsin aufgenommen in die Union

Date: 1848
Description: Immigrant map.
Photograph

Statue of Liberty as Photographed Upon Arrival into the United States by Holocaust Survivor

Date: 1947
Description: The Statue of Liberty and New York Harbor as photographed by Holocaust survivor, Louis Koplin. Taken from the ship carrying him from Europe to the United S...
Poster

Food Will Win the War

Date: 1917
Description: World War I poster urging newly arrived immigrants to conserve food to aid the allied cause. People in ethnic costume being ushered into the United States ...
Map or Atlas

Foreign-Born Scandinavians in Wisconsin

Date: 1905
Description: A map of showing the population density of foreign-born Scandinavians in Wisconsin based information from the 1905 census. The map also shows the county bo...
Map or Atlas

German-Born in Wisconsin

Date: 
Description: A map indicating the population density of German-born people in Wisconsin based on the 1905 census. The map shows the county boundaries throughout the sta...
Map or Atlas

Welsh Settlement in Southern Wisconsin

Date: 1998
Description: This map shows the number of Welsh-born heads of households around 1870. A small inset map in the lower left corner shows Welsh land ownership in the heart...
Map or Atlas

Where They Settled in Wisconsin

Date: 1982
Description: This map shows the location of major settlement regions for various ethnic groups. Includes a legend in lower left hand corner. Sparse settlement is repres...
Map or Atlas

The Rand-McNally New Commercial Atlas Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1913
Description: This map details automobile routes throughout the state and parts of Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, and Iowa. Cities, counties, Lake Michigan, Lake Superio...

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