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| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Ore dock of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad, with a pile of logs in the foreground and docked ships in the background. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View of the ore dock of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad. Large logs, buildings and a railroad bridge are in the foreground. |
| 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: | 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,... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | This map shows the township survey grid and identifies counties, named towns, rivers, lakes, railroads, plank roads, mines, and the Menomonee Reservation. ... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | This map, which includes eastern Iowa, northern Illinois and a portion of Michigan's Upper peninsula, shows the township survey grid and identifies countie... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | A map of Lafayette County, Wisconsin, showing the townships and ranges, sections, towns, villages, stream and rivers, mounds, mineral deposits and the Mine... |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | This early to mid-19th century map shows the township and range system, sections, landownership, furnaces, lead mines, copper mines, and roads in the vicin... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | This late 19th century map shows mining companies' lands and miscellaneous properties in the towns of Cady and Springfield in southeastern Saint Croix Coun... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | This map of Ashland County, Wisconsin, which at the time included part of present-day Iron County, also covers portions of Vilas County, Wisconsin, then pa... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | This map shows mining properties in the Gogebic Range between Atkins Lake, in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, on the west and Lake Gogebic, Michigan, on the east... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | This 1889 map of Douglas County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, roads, existing and proposed railroads... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | This 1892 map of Douglas County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, roads, railroads, trails, lakes and st... |
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