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| Date: | 1823 |
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| Description: | In 1823 U.S. Army major Stephen H. Long led an expedition of scientific, trade, and military investigation up the Mississippi River and the Red River of th... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Map reads "Our Country" which is accompanied by a sailor with a flag to the left and workers rejoicing under the Constitution and Laws to the right. Across... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | This thematic shows the effects that Lake Michigan has had on Wisconsin mean temperatures in January and July. The map shows counties, some cities, rivers ... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Drawn the last year of the Civil War, this thematic map shows the effects that Lake Michigan has had on Wisconsin temperatures in January and July. The map... |
| Date: | 06 1887 |
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| Description: | A map of southern Wisconsin, from the Illinois state border in the south to Rocky Run, Wisconsin in the north for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, showing th... |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | This map depicts Wisconsin and Michigan territories in 1836. It includes the area from Michigan to the Missouri River and Lake Winnipeg, and it shows the e... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | This map is one of the earliest weather maps of the United States, which traced an 1859 storm across the continent. Manuscript annotations in red ink show ... |
| Date: | 2015 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of algae and mussels covering the wood skeletal frame of the Advance, a schooner built in 1853 and sunk in 1885. Most of the frame i... |
| Date: | 2014 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of pieces of the schooner Advance laying on the haul of the ship at the bottom of Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 11 27 2013 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of the front end of a Kissel car from 1924. It is resting within the steamer Lakeland, which sank in Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 11 25 2013 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of a pile of automobiles and other pieces of cargo that sank with the Lakeland. In the foreground an upside down automobile is resti... |
| Date: | 11 26 2013 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of a pile of broken automobiles resting in the sunken Lakeland. |
| Date: | 11 26 2013 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of metal frames and rubber wheels of automobiles laying in a pile on top of each other within the sunken Lakeland. Part of the upper... |
| Date: | 11 26 2013 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of two automobile frames that were part of the final cargo of the steamer Lakeland A section of the ship's deck is in the background... |
| Date: | 08 05 2013 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of two archeologists surveying a portion of the Lakeland. The divers are using cameras, with three or four strobes attached by an ar... |
| Date: | 06 22 2015 |
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| Description: | Underwater starboard view of the Lakeland. While the ship remains largely intact, it is split in half, with the back end of the ship in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 08 09 2013 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of an automobile hanging off of the ruins of the steamer Lakeland. The wheels are still attached to the car, but most of the outward... |
| Date: | 07 2010 |
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| Description: | Underwater overhead view of the steamer Lakeland" sitting on the floor of Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 06 10 2005 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of algae and mussels living on the engine mount of the sunken Louisiana. To the left, an underwater archeologist is surveying the si... |
| Date: | 06 10 2005 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of an underwater archeologist investigating the drift pins of the Louisiana. Algae and mussels are covering most of the wood of the ... |
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