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Map of Sheboygan Wisconsin

Date: 1914
Description: This map shows Sheboygan in 1914. The top of the map has the date of "NOV 17 1916" stamped in red ink. The map shows numbered plots and labeled streets, an...
Map or Atlas

Milwaukee-Downer College-Wisconsin

Date: 1927
Description: Color map, hand-drawn with comic figures engaged in various activities throughout map. Bordered by the river on the left and Lake Michigan on the right, in...
Print

Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee in 1853

Date: 1937
Description: Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee in 1853 details building features and city layout from southwest. Important buildings are numbered in a silhouette drawing bel...
Postcard

Manitowoc, The Gateway between the East and the West

Date: 1905
Description: Bird's-eye view of Manitowoc on the shores of Lake Michigan. A map of the northeastern part of the United States at the top indicates Manitowoc's location ...
Photograph

Aerial View of Green Bay

Date: 1925
Description: Aerial view of Green Bay, including the Jorgensen-Blesch Company building and two bridges.
Photograph

Aerial View of Shoreline

Date: 1920
Description: Aerial view of with bridges, river, and shoreline.
Photograph

Harbor with Cargo Ships

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of east Green Bay harbor with cargo ships, W.W. Cagill Co., and other various industries.
Postcard

Harbor Entrance

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of the harbor entrance. Caption reads: "Harbor Entrance, Green Bay, Wis."
Map or Atlas

Official Railroad Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1906
Description: Railroad map of Wisconsin.
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Highway Map

Date: 1941
Description: Official highway map of Wisconsin, "the playground of the Midwest," showing the state transportation network prior to World War II.
Photograph

Aerial View of Town

Date: 1950
Description: An aerial view of town, showing a major industrial area.
Photograph

Sturgeon Bay

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of various buildings with Sturgeon Bay in the background.
Map or Atlas

Relief map of Wisconsin accompanying Bulletin XXXVI

Date: 1910
Description: Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, by Lawrence Martin reproduced from a model of the state prepared by W.O. Hotchkiss and F.T. Thwaites and m...
Map or Atlas

Milwaukee Quadrangle

Date: 1906
Description: Polyconic projection. Map made from surveys without spirit level control. Henry Gannett, Chief Topographer. Topography by Van H. Manning and Nat. Tyler, Jr...
Map or Atlas

Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company

Date: 1916
Description: Southeastern Wisconsin which lies east of Whitewater and south of Port Washington.
Photograph

Aerial View of Milwaukee

Date: 1938
Description: Aerial view of rivers, with Lake Michigan in upper right, train yards, and highway in lower left.
Photograph

Milwaukee Harbor

Date: 1940
Description: Aerial view of city, river and harbor. Two smokestacks are on either side of the river mouth.
Map or Atlas

Official Highway Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1932
Description: This map includes a distance table, text, and insets maps of, Superior, Ashland, Marinette, Green Bay, Appleton, Manitowoc, Oshkosh, Fond Du Lac, Janesvill...
Postcard

Racine Harbor

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Racine, Wis. in 1850." Artist's rendering of the view of the harbor with sailing ships, sailboats, rowboats and canoes. The Main Stre...
Photograph

Aerial View of Wisconsin Steel Works

Date: 1970
Description: Aerial view of International Harvester's Wisconsin Steel Works, with a river and Lake Michigan in the background.

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