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| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Pastoral scene depicting a small bay on the Island of St. Ignace in Lake Superior with canoes on the rocky beach, two men conversing on a blanket in the fo... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Birds-eye drawing of Oconomowoc depicts street names and street layouts, houses, trees, Oconomowoc River, Fowler Lake, and La Belle Lake. A reference key a... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Colored bird's-eye map of Oconomowoc and the Lake Region, Waukesha County. Looking North from Government Hill. Location key below image identifies 24 Hotel... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Panorama bird's-eye view of the town of Ashland, on Lake Superior, and the Apostle Islands. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Old Mission Inn and boats on shoreline of Lake Superior on Madeline Island. The Old Mission Inn had numerous modifications over the years. It was razed in... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | In April of 1860 Hölzlhuber took the railway from Milwaukee to Lake Horicon to visit the small town that was developing on its shore. Since the settlers we... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Map of Wisconsin including Lakes Michigan and Superior. Inset includes "N.W. Part of Wiskonsan." |
| Date: | 05 24 1896 |
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| Description: | Rocky Roost, a cottage designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his friend Robert Lamp. Located west of Governor's Island in Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | This map surveyed under the direction of Captain Thomas J. Cram is one in a series of seventeen that accompanied Cram's report on the Fox-Wisconsin river s... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View from shore of sailboat anchored on the lake. There appears to be an island in the upper left. |
| 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: | 1856 |
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| Description: | A hand-colored map of Wisconsin, showing the county boundaries, towns, cities, railroads, roads, lakes, rivers, bays, and the Lake Superior’s islands. In ... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Map of the triangulations made from Vulcan on the Keweenaw Peninsula in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan south through eastern Wisconsin, past Chicago to Ba... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | A detailed, hand-colored map of Wisconsin and the western portion of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, which also includes an inset of Isle Royale in Lake Superi... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | A hand-colored, cloth mounted, sectional map of Wisconsin showing the township grid, completed and proposed railroads, counties, towns, cities, villages. T... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | A hand-colored, sectional map of Wisconsin showing the township grid, completed and proposed railroads, counties, towns, cities, villages. The map also inc... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Ink, watercolor, and pencil on paper. Top of the map reads: "NORTHERN OUTLET MENASHA MEANDER LINES Scale 132ft 1 INCH Var S.E. Survey Completed Spet. 23 18... |
| Date: | 08 24 1899 |
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| Description: | Pen-and-ink and color on paper. Also shows probable routes of the French explorers Constant le Marchand de Lignery in 1728 and Louis de la Porte de Louvign... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A plat map of the township of Westport. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | This map is of the towns of Neenah and Menasha and shows existing and proposed canals. Water depths shown by soundings. Little Butte des Morts Lake, Doty I... |
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