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Fitchburg Depot

Date: 1923
Description: Railway depot and railyard. Caption reads: "Depot and Yards Fitchburg, Wis."
Postcard

Ore Docks

Date: 1920
Description: Caption reads: "Mammoth Ore Docks, Ashland, Wis." A building and roads are in the foreground. Several ore ships can be seen.
Photograph

Railroad Crossing with Rubber Paving

Date: 1925
Description: View of the railroad crossing where rubber paving was used for the first time in the United States. Caption at top reads: "First Rubber Crossing in U.S. S....
Map or Atlas

Railroad Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1921
Description: Railroad map of Wisconsin.
Photograph

The Baldwin Lumber Co.

Date: 1920
Description: Aerial view of the Baldwin Lumber Company, which sits next to a river. The main building consists of two long, rectangular structures that sit perpendicula...
Photograph

Massillon Iron and Steel Works

Date: 1920
Description: Elevated view of Massillon Iron and Steel Works, which rolled its first sheet of steel in 1909. Caption reads: "Massillon Iron & Steel Co., Massillon, Ohio...
Map or Atlas

Map of Verona

Date: 1926
Description: A map of Verona in Dane County.
Photograph

Depot and Yards

Date: 1925
Description: View down railroad tracks of a locomotive pulling into a railroad depot and yards. The depot is a two-story building. Two wagons are parked near the depot ...
Photograph

VIew from B. & O. Station

Date: 1925
Description: View from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station, established in 1830. The city's dwellings and establishments can be seen on a hillside from the railroa...
Map or Atlas

Map of Portions of Wisconsin and Minnesota

Date: 1928
Description: Map of portions of Wisconsin and Minnesota between Lake Superior and Mississippi River, showing railroads and military road.
Map or Atlas

Northern Forest State Park : Vilas County - Wisconsin

Date: 1926
Description: This Wisconsin Conservation Commission map from the 1920s shows roads, railroads, campsites, lookout towers, and privately owned lands in Northern Forest S...
Map or Atlas

Shawano County, Wisconsin

Date: 1920
Description: This map shows the township and range system, sections, schools, churches, cemeteries, town halls, roads, railroads, and lakes and streams in Shawano Count...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Southern Part of Bayfield County, Wisconsin

Date: 1920
Description: This manuscript map of southern Bayfield County, Wisconsin, covers the towns of Cable and Drummond and portions of Grandview and Namekagon. Shown are the t...
Map or Atlas

State Park Devil's Lake Wisconsin : Course in Plane Table Surveying

Date: 1923
Description: This topographical map of Devil's Lake State Park, Sauk County, Wisconsin, is based on 1922-1923 surveys of the area by the University of Wisconsin Summer ...
Map or Atlas

Map showing the Utilization of Land in the Service Area of Montfort, Wisconsin, in its Relation to Conditions of Slope, Soil, Drainage and Roads

Date: 1928
Description: Shows different types of roads, railroads, schools, churches, farmsteads, cheese factories, mine shafts, old surface workings, streams, old sulphur pits, a...
Map or Atlas

Greetings from Madison, Wisconsin

Date: 1928
Description: Illustrated map of points of interest, including University buildings, parks, athletic venues, fraternity and sorority houses, and state buildings.
Map or Atlas

Map of a Portion of Marinette County Wisconsin

Date: 1920
Description: Map shows townships and sections, landownership and acreages, roads, and railroads in southwest portion of Marinette County. Sections of the map are in ye...
Map or Atlas

Summit Township, Waukesha County, Wisconsin

Date: 1925
Description: This map shows township sections, roads, railroads, and lakes. The map also features extensive manuscript annotations noting landownership in pencil. Stamp...
Map or Atlas

Map of Ashland, Ashland Co., Wis.

Date: 1924
Description: This map is pen, pencil, and watercolor on paper and shows land ownership by name, local streets, railroads, and part of Chequamegon Bay. The map includes ...
Map or Atlas

Index Map, University of Wisconsin

Date: 1920
Description: This blue print map and blue line print copy mounted on cloth shows land ownership by name, campus buildings, local streets, railroads, and part of Lake Me...

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