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Photograph

La Pointe from Mission Inn

Date: 1900
Description: View of La Pointe, Madeline Island, taken from the Mission Inn.
Photograph

Daniel Angus House

Date: 1900
Description: The house of Captain Angus on the shore of Lake Superior in La Pointe on Madeline Island sometime around 1900. The Angus family came to Madeline Island in ...
Postcard

Superior Shipyards

Date: 1900
Description: The Superior Shipyards showing steamers "Moran", "Northwest" and "Northland. Caption reads: "Ship Yards — McDougall Whaleback. West Superior, Wis."
Postcard

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.
Postcard

Tower Avenue

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of Tower Avenue. Caption reads: "Tower Avenue, Superior, Wis."
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

Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1906
Description: A hand-colored map of Wisconsin identifying the railroads, counties, cities, rivers, and lakes in Wisconsin, eastern Minnesota and Iowa, northern Illinois,...
Map or Atlas

Map of Creameries and Cheese Factories in Wisconsin

Date: 1906
Description: A commercial map of Wisconsin showing the location of creameries and cheese factories in the state. In the lower portion of the map provides the number of ...
Map or Atlas

Ashland County Map

Date: 1905
Description: Map of Ashland County.
Map or Atlas

Plat of Michigan Island and Gull Island, Wisconsin

Date: 1908
Description: A detailed map of Michigan Island and Gull Island in the Apostle Islands group (T51N, R1W, 4 M) that shows sections, landowners, the Michigan Island Lighth...
Map or Atlas

Chart No. 1 of Apostle Islands Including South Coast of Lake Superior from Squaw Bay to Roys Point

Date: 1900
Description: This chart of the northern Apostle Islands and Lake Superior shoreline shows relief by contours and spot heights and depths by contours, gradient tints and...
Map or Atlas

Map of Bayfield County, Wisconsin

Date: 1906
Description: This 1906 map of Bayfield County, Wisconsin, shows towns, sections, cities, villages and post offices, land ownership, wagon roads, railroads, schools, gov...
Map or Atlas

Soil Map, Wisconsin-Minnesota, Superior Sheet

Date: 1904
Description: This 1904 map from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's Bureau of Soils shows the soil types in north-central Douglas County, Wisconsin, and Duluth, Minnesota. ...
Map or Atlas

Official Railroad Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1904
Description: This map shows lakes, railroads, and rivers. Also includes an explanation of railroad lines and mileage and a table showing miles from cities to Milwaukee....
Map or Atlas

Ernest A. Arnold Land Co.'s Sectional Map of Superior & Vicinity Douglas County Wisconsin

Date: 1907
Description: This map of Superior and the vicinity shows selected company properties, railroads, and roads in a portion of Douglas County. The map reads: "Copyrighted 1...
Map or Atlas

How to see Duluth and Superior on the Electric Cars of the Duluth Street Railway

Date: 1909
Description: This map of Duluth and Superior was issued by the Duluth Street Railway Company and shows street railway routes in the cities, as well as lakes, bays, harb...

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