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| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Wyalusing State Park in the Prairie du Chein vicinity. The Wisconsin River is in the foreground and the Mississippi river can be seen below with distant bl... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | The Passenger Pigeon Monument was designed and built around 1947. It was erected by the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the bridge spanning the Mississippi River in La Crosse. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The bridge spanning the Mississippi River in La Crosse. |
| Date: | 03 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Prairie du Chien showing the Mississippi River in the background. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | This map shows the Wisconsin and Fox River routes in green, and the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal routes in red. Prairie du Chien, Fort Winnebago, Grand C... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | This nine-part map from the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads identifies federal and state highways in Wisconsin by pavement type. County, forest, park, and publ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | This map of La Crosse shows different types of land zoning: residence, multiple dwelling, local business, commercial, light industrial, heavy industrial, w... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | This pictorial map shows the United States west of the Mississippi, including Indian Tribes, historic trails, forts, trading posts, mountain ranges, lakes ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | This map shows surfaces and types of highways. A legend and three county and two local area inset maps are included. The bottom left margin reads: "Traffi... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | This blue line print map shows highways, the scale of traffic volume, and average 24 hour traffic. Also included are inset maps of Appleton, Neenah, and Me... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | This map is comprised of six plates that depict the rout the Sauks and Meskwakis, led by Black Hawk, took through Wisconsin during the Black Hawk War of 18... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | This photocopy plat map represents the relative position and size of the sloughs and islands in the Mississippi River, opposite Prairie du Chien. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A pencil drawing of two men descending a bluff with oxen and a wagon to Winona, Minnesota. There is a church in the town below and the Mississippi River is... |
| Date: | 08 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a coal barge pushed by a stern wheeled steamboat heading upstream from the Mississippi River Lock and Dam No. 9 north of Prairie du Chien,... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Black and white aerial view of La Crosse and the Mississippi River, including Riverside Park, the Black River and La Crosse River. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks along the shorline of the Mississippi River towards the stern wheeled steamboat General Allen towing barges upriver at L... |
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