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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of the history of the State of Wisconsin, 1848-1948. Shows a map of Wisconsin with many historical and themed elements. Image was created by w... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | International Trucks advertisement. Cover reads: "If the job calls for a Truck... it calls for an International." A caption indicates that "the truck illus... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Junction Mine and the surrounding neighborhood. |
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| Description: | View down Tennessee Avenue, with the locations of mines marked in the hills in the distance. Men walk past shops on either side of the avenue. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards large mounds of raw material at National Zinc Separating Company plant. Industrial buildings and a railroad car and an au... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across field towards large mounds of raw material at National Zinc Separating Company plant. Industrial buildings are in the background. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Ashland Mine. Railroad tracks and piles of lumber are in the foreground, and chimneys spew smoke from buildings in the background. |
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| Description: | View of a family posed before a pack train, heading toward the mines. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Entrance of the tunnel to the bottom of the shot tower. There is graffiti around the entrance. |
| Date: | 1847 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View from off the road of a mine near Linden. A road sign alerts drivers that the State Truck Highway 39 is one mine away. |
| Date: | 1837 |
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| Description: | This map shows the townships, roads, trails, natural land forms, vegetation, mill sites and lead and copper deposits in the Wisconsin Territory at the time... |
| 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: | 1850 |
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| Description: | This detailed map outlines mid and southern WI county boundaries in bright color, and city/town lines are provided. Other marks include lead mines, copper ... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Map outlines mid and southern Wisconsin county boundaries in blue, and city/town lines are provided. Other marks include mines, plank roads, and railroads. |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Southern two thirds of Wisconsin with county boundaries hand-colored in red. The map displays towns, railroads, plan roads and mines. The scale is ten mile... |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Railroad map outlines mid and southern Wisconsin county boundaries in red, and city/town lines are provided. Other marks include lead mines, copper mines, ... |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | This map shows surveyed counties in blue, yellow, and pink, railroads, plank roads and mines. Lake Michigan, the Mississippi River, other rivers and lakes,... |
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