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| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | In 1849, northern Wisconsin was composed of huge sectional regions such as Chippewa, Portage, Brown and Crawford, whereas southern Wisconsin was constitute... |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | Watercolor of the Reid House, residence of William Reid at the head of Big Foot Lake (Lake Geneva). Two children and a woman are in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Map of Wisconsin including Lakes Michigan and Superior. Inset includes "N.W. Part of Wiskonsan." |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Immigrant map. |
| 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: | 1842 |
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| Description: | Map reads: "Wisconsin". The map depicts the counties as of 1842 and the various areas of Indian settlements. The scale is twenty miles for every inch. |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Geological map of the mineral region around Lake Superior, including portions of Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois. |
| Date: | 1846 |
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| Description: | A hand-colored map of Wisconsin shows the counties in the state south and east of the Wisconsin and Fox rivers and the locations of Indian lands to the nor... |
| Date: | 1846 |
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| Description: | Drawn two years before Wisconsin entered statehood, this map shows the counties and towns that existed at the time, as well as known rivers and lakes. By 1... |
| 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: | 1842 |
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| Description: | This map shows portions of northern Illinois and Wisconsin surveyed by the map's creation. It shows county lines and university land, and depicts lead and ... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | This hand-colored map shows the township and section grid in southeastern Wisconsin, covering the area west to Sugar River and Four Lakes region and north ... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin was considered part of Michigan Territory until 1836, a year before Michigan entered statehood. Drawn four years before Wisconsin entered stateho... |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin was considered part of Michigan Territory until 1836, a year before Michigan entered statehood. Drawn three years before Wisconsin entered stateh... |
| Date: | 05 1846 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored map of southeastern Wisconsin showing the counties of Dodge, Jefferson, Rock, Walworth, Racine (including modern-day Kenosha County), Waukesha... |
| Date: | 1846 |
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| Description: | This map shows the counties and towns in existence at the time as well as lead and copper mines. |
| Date: | 1847 |
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| Description: | A geological, hand-colored map of Wisconsin north and west of the Wisconsin River, as well as portions of eastern Minnesota and Iowa from the Mississippi t... |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin became the thirtieth state in 1848. Drawn that same year, this map shows township lines, roads, villages, mills, railroads, prairies, swamps, can... |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | This map by Increase Lapham shows the township and range system in southern and eastern Wisconsin as well as along the Wisconsin River in present-day Marat... |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | This map shows the township and range system in southern and eastern Wisconsin as well as along the Wisconsin River in present-day Marathon, Portage, and W... |
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