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View of the City of Milwaukee

Date: 1856
Description: View looking west from Lake Michigan with several steam ships and sailing vessels in harbor. There is a lighthouse to left of center, along shoreline.
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Wauwatosa and the Western Suburbs of Milwaukee

Date: 1892
Description: Color bird's-eye map of Wauwatosa, looking east toward Milwaukee and Lake Michigan. Predominantly green with cream colored roadways, with six land plots ow...
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Map of Electric Railway System. T.M.E.R. & L. Co.

Date: 1898
Description: Bird's-eye map, looking west from shoreline on Lake Michigan of Milwaukee to Golden Lake in Waukesha County, with Kenosha and Fox Point at bottom corners, ...
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Colton's Wisconsin

Date: 1882
Description: This basic reference map of the state shows natural features, railroads, county seats, and political boundaries against the G.L.O. township and range grid....
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Bird's-Eye View of East Central Wisconsin

Date: 1908
Description: Colored map in perspective indicates railroad routes. Lake Winnebago and Oshkosh in center, area extends to Shawano (top right corner), Green Bay (bottom r...
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National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Near Milwaukee

Date: 1876
Description: Map of home and land, with the roads, lakes, railroad, and buildings.
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Milwaukee Land District

Date: 1836
Description: This hand-colored manuscript map shows the township and section grid in southeastern Wisconsin, covering the area west to Sugar River and Four Lakes region...
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Land Sold in the Milwaukee Land District

Date: 05 1846
Description: Hand-colored map of southeastern Wisconsin showing the counties of Dodge, Jefferson, Rock, Walworth, Racine (including modern-day Kenosha County), Waukesha...
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Township and Range Map of Milwaukee County with Parts of Racine, Walworth and Waukesha County

Date: 1830
Description: A hand-drawn map of the township sectioning of Milwaukee, eastern Waukesha, northern Walworth, and Racine Counties. Other items shown in the map are the la...
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Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Date: 1844
Description: An ink on paper, hand-drawn map of Milwaukee County that shows the sectioning of townships, the boundary of the canal grant, roads, streams, lakes, includi...
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Map of Milwaukee County

Date: 1858
Description: An ink on paper map of Milwaukee County and the eastern portion of Waukesha County that shows the townships of Oak Creek, Franklin, Greenfield, Wauwatosa, ...
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Map of Franklin Township, Wisconsin

Date: 1976
Description: An 1876 reprinted map of the Township of Franklin, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, that shows the land ownership and sectioning of the town, as well as the ro...
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Map of Milwaukee County and Plans of Pewaukee, Oconomowoc, Soldiers' Home, Wauwatosa, Waukesha

Date: 1886
Description: A hand-colored map of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin that shows the township and range system, sections, towns, roads, railroads and rail stations, cities and...
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Map of Milwaukee County and Plans of Pewaukee, Oconomowoc, Soldiers' Home, Wauwatosa, Waukesha

Date: 1891
Description: A hand-colored map of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin that shows the township and range system, sections, towns, roads, railroads and rail stations, cities and...
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Map of the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal

Date: 1837
Description: A pen and ink on tracing paper, hand-drawn and colored map the proposed route of the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal, ranging from the Rock River in the wes...
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Plat of the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal

Date: 1838
Description: A map of the proposed route of the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal from Fort Atkinson on the Rock River in the west to the city of Milwaukee and Lake Michig...
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Town of Milwaukee

Date: 1830
Description: An ink on paper, hand-drawn map of the town of Milwaukee, showing the divisions and landownership within the town by private individuals as well as those l...
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Erving, Burdick & Co's Map of Milwaukee

Date: 1863
Description: Includes index to public buildings, churches, schools. Inset: Glidden & Lockwood’s addition. Gives names of some property owners.
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County and Township Map of the States of Michigan and Wisconsin

Date: 1877
Description: Two maps on one page, removed from an atlas. The first map shows Wisconsin and the upper peninsula of Michigan counties and townships while the second map ...
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Map of the City of Milwaukee

Date: 1880
Description: Map created from original drawing and surveys taken by Silas Chapman. Bottom right corner features a reference key. There is a street guide on the left sid...

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