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Bird's-Eye View of the City of Berlin, Green Lake County, Wisconsin

Date: 1867
Description: Bird's-eye map of Berlin, with insets of West Side Public School and High School.
Map or Atlas

Berlin, Wisconsin

Date: 1892
Description: Bird's-eye map of Berlin.
Map or Atlas

Princeton, Wisconsin, Looking North

Date: 1892
Description: Bird's-eye map of Princeton, with an inset of the Residence of F.T. Yahr. Fox River loops to left of center, with one bridge; thirty-six businesses, reside...
Photograph

Crowd around Brick Church

Date: 1869
Description: View down road towards the exterior of a large brick church with a stone foundation, belfry and steeple. A group of people stand in front of the white boar...
Drawing

High School

Date: 1869
Description: View of the Berlin High School, with children playing and people walking in the foreground.
Print

Berlin High School

Date: 1870
Description: View of the Berlin High School, with children playing and people walking in the foreground.
Photograph

Marquette's Well

Date: 1889
Description: Cross in a field marking the area of "Marquette's well."
Document

Berlin Woolen Mills Letterhead

Date: 1876
Description: Letterhead of the Berlin Woolen Mills bearing an engraving of the factory, which is unusual because of its French Mansard roof.
Map or Atlas

Hydrographic Map of Green Lake, Wisconsin

Date: 1898
Description: A hydrographic map of Green Lake, Geneva, Wisconsin, and includes 5 cross sections of the depths at various points as well as along a line running the leng...
Map or Atlas

Map of Green Lake County, Wisconsin

Date: 1896
Description: A map of Green Lake County, Wisconsin, shows township divisions, villages and post offices, railroads, roads, lakes and streams, schools, and churches.
Map or Atlas

Town Plat of Dartford, Wisconsin

Date: 1849
Description: The map reads: "Dartford is centrally located in Wisconsin, on the north side of Green Lake, and in full view of that beautiful sheet of Water. Its precise...
Historical Essay

Quarrying Industry in Wisconsin

Brief history of the quarrying industry in Wisconsin.
Historical Essay

Welsh in Wisconsin

Read about Welsh immigration to Wisconsin between 1840 and 1890, when many Welsh settled in rural enclaves as farmers
Historical Essay

Chief Dandy and the White Settlers

Some Interesting Stories of the Winnebago Chief
Read about Ho-Chunk Chief Dandy's interesting and friendly interactions with white settlers in Wisconsin, even while he was a fugitive.
Historical Essay

A Captain Describes the New Process of Embalming

A Wisconsin Civil War Story
Historical Essay

A Visual Tour of Wisconsin's Fine Opera Houses - Image Gallery Essay

Architectural photographs of the restored opera houses of Wisconsin.
Historical Essay

The Wisconsin Free Library Commission - Image Gallery Essay

Photographs of Public Libraries in Wisconsin
Learn about how the Wisconsin Free Library Commission helped to establish and improve free public libraries in Wisconsin.
Photograph

Scattered Picnickers

Date: 1885
Description: Scattered figures of a picnic party on a grassy slope.
Map or Atlas

Map of Berlin, Wis.

Date: 1875
Description: This map shows plat of the town, land ownership by name, wards, local streets, railroads, and part of Fox River. The map also includes a directory and adve...
Map or Atlas

Map of Green Lake County, Wisconsin

Date: 1860
Description: This map shows roads, railroads, rivers, townships, school houses, churches, cemeteries, and land ownership by name. Relief is shown by hachures. The map i...

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