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Surveying

Date: 1969
Description: Three men surveying a point in southwestern Wisconsin.
Photograph

Five Men Surveying Land

Date: 1969
Description: Five men surveying land across a road. They're standing near a barbed wire fence.
Photograph

Erosion in Middleton

Date: 04 1937
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...
Map or Atlas

Town 1 North, Range 1 East, Wisconsin

Date: 
Description: Series 698, General Land Office Survey Plats, vol. 1.
Map or Atlas

Survey of the Neenah (or Fox) River: No. O Rapide Des Pres

Date: 
Description: This map surveyed under the direction of Capt. Thomas J. Cram is one in a series of seven. The map shows part of the Fox River and the beginning of the tow...
Map or Atlas

Survey of the Neenah (or Fox) River: No. 4 Little Chute

Date: 1840
Description: This map surveyed under the direction of Captain Thomas J. Cram is one in a series of seventeen that accompanied Cram's report on the Fox-Wisconsin river s...
Map or Atlas

Survey of the Neenah (or Fox) River: No. 1 Little Kakalau

Date: 1840
Description: This map surveyed under the direction of Captain Thomas J. Cram is one in a series of seventeen that accompanied Cram's report on the Fox-Wisconsin river s...
Map or Atlas

Map of Milwaukee

Date: 1876
Description: Made from U.S. Surveys and from minutes furnished by Jos. S. Buck and Dr. C. Chase. Scale 20 CHs to an inch.
Map or Atlas

Map of New Diggings

Date: 1874
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...
Photograph

Men Laying Rails at Hawkins Mine

Date: 1945
Description: A group of men laying rails at Hawkins Mine while a man in the background is using surveying equipment near the base of a cliff face.
Map or Atlas

Map of the Surveyed Part of Wisconsin Territory

Date: 1835
Description: This map of Wisconsin Territory was compiled by public surveys in 1835; it is limited to modern-day southern Wisconsin. Included are two insets – one of th...
Map or Atlas

Surveyed Part of Wisconsin

Date: 1839
Description: This map shows the portion of Wisconsin south and east of the Wisconsin and Fox rivers. Roads, forts, cities both existing and "planned" and counties are i...
Photograph

Surveying Crew at Sunny Brae Farm

Date: 1970
Description: "Surveying Crew on McArthur Rd. Sunny Brae farm is in background."
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin Showing Progress of Surveys

Date: 1920
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...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Index Map

Date: 1956
Description: A map depicting the for systems of land description in Wisconsin, which include metes and bounds, U.S. System of Rectangular Surveys, Latitude and longitud...
Map or Atlas

Sketch of the Public Surveys in Wisconsin Territory

Date: 1846
Description: A map of Wisconsin and a portion of Minnesota that show the township surveys in progress in portions of the Saint Croix River region and in central Wiscons...
Map or Atlas

Sketch of the Public Surveys in Wisconsin

Date: 1848
Description: Map of Wisconsin and a portion of Minnesota showing the township surveys in progress in portions of the Saint Croix River region and in central Wisconsin a...
Map or Atlas

Sketch of the Public Surveys in Wisconsin and Territory of Minnesota

Date: 10 21 1855
Description: Map of the Wisconsin and the Minnesota Territory showing the status of township surveys in Wisconsin and southeastern Minnesota. The Wisconsin reservation...
Print

H.I. Bliss Letterhead

Date: 
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 ...
Print

T6N R17E, West between 6 and 7

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Description: Field notes taken for T6N R17E between 6 and 7 on the original township survey of Wisconsin.

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