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| Description: | Commercial buildings, roads, cars parked in lots, as seen from the snow-covered lawn of the Village Hall. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View from lawn of curved residential street lined with recently constructed housing and lampposts. A car sits in a driveway of a house on the left, and fur... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View up residential street with newly constructed houses, young trees and lampposts. Men in suits and hats walk along the sidewalk. A speed limit sign is o... |
| Date: | 07 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Cars park in a new parking lot at the former site of Washington School at 217 North Broom Street. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Map shows townships and sections, landownership and acreages, railroads, and roads. The map was compiled by the civil engineer and city surveyor agent H.I.... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | This is a zoning map of Wauwatosa with a key of districts including agricultural, resident, business, commercial, and industrial. The map features labeled ... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | This map of La Crosse is accompanied by other plats of subdivision of the city. The relief is shown by hachures. The additions include: Rudolf Gripps Addit... |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Vieth's Park subdivision on the north shore of Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 01 31 1964 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of University Hill Farms area which has grown from a cow pasture to a square-mile housing and business area. 4,000 people live in 750 single-fa... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | This photostat map was probably originally created in 1835 and shows in addition to private claims, mills, roads, and trails. Green Bay and the Fox River a... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | This map covers parts of Minnesota, Iowa, and South Dakota and advertised 1,000,000 acres of land available. Communities, roads, and railroad lines are lab... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A map of Lake Geneva, including the villages of Williams Bay and Fontana, and a portion of the city of Lake Geneva. The Chicago and Northwestern Railway li... |
| Date: | 12 16 1964 |
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| Description: | View of a crane about to swing a wrecking ball into a building wall at the 30 W. Mifflin Street and Carroll Street corner of the Square as a crowd is looki... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | This blueprint manuscript map shows land owned by Green Bay & Mississippi Canal Co., Meade, Vilas, Patten, and Hewitt. Streets and the Fox River are labele... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | This bird's-eye-view map shows plat of area, numbered blocks and lots, local streets, roads, parks, golf club, schools, buildings, landscaping, and part of... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | This blueprint map shows land parcels, parks, blocks, and streets in the region north to Atwood Avenue, south to Lake Monona, west to Evergreen Avenue, and... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | This blueprint plat map shows the plan of lots and streets on a Madison hill south of Lake Monona. Includes annotations showing land prices in pencil. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | This map shows streets and lots with prices available through the Madison Realty Company. Some of the plats include legends. The areas include: Brooks' Add... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | This map shows lands owned by the American Immigration Company (red) and the Homeseekers Land Company (green). The map also shows highways, roads, railroad... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | This cadastral map shows lots, streets, and Pell Lake. The back of the map includes a large advertisement for the Pell Lake Addition summer home lots. |
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