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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

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...
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...
Print

H.I. Bliss Letterhead

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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 ...
Map or Atlas

Township No. 4, Range No. 5, West 4th Mer. (N.W. Ter.)

Date: 1832
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...
Map or Atlas

Map of Madison, Wisconsin

Date: 1873
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...
Photograph

Digging a Ditch and Laying Drain Tile

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Description: View of a crew surveying land, digging a ditch, and laying drain tile.
Postcard

O.P. Camp McCoy

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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."
Map or Atlas

Plat of a Survey Made for Joseph J. Porlier

Date: 09 20 1836
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...
Map or Atlas

Town of St. Lawrence, [Wis.]

Date: 11 1836
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...
Map or Atlas

Sketch of Primary Triangulation, Lake Ontario

Date: 07 01 1876
Description: This map shows Lake Ontario, and a portion of Lake Erie and Oneida Lake. Towns surrounding these lakes in Canada and New York are labeled. A key to former ...
Map or Atlas

Sketch of Primary Triangulation, Lake Erie

Date: 07 01 1876
Description: This map shows towns, railroads, and rivers in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario that surround Lake Erie. A key to completed and uncomple...

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