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Aerial View of West Side

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Aerial view of west side, looking south along Glenway Street. Visible are the reservoir, Lake Wingra, Forest Hill and Resurrection Cemetery, Hoyt Park. Maj...
Photograph

Aerial Photograph of West Side

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Looking north along Glenway Street. Visible are the reservoir, Hoyt and Quarry Parks, Resurrection and Forest Hill Cemeteries, Rentschler Greenhouses, Fore...
Photograph

Aerial View of West Side

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Looking southeast across Speedway Road. Visible are the reservoir on Glenway Street, Hoyt Park, Resurrection and Forest Hill cemeteries, Glenway Golf cours...
Photograph

Aerial View of West Side

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Looking east along Regent Street with snow on the ground. Visible are Lake Wingra, Monona Bay, railroad causeway across Monona, Lake Mendota, Hoyt Park, We...
Postcard

At the Foot of Buffalo Lake

Date: 1904
Description: A view looking west over water toward the Fox River dam at Montello. There is granite riprap on the left. A boat with a small sail is in the background. T...
Photograph

Scenic View at Augusta

Date: 1929
Description: Elevated view of a man-made dam. Water pours from the dam into a reservoir creating a waterfall.
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Indian Trails Map

Date: 1930
Description: This map shows Indian trails through Wisconsin counties. The trail are in red ink. Lake Michigan, Green Bay, Lake Superior, and the Wisconsin River are lab...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Transportation Map : Highways, Railroads, Canals, Air Lanes, and Dredged Channels

Date: 1939
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...
Map or Atlas

Map of Flambeau Reservoir

Date: 1941
Description: This is map one of three maps that show trails, roads and fire lanes, utilities, resorts, submerged lakes, vegetation, flowage right lands, and timber righ...
Map or Atlas

Map Showing Reservoirs Operated by Wisconsin Valley Improvement Co. : Exhibit "N"

Date: 1987
Description: This map shows reservoirs, drainage areas, and parts of of Lincoln, Langlade, Forest, Oneida, and Vilas counties. Includes 1 inset map of corrections for R...
Map or Atlas

Map of Flambeau Reservoir

Date: 1941
Description: This is map two of a set of three and shows boundaries and flowage right lands in red ink. A legend in the lower right corner includes a legend of symbols ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Flambeau Reservoir

Date: 1941
Description: This is map three of a set of three, and shows trails, roads and fire lanes, utilities, resorts, submerged lakes, vegetation, flowage right lands, and timb...
Map or Atlas

Plat of Sections 17-18-19 & 20, T.31N. R.6W., Including the Recorded Plats of Cornell, Being the Property to be Incorporated within the Village of Cornell, Chippewa County, Wisconsin and Containing 2338.94 Acres

Date: 1912
Description: This blueprint manuscript map shows landownership, mills, railroad, churches, public buildings, the old cemetery, and the Chippewa River and Reservoir. The...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin River Headwaters Reservoir System

Date: 2013
Description: This map shows hydroelectric dams, natural-lake and man-made reservoirs, the Wisconsin River and its tributaries, and the Wisconsin River Drainage Basin. T...
Map or Atlas

Water Resources Development by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Wisconsin

Date: 01 01 1959
Description: This map shows many of the rivers, dams, bays, harbors, lakes, and canals. It includes an index of authorized federal project, both for navigation and floo...
Photograph

Coal Dock

Date: 08 1940
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,...
Photograph

Gordon Dam

Date: 1940
Description: Aerial view, looking upstream, of water flowing through a dam. On the reverse of the print is written: "Dam built by WPA on site of old logging dam on the ...
Photograph

Picnic

Date: 07 1939
Description: Three unidentified women, two wearing wide-legged slacks, are supervising a group of children around a stone fireplace in Council Grounds State Forest (now...

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