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Dane County Map

Date: 1861
Description: Drawn the first year of the Civil War, this colored 1861 map of Dane County shows its towns, cities and lakes. It includes insets of the wards of Madison a...
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Bird's-Eye View of Wausau

Date: 1879
Description: This map is a bird's-eye view of Wausau, the County Seat of Marathon County. The map features an index of points of interest.
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Crawford County Map of Lead District

Date: 1829
Description: Photoprint of Crawford County lead district map.
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Currents Through History : A Canoe Guide to the Lower Wisconsin River

Date: 1991
Description: This canoe guide depicts the Wisconsin River from just north of Prairie du Sac to near Spring Green. Landmarks and points of interest are identified and de...
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Township Map of Wisconsin and Northern Michigan

Date: 1900
Description: A map of Wisconsin, eastern Minnesota and Iowa, northern Iowa, and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, showing railway lines, with those marked with heavy red line...
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Plat of Newport

Date: 1854
Description: This map is ink and watercolor on tracing cloth and shows lot and block numbers, streets, a park, and depots. Some lots are colored red or blue and some in...
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Sinsinawa City, Wisconsin Territory : Situated on the South East Side of the Mound of the Same Name Near the River Mississippi.

Date: 1835
Description: Plat for a proposed Sinsinawa City (never built), in Grant County, Wis. When it became clear in the mid-1830s that Wisconsin Territory would be established...
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Sauk County, Wisconsin

Date: 1912
Description: This outline map of Sauk County, Wisconsin, shows the towns, cities and villages, railroads, and streams in the county.
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Sauk County, Wisconsin

Date: 1990
Description: This late 20th century tourist map of Sauk County, Wisconsin, shows the highways and roads, cities and towns, parks, airports, canoe landings, hospitals, s...
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Bridgeport Township, Crawford County, WI

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Description: This 19th century manuscript map shows land claims near the confluence of the Wisconsin River with the Mississippi River in the Town of Bridgeport, Crawfor...
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Map of the Fox-Wisconsin Rivers

Date: 1887
Description: Map of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers to accompany Reuben Gold Thwaites' Historic Waterways.
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Map of Helena on the Wisconsin River, Wisconsin Territory

Date: 1832
Description: This map shows lot and block numbers, as well as the location of a shot tower, houses, stores, and barns. The map is oriented with the north to the left. T...
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Tracing of the Original Map Showing the Grignon Claim at Portage

Date: 1800
Description: This map is pencil on tracing paper and shows marshes, the Wisconsin River, Indian trails, and Indian boundary line. The upper left corner reads: "Let sect...
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Prairie du Chien

Date: 1838
Description: This map is a development plat that shows street names, numbered blocks and lots, and small farm lot owners. Included on the right of the map is a large am...
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Map of Prairie du Chien

Date: 05 21 1855
Description: This plat map shows lots, the Kickapoo River, and the Wisconsin River.
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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...
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Lincoln Co., Wis.

Date: 1900
Description: This map shows areas of Merrill, Corning, Scott, Rock Falls, Russel, Pelisan, Pine River, Ackley, and the Wisconsin River. The left margin of the map inclu...
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Lac Vieux Desert : 19.2 Miles of Shore Line

Date: 1910
Description: This map shows shoreline lot numbers and acreages, the Wisconsin River, and the Michigan and Wisconsin state line. Manuscript annotations relating to topon...
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Etats Unis de l'Amerique

Date: 1800
Description: Map of the United States. It shows the states, including Tennessee, cities, towns, Native American land, mountains, lakes, and rivers. Lead mines appear ju...
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A Map of the Five Great Lakes with Part of Pensilvania, New York, Canada, and Hudsons Bay Territories &c

Date: 1755
Description: Map of the Great Lakes region during the French and Indian War. It shows in great detail the territories, borders and boundary lines, Native American tribe...

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