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| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a group of Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory workers. John Bordner is in the center of the top row. Stanta Bordner is beside him. Uppe... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Probably Native Americans receiving instructions on compass use for Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory. |
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| Description: | Person's hands, one with with wedding ring on left hand, using a ruler, pencil, and protractor to draw a land cover map for Wisconsin Land Economic Invento... |
| Date: | 04 23 1937 |
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| Description: | Sand barrens being used for poor crops. Note on back of print reads: "This should be in timber." |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory mapping crew starting out in the snow for instruction. |
| Date: | 04 1937 |
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| Description: | From back of print: "Dane County, Town of Middleton, north 1/2 section of section 17 looking SW from a hill across the valley showing erosion and stump pas... |
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| Description: | Series 698, General Land Office Survey Plats, vol. 1. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Map of New Diggings — inset map in bottom right corner of "Benton & New Diggings" map, on page 11 of "Atlas of Lafayette County Wisconsin," a collect... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | This map identifies the areas of the state that had been geologically surveyed or topographically surveyed, or both, as well as portions of the state still... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of H.I. Bliss, a real estate agent, civil engineer, and county surveyor in La Crosse, Wisconsin. On the left a group of three men are surveying ... |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | A hand-drawn map showing the survey of Township number 4, Range number 5, West Fourth Principal Meridian, which is parts of the present day towns of Glen H... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | This topographical map of Devil's Lake State Park, Sauk County, Wisconsin, is based on 1922-1923 surveys of the area by the University of Wisconsin Summer ... |
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| Description: | A brass solar compass, invented by William Austin Burt and built by William J. Young. It was used to survey lands in Wisconsin and surrounding areas during... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | This map shows lots and blocks, additions and subdivisions, and large-scale landownership. The map is oriented with north to the upper right. The map is fr... |
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| Description: | View of a crew surveying land, digging a ditch, and laying drain tile. |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of a group of surveyors working on a hilltop at Camp McCoy. Caption reads: "O. P. Camp McCoy, Sparta, Wis." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of a U.S. Army Engineer topographer wearing skis while in the process of surveying land. The engineer is standing next to a barbed wire obstac... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of a U.S. Army Engineer topographer wearing skis while using a tripod stand to write. The engineer is standing next to a barbed wire obstacle ... |
| Date: | 09 20 1836 |
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| Description: | This map is ink and watercolor on paper and is an unnamed plat. Green Bay is labeled and the plat is labeled "Section 22." One road is labeled "Road to Nav... |
| Date: | 11 1836 |
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| Description: | This map is pen-and-ink on paper and is a plat of a paper city on the Wisconsin River, in what is now the Town of Dekorra. The map shows lot and block numb... |
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