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Surveyor at the Construction Site of World Trade Center

Date: 1969
Description: A surveyor conducts work at the construction of the World Trade Center. He is at work before the building located at 210 Washington Street.
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Surveying

Date: 1969
Description: Three men surveying a point in southwestern Wisconsin.
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Five Men Surveying Land

Date: 1969
Description: Five men surveying land across a road. They're standing near a barbed wire fence.
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Land Economic Inventory Mapping Crew

Date: 
Description: Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory mapping crew starting out in the snow for instruction.
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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...
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Erecting Pile Driver for Railroad Extension to Dam Site

Date: 1911
Description: Workers erecting a steam driven pile driver while others survey for the railroad extension from the village of Prairie du Sac to the dam site on the Wiscon...
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A.L. Webster Surveying a Field

Date: 1920
Description: A.L. Webster takes notes in a notebook while using tools to do surveying work in a field. Another man stands holding a rod in the background near what appe...
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Surveying Crew at Sunny Brae Farm

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

Representation of Ancient Artificial Mounds as They are Located Upon the S.W. 1/4 of the S.W. 1/4 of Section No. 5 in T10N of R7E

Date: 1850
Description: This 1850 survey by William H. Canfield shows the mounds near Wiegands Bay on the Wisconsin River in the Town of Merrimac, Sauk County, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Digging a Ditch and Laying Drain Tile

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

U.S. Army Engineer Corps Topographer

Date: 1918
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...
Photograph

U.S. Army Engineer Corps Topographer

Date: 1918
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 ...
Photograph

Land Survey Corners Marked

Date: 02 02 1960
Description: The Madison Redevelopment Authority joined in the city's program of locating and permanently marking land survey corners in the Madison area. Here they mar...
Map or Atlas

Village of Dunbarton

Date: 1882
Description: Plat map of the village of Dunbarton, received by the Lafayette County Register's Office on September 22, 1892. Certification by the surveyor, Albert Pool,...
Photograph

Surveying Class Practicing in front of Science Hall

Date: 1900
Description: A class of engineering students practicing surveying in front of Science Hall, located on the University of Wisconsin (Madison) campus. Eleven engineering ...
Drawing

The Great Bird and Other Effigy Mounds

Date: 1850
Description: Diagrams of four effigy mounds surveyed by Increase A. Lapham and W.H. Canfield in 1850. No. 1 is an unidentified animal shape, No. 2 consists of two linea...
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of Milwaukee

Date: 1880
Description: A map of Milwaukee which includes a city street guide.

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