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Plan Outagamie Palisade Village

Date: 1712
Description: This drawing, based on an 1897 survey, appeared in the 1899 Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, accompanying Publius V. Lawson's arti...
Map or Atlas

A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America: Viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, Connecticut and Rhode-Island: Of Aquanishuonigy the Country of the Confederate Indians Comprehending Aquanishuonigy Proper

Date: 1758
Description: This detailed map of north eastern America shows the boundaries, cities, mountains, rivers, lakes, Native American land and towns, and roads from east of t...
Drawing

Drawing of Cassville

Date: 1829
Description: Drawing of Cassville depicting a horse cart on the river's edge, with men and boats.
Map or Atlas

Rough Map of Milwalky and the Adjacent Country

Date: 1835
Description: This map is pen-and-ink on paper. The map shows landowners in "Milwalky" or present day Milwaukee. Includes "list of property offered to Mr. Walker". The m...
Map or Atlas

Map of Milwaukie

Date: 1836
Description: This map shows settlers houses and businesses, trails, and swamps. The relief is shown by hachures. The map includes illustrations of historical buildings ...
Photograph

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 1837
Description: Photographic print of an amateur painting, probably representing the "first house in Madison, Wisconsin." The Peck Cabin, one of the many free variations o...
Painting

Watertown

Date: 1841
Description: View across the river towards several residences on the opposite shoreline.
Print

View of Southport

Date: 1842
Description: Lithograph of Southport.
Painting

View of La Pointe, Madeline, Wisconsin

Date: 1842
Description: American Fur Company with both Mission churches. Sketch purportedly by a Native American youth. Probably an overpainted photographic copy enlargement. Pape...
Photograph

Fort Howard

Date: 1851
Description: A rare photograph of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Howard rowing a boat on the Fox River. Fort Howard, built in 1816, was the first in the chain of ...
Photograph

Fort Howard

Date: 1851
Description: A rare photograph of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Howard rowing a boat on the Fox River. Fort Howard, built in 1816, was the first in the chain of ...
Drawing

Madison Landscape

Date: 1852
Description: Pencil drawing of view overlooking Madison. The sketch looks down North Hamilton Street from the capitol. Rutted, irregular streets and frame houses mark ...
Drawing

Madison from University Hill

Date: 1852
Description: Pencil drawing of Madison landscape as seen from University Hill. The main street in the center is State Street, and the building with Greek columns in the...
Painting

Green Bay Painting

Date: 1856
Description: " . . . The first in their series was not an 'improvement' but a view of the Green Bay settlement, looking downstream. From a simulated rustic fence corner...
Painting

Menasha Painting

Date: 1856
Description: ". . . The upper Grand Chute was the last of the 'improvements' paintings signed by Brookes and Stevenson. Yet there were two more vital links in the Fox R...
Painting

Portage Painting

Date: 1856
Description: "After painting a number of Fox River scenes, "the artists continued their way to Fond du Lac, at the south end of Lake Winnebago, where they found some mo...
Painting

De Pere Painting

Date: 1856
Description: ". . . At De Pere they stopped on the west shore for a broad sketch of the dwellings clustered on both sides of the river. The distant dam, the mills, ware...
Painting

Little Chute Painting

Date: 1856
Description: "Three views in a short space show the peaceful appearance of what is now a busy paper mills center . . . [One of them] is Little Chute, one of the pleasan...
Painting

Grand Chute Painting

Date: 1856
Description: " . . . At Grand Chute stood the young settlement of Appleton. Although only a few years old, it already boasted a college, named, as was the village itsel...
Drawing

Pencil Sketch of Jacob Miller House

Date: 1858
Description: Pencil sketch of the Jacob Miller home.

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