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Camp Stella on Sand Island, Lake Superior

Date: 1905
Description: Camp Stella looking south toward the Bayfield County shoreline from an Apostle Island.
Map or Atlas

Official Railroad Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1906
Description: Railroad map of Wisconsin.
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Highway Map

Date: 1941
Description: Official highway map of Wisconsin, "the playground of the Midwest," showing the state transportation network prior to World War II.
Map or Atlas

Soils of Wisconsin

Date: 1968
Description: This map shows lakes, rivers and soil types. Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, and portions of Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, and Minnesota are labeled. A legend to...
Map or Atlas

Northern Wisconsin Lakes

Date: 1925
Description: This map shows state trunk highways, county trunk highways, railroads, canoe trails, lakes, and free public camp sites. The map on the reverse also shows a...
Photograph

Shoreline View

Date: 1942
Description: View from Lake Superior looking at the shoreline of Washburn. Houses, buildings, people, cars and trees are visible on shore.
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

Physiographic Diagram of Wisconsin

Date: 1933
Description: This map shows the physical geography and basic geological features of Wisconsin and includes a geological cross-section from Lake Pepin to Lake Michigan a...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Pinery Region

Date: 1935
Description: This map shows Wisconsin’s pinery region. Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Winnebago, Green Bay, the Wisconsin River, and the Mississippi River are label...
Photograph

Squaw Bay Caves

Date: 1931
Description: View of the Squaw Bay Caves, near Cornucopia, with people in a boat off to the far left. The caves were renamed Mawikwe Bay, and Mawikwe is Ojibwe for weep...
Map or Atlas

Rand McNally Official Auto Trails Map : District No. 9, Minnesota, W. Wisconsin

Date: 1923
Description: This map shows trails, some in red, for automobiles. The right margin includes a key of markings as well as Minnesota and Wisconsin Highway signs. Communit...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Section of Hennepin's Map

Date: 1905
Description: A reproduction of the Wisconsin portion of Louis Hennepin's 1698 map showing the location of the Ho-Chunk Tribe, the Hurons, the Illinois as well as other ...
Map or Atlas

Township Map of Wisconsin and Northern Michigan

Date: 1900
Description: A map of Wisconsin, eastern Minnesota and Iowa, northern Iowa, and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, showing railway lines, with those marked with heavy red line...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: This map, which shows the state of Wisconsin in 1895, was published as Rand, McNally & Co.'s New business atlas map of Wisconsin. Railroads, counties, citi...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin Showing the Wisconsin Central Railroad and the Lands Owned by John S. Owen Lumber Company

Date: 1900
Description: A map of Wisconsin, eastern Minnesota and Iowa, and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, showing the rail lines of the Wisconsin Central Railroad are shown in red, ...
Map or Atlas

Business Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1908
Description: A business map of Wisconsin, showing railroads, counties, cities, villages, rivers, and lakes. Additional areas shown in the map include the western portio...
Map or Atlas

Commercial Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1913
Description: A hand-colored map of Wisconsin and portions of eastern Iowa and Minnesota, northern Illinois, and the western part of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, showing ...
Map or Atlas

Resorts of Northern Wisconsin and Michigan

Date: 1914
Description: Two maps of northern Wisconsin counties of Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Chippewa, Douglas, Forest, Iron, Langlade, Lincoln, Oneida, Polk, Price, Sawyer, Tayl...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1914
Description: A hand-colored map of Wisconsin showing the locations of cities and towns, counties, railway lines, the steamship lines in Lake Superior and lake Michigan....
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1918
Description: Map of Wisconsin along with the western portion of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, showing county lines, cities and villages, lakes, streams, and railroads. Po...

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