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Cranberry Warehouse

Date: 09 1934
Description: View of a cranberry marsh and warehouse. In the foreground is a warehouse for the storage of harvested cranberries.
Photograph

Ho-Chunk Child, Dog, and Winter Lodges

Date: 
Description: Ho-Chunk winter lodges among trees, probably a Ho-Chunk encampment at the cranberry marsh. There are large, cut logs in between two lodges. A small Ho-Chun...
Photograph

Mill Pond

Date: 
Description: A peaceful view of a pond and mill, featuring a small dog sitting in a boat, which rests on the shore.
Map or Atlas

1858 Map of Racine County, Wisconsin

Date: 1972
Description: This map on 5 sheets features a title page sheet with business directory and shows section numbers, roads, railroads, saw mills, churches, blacksmith shops...
Map or Atlas

Map of Southern Wisconsin

Date: 1847
Description: A hand-colored map that shows the area south and east of the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers, as well as a few landmarks just north of that area. The township gri...
Photograph

Men on Gang Plow in Horicon Marsh

Date: 09 08 1914
Description: Five men in hats and jackets, some holding the levers on a gang plow pulled by a Rumley tractor, pose for a group portrait. One man in work clothes stands ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Grant County, Wisconsin

Date: 1857
Description: Relief shown by hachures. "Lith. of Ed. Mendel, Chicago." Shows townships and sections, rivers, roads, railroads, houses, flour mills, saw mills, furnaces...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Milwaukee Bay Showing the Site of the Proposed Harbor

Date: 1836
Description: This map is pen-and-ink on paper and shows marshlands, rivers, creeks, a quarry, and a few roads.
Map or Atlas

Map of Monroe County Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: Map shows township borders, marshes, pine timber, roads, railroads, and mills. The townships are are shown in blue/green, pink, and yellow. The map include...
Map or Atlas

Timber and Farming Lands Map

Date: 1908
Description: Title at top: "G.F. Sanborn Company Timber and Farming Lands." Map shows acreages, roads, railroads, and swamps in parts of Vilas and Oneida counties.
Photograph

Looking North From Bluff

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Description: Elevated view from bluff overlooking the railroad tracks and yard along the Mississippi River. A group of men are gathered on the track near stacks of lumb...
Map or Atlas

Map of the States of Michigan and Wisconsin, Embracing a Great Part of Iowa and Illinois and the Whole Mineral Region : With a Chart of the Lakes : Exhibiting the Sections, the Geological Formations, and the General Topography

Date: 1858
Description: This map of Wisconsin and Minnesota shows proposed railroads, copper mines, marshes, villages, mills, reefs, notes about shorelines, and references to mini...
Map or Atlas

Map of Rib Lake

Date: 1979
Description: A color map of Rib Lake, Wisconsin.
Postcard

Fisherman's Shacks in Door County

Date: 1940
Description: Color enhanced postcard view of fisherman's shacks on the outlet of Logan's creek on the shore of Lake Michigan.
Map or Atlas

Military Reserve : The Following Are the Boundaries of the Lands Which Have Been Occupied by the Troops of the U.S. at Fort Howard, Green Bay

Date: 1900
Description: This photostat of a manuscript map originally drawn in 1829 shows landownership, buildings, including Fort Howard and U.S. sawmill, swamps, public barns an...
Map or Atlas

Zoning Map, City of Menasha, Wisconsin

Date: 1931
Description: This map shows heavy industrial districts (yellow), commercial and light manufacturing districts (red), and residential districts (white) as well as a plat...
Photograph

Reclaimed Marsh Land on a University of Wisconsin Farm

Date: 06 30 1895
Description: A man is standing in the right foreground near a tall plant, perhaps corn. In the center is a square-shaped pond with high banks. A man is in the backgroun...
Map or Atlas

A Map of Louisiana and of the River Mississipi

Date: 1720
Description: Map of North America from from the Rio Grande to the Atlantic Ocean, showing boundaries, the colonies, cities, settlements, mines, forts, Native American l...
Map or Atlas

Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi Avec les Colonies Anglaises

Date: 1782
Description: Map of America covering the Rio Grande to the Atlantic Ocean, showing boundaries, the colonies, cities, settlements, Native American lands and villages, m...
Map or Atlas

A Map of the Northern and Middle States: Comprehending the Western Territory and the British Dominions in North America from the Best Authorities

Date: 1792
Description: Map of the United States east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River. It shows the borders between the north eastern states, Canada and the U...

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