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Map or Atlas

South Town Addition to Park Falls

Date: 07 07 1915
Description: Ink on tracing cloth. Includes signed certifications from the surveyor, notary public, and Wisconsin Realty Company. From the E.P. Sherry papers relating t...
Map or Atlas

Topography, Wisconsin, Gogebic Iron Range

Date: 1921
Description: Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Includes inset location map. "Contour interval 10 feet." "Advance sheet, subject to correction." "Surveyed in 19...
Historical Object

Burt's Solar Compass

Date: 
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...
Photograph

Don Reed and a Tellurometer

Date: 07 14 1958
Description: This is a Tellurometer, a microwave surveying instrument. The operator is Don Reed, field man for Alster and Associates, Washington, D.C., which completed ...
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

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

O.P. Camp McCoy

Date: 
Description: Photographic postcard view of a group of surveyors working on a hilltop at Camp McCoy. Caption reads: "O. P. Camp McCoy, Sparta, Wis."
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

Railroad Surveying Party

Date: 07 01 1871
Description: Railroad surveying party in camp somewhere north of Green Bay. The men were surveyors for the Chicago & Northwestern railroad extension.
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...
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,...
Document

Surveyor's Note, Village of Dunbarton

Date: 1882
Description: Note from Albert Pool, surveyor for the village of Dunbarton in Lafayette County, as appears on the reverse of the Village of Dunbarton plat map. Pool cert...
Book or Pamphlet

Western Wheeled Scraper Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1886
Description: Front cover featuring illustrations of wheeled scrapers, drag scrapers, railroad plows and road graders.
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 ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Pekatolica

Date: 1836
Description: This map is ink and watercolor on paper and shows a plat of a paper city (a city planned but never built). Some streets and the Pekatolica River are labele...
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

Map of the Joseph Dessert Lumber Co’s Addition to Mosinee

Date: 1899
Description: This map is ink on tracing cloth and shows lot and block numbers and dimensions, streets, the high school park, and survey monuments. The map is oriented ...
Map or Atlas

Plat of Menomonie, Dunn County, Wisconsin

Date: 1859
Description: This plat map is pen on paper and shows numbered blocks and lots, local streets, and section lines. Also included is text on survey certifications.

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