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| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of the Chicago fire of October 8, 1871. The hand-colored lithograph was published by Currier and Ives. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View of a wind bound fleet of lumber schooners, including the Vega and the Ottawa. This image was copied form a photo in the collections of the Milwaukee P... |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Milwaukee looking east toward Lake Michigan from a bluff, long since graded into a slope, at about 6th Street between Wisconsin Avenue an... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Oconomowoc. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of the city of Manitowoc with a population of 5,168 inhabitants as it appears in 1870, the year the village was granted a city charter by t... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Racine, with an inset of Racine College. |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee looking east toward Lake Michigan from a bluff, long since graded into a slope, at about 6th Street between Wisconsin Avenue a... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee in 1853 details building features and city layout from southwest. Important buildings are numbered in a silhouette drawing bel... |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Map from Drake Expedition, ca. 1585. |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Map from Drake Expedition in Florida, ca. 1585. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Chicago, with ships in the Lake Michigan harbor. |
| Date: | 1632 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin portion of Champlain's 1632 map, augmented since the previous one, for navigation according to the true Meridien, by Sieur de Champlain. The ... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Partial view of billiard hall and Lake Mendota from the Ole Bull Residence, 130 East Gilman Street. Two people on shore are pointing to a sailboat. Later, ... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | The Ludemann's [also spelled Lueddemann] farm had been cultivated since the early 1850s by Mr. Ludemann, "a very pleasant Saxon with his very pleasant wife... |
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| Description: | Aloah Beach on Lake Winnebago. There is a board sidewalk on the left. A sailboat is out on the lake on the right near the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Randall Harrow, manufactured by the Warrior Mower Company. Features a color illustration of a farmer using the harrow in a field. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of the Whiting House with its large harbor and boats. Whiting House is a four-story wood frame Second Empire style hotel standing on the l... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Drawing of and elevated view across water towards the Kendall residence, home of George L. Storer, a businessman in Madison. Three people are in a rowboat,... |
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