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Distant View of Clinton across Koshonong Creek

Date: 1874
Description: Elevated view from hill of Clinton, now Rockdale. Three men are in the middle distance, looking east across Koshonong Creek towards a mill dam, bridge and ...
Photograph

Aerial View of Main Street in Town

Date: 1950
Description: Aerial view of main street. There is a bridge with a stream flowing under it in the foreground.
Photograph

Pathfinder Car near Bridge

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Description: The Milwaukee Journal Pathfinder car driving from a road onto a bridge.
Photograph

Stream Swollen with Snowmelt

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Description: The Root River swollen with rainwater and/or snow melt. A recently built duplex housing unit is visible in the background. This picture was likely taken as...
Photograph

Swollen Stream with Bridge

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Description: The Root River, swollen with rainwater and/or snow melt, runs under a bridge on which a man is walking. Recently built houses are visible in the misty back...
Photograph

Reinforcing Stream Bank

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Description: Rocks placed to control the flow of Dale Creek. A house is visible in the background. This picture was likely taken as a study of the water drainage in ear...
Photograph

Empty Stream Bed with Dam

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Description: A man stands on rocks that will dam Dale Creek. This picture was likely taken for a study of the water drainage system in early Greendale.
Poster

Chemins de fer électriques de la Gruyère Travel Poster

Date: 1900
Description: An original colored lithograph advertising the Chemins de fer électriques de la Gruyèr railway in Switzerland. The poster features the artist Anton Reckzi...
Photograph

Stream Bed and Country Road

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Description: View looking north from a covered bridge, including a rocky stream-bed and a tree-lined dirt road with houses and other wooden buildings. Caption reads, "V...
Photograph

Richardson Farm

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Description: The Richardson Farm stands at the far edge of a farm field with a creek running through it and animals grazing. The farmhouse is white and surrounded by tr...
Print

Madison Mobile Homes Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Madison Mobile Homes, with a three-quarter view of a mobile home parked in a clearing near a wooded area on a shoreline, with the slogan "Liv...
Photograph

Bird's-Eye View

Date: 1920
Description: View from low hill of a stream flowing through fields. There are cows in the pasture on the right. In the distance is a bridge, road, and buildings.
Map or Atlas

Map of Iron County, Wisconsin

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Description: A map that shows the Wisconsin Central Railway land grant lands for sale by the Soo Line, the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway. Town sections, lak...
Map or Atlas

Timber and Farm Lands of Ashland

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Description: Map of northern Iron County, Wisconsin, shows town sections and railroads in the towns of Saxon, Kimball, and Gurney. It also includes the area of the La P...
Map or Atlas

Map of Lafayette County, Wisconsin

Date: 1866
Description: A map of Lafayette County, Wisconsin, showing the townships and ranges, sections, towns, villages, stream and rivers, mounds, mineral deposits and the Mine...
Map or Atlas

Oconto County

Date: 1922
Description: This map from the early to mid-20th century shows the township and range system, towns, cities and villages, roads, railroads, schools, churches, cemeterie...
Map or Atlas

Showing the Location of Cities, Villages, Churches, Schools, Town Halls, Cemeteries, Creameries, Railroads, Rivers, Streams, and other Points of Interest [in Outagamie County, Wisconsin]

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Description: This 1907 map of Outagamie County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, railroads, wagon roads, churches, sc...
Map or Atlas

Outagamie County, Wisconsin

Date: 1922
Description: This map of Outagamie County, Wisconsin, from the first half of the 20th century, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, ...
Map or Atlas

Ozaukee County Historic Sites & Land Marks

Date: 1961
Description: This 1961 map of Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, identifies historic sites and landmarks in the county. Cities and villages, roads, and lakes and streams are al...
Map or Atlas

Pierce County Wisconsin

Date: 1922
Description: This map of Pierce County, Wisconsin, from the first half of the 20th century, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, villages, roads, railroa...

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