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Vieau Trading Post

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Description: Vieau trading post.
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Monona Bay in Madison

Date: 1904
Description: Monona Bay from the railroad trestle looking southwest, close to where the railroad tracks cross North Shore Drive, (now Brittingham Park), with old houses...
Photograph

Mill Pond

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Description: A peaceful view of a pond and mill, featuring a small dog sitting in a boat, which rests on the shore.
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Boating at Manasquan Beach

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Description: Elevated view of a group of children, infants, and adults sitting in rowboats in the water at Manasquan Beach. In the background are rows of dwellings, and...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Milwaukee Bay Showing the Site of the Proposed Harbor

Date: 1836
Description: This map is pen-and-ink on paper and shows marshlands, rivers, creeks, a quarry, and a few roads.
Photograph

Looking North From Bluff

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Description: Elevated view from bluff overlooking the railroad tracks and yard along the Mississippi River. A group of men are gathered on the track near stacks of lumb...
Map or Atlas

Map of the States of Michigan and Wisconsin, Embracing a Great Part of Iowa and Illinois and the Whole Mineral Region : With a Chart of the Lakes : Exhibiting the Sections, the Geological Formations, and the General Topography

Date: 1858
Description: This map of Wisconsin and Minnesota shows proposed railroads, copper mines, marshes, villages, mills, reefs, notes about shorelines, and references to mini...
Postcard

Lake Metonga

Date: 1905
Description: Photographic postcard view of Lake Metonga, with marshy area in foreground. Caption reads: "On Famous Lake Metonga, Crandon, Wis."
Postcard

Fisherman's Shacks in Door County

Date: 1940
Description: Color enhanced postcard view of fisherman's shacks on the outlet of Logan's creek on the shore of Lake Michigan.
Photograph

Menominee Man Standing in a Canoe

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Description: View across water of a Menominee man standing in a canoe in a marsh. He is holding a paddle in his hand. Behind him on the left is another canoe with three...
Photograph

A Girl at a Lake

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Description: View through trees looking down towards a girl standing on a shoreline looking across a lake. A marshy area is along the far shoreline.
Photograph

Northern Lakes Park

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Description: View from shoreline over a marshy area towards a lake at Northern Lakes Park. There is a tree-covered shoreline in the far background. There may be an isl...
Painting

Man Hunting at Cherokee Marsh

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Description: Photograph of a watercolor painting of a hunter walking in tall grass among trees by the Johnson duck shack at old Cherokee Marsh.
Map or Atlas

Delaware, from the Best Authorities

Date: 1795
Description: Map of Delaware showing counties, cities, roads, swamps, lakes, and rivers. Numerous features within the Delaware Bay include banks, shoals, and oyster be...
Map or Atlas

A Map of the Seat of War in the Southern part of Virginia, North Carolina, and the Northern Part of South Carolina

Date: 1781
Description: Map of North and South Carolina and Virginia towards the end of the Revolutionary War. It shows borders, counties, cities, court houses, bridges, chapels, ...
Map or Atlas

The State of South Carolina from the Best Authorities

Date: 1795
Description: Map of South Carolina showing the precincts, cities, towns, Native American villages (marked with a triangle), courthouses, roads, mountains, swamps, islan...
Painting

Man Hunting at Cherokee Marsh

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Description: Watercolor painting of a hunter walking in tall grass among trees by the Johnson duck shack at old Cherokee Marsh.
Map or Atlas

Plan of New Orleans the Capital of Louisiana

Date: 1761
Description: Map of New Orleans with north oriented towards the upper right corner. It shows the land around the city, the Mississippi River, anchorages, roads leading ...
Photograph

A Moose

Date: 1914
Description: A moose grazing in Mud Lake, near McFarland Lake.
Photograph

A Canoe on Shore

Date: 08 1916
Description: Elevated view looking down at a canoe on the shoreline of the Chippewa River as The Gang takes a well-earned rest.

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