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Experimental 8-16(?) Tractor

Date: 1916
Description: Man pulling wagons through water with an experimental 8-16(?) tractor with six wheels.
Postcard

Old Light House at Long Tail Point

Date: 1910
Description: Caption reads: "Old Light House at Long Tail Point, Green Bay, Wis." Built in 1859. A marshy area is in the foreground, and a long pier leads to the new li...
Photograph

Pauqette Monument

Date: 1925
Description: The Pierre Pauquette monument located at the easterm terminus of the Wauona Trail. Erected by the Wau-bun Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revoluti...
Photograph

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.
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

Peninsula State Park, Door County, Wisconsin

Date: 1916
Description: This Wisconsin Conservation Commission map from 1916 shows Peninsula State Park in the Town of Gibraltar, Door County, Wisconsin. Depicted are open and pla...
Map or Atlas

Peninsula State Park, Door County, Wisconsin

Date: 1916
Description: This version of a 1916 Wisconsin Conservation Commission map shows Peninsula State Park in the Town of Gibraltar, Door County, Wisconsin. Depicted are open...
Map or Atlas

Agricultural and Dairy Lands in Reliable Wisconsin

Date: 1914
Description: This early 20th century map shows the township and range system, sections, railroads, roads, lakes, wetlands, and streams in the western Sawyer County town...
Map or Atlas

Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation

Date: 1974
Description: This 1968 map identifies resorts in the Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation region of Wisconsin, covering parts of Iron, Vilas, Oneida, and Price counties. ...
Map or Atlas

Map of a Portion of the Menomonic Iron Range Situated in the Northeastern Part of Wisconsin

Date: 1968
Description: This map is ink and color on printed grid. Shows geology, portage trails, timber type, some landownership, hydrology, and marshes in part of Florence Count...
Map or Atlas

Map of Forest County, Wis.

Date: 1908
Description: Map shows swamps, windfalls, roads and railroads. Status of some land marked (O, S, X) but lacks explanation.
Map or Atlas

Racine County

Date: 1975
Description: This map shows settlers, Indian trails, roads, marshes, and forests as they appeared in 1800-1840. "A bicentennial map of Racine County for the benefit of ...
Map or Atlas

Suggestive Plan for Madison, a Model City

Date: 1910
Description: Shows existing and proposed parks, railroads, and marshes in a color coded key. "Contour interval 20 feet." Lake Wingra, Lake Mendota, and Lake Monona are ...
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.
Map or Atlas

New Auburn Topographical Map

Date: 1975
Description: This standard U.S.G.S. topographic map was annotated by civil engineer and railroad historian James P. Kaysen to show the location of existing and defunct ...
Map or Atlas

University of Wisconsin Arboretum & Wild Life Refuge at Madison, Wisconsin

Date: 1932
Description: This map shows local streets, section lines, Nakoma Country Club, part of Lake Forest, and part of Lake Wingra. The map includes a legend showing areas of ...
Photograph

Hunters on the Pond

Date: 1910
Description: View across water towards a group of seven men posing on a dock in front of a small hunting shack in the middle of a marsh. Ducks hang on stringers attache...
Map or Atlas

Map of Mosinee

Date: 1982
Description: Color map. "Topography by photogrammetric methods from aerial photographs taken 1963. Revised from aerial photographs taken 1978. Field checked 1979. Map e...
Map or Atlas

Map of Rib Lake

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

Greetings From Cumberland, Wisconsin

Date: 1950
Description: Aerial view of the Island City surrounded by the waters of Beaver Dam Lake, and by a vacation and recreation area that includes some fifty lakes within a r...

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