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| Date: | 1513 |
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| Description: | This exquisite woodcut map is one of the first to show any part of North America. It originally appeared in the 1513 Strasbourg edition of Ptolemy's Geogra... |
| Date: | 1632 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin portion of Champlain's 1632 map, augmented since the previous one, for navigation according to the true Meridien, by Sieur de Champlain. The ... |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Radisson cabin, the first house built by a white man in Wisconsin. It was built between 1650 and 1660 on Chequamegon Bay, in the vicinity... |
| Date: | 1670 |
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| Description: | This map is in French and shows Lac Tracy ov Superieur (Lake Superior), Baye des Puans (Green Bay), and portions of Lac des Ilinois (Lake Michigan) and Lac... |
| Date: | 1688 |
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| Description: | This map includes vignettes of Amerindian life with text describing geography, culture, and exploration activity, written in French. The Great Lakes, river... |
| Date: | 1712 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1718 |
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| Description: | First edition of L'Isle's landmark map of North America. It covers America from the Rio Grande to the Atlantic Ocean, showing boundaries, the colonies, cit... |
| Date: | 1720 |
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| Description: | Double hemispherical world map showing routes of Tasman, Magellan, Mendana, etc. Relief shown pictorially. Title in oak wreath cartouche. Map between four ... |
| Date: | 1720 |
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| Description: | Map showing the course of the Mississippi River from the Gulf of Mexico up past Lake Superior into Canada. It shows the towns, Native American tribes and l... |
| Date: | 1733 |
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| Description: | From "A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto". This is the Wisconsin and Minnesota section. |
| Date: | 1755 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1755 |
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| Description: | From "A map of the British and French dominions in North American with the roads, distances, limits, and extent of the settlements". |
| Date: | 1758 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1760 |
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| Description: | This map shows lakes, rivers, forts, settlements, and Native American tribal territory. The southern boundary of the Hudsons Bay Company is labeled. Relief... |
| Date: | 1769 |
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| Description: | Manuscript map. Scale: about 80 British statue miles to 1 inch. |
| Date: | 1790 |
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| Description: | An ink and hand-colored map, showing the land and landowners of the Susquehanna company purchase in Pennsylvania. Rivers are shown and occasionally labeled... |
| Date: | 1795 |
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| Description: | Heavily detailed and rare map of the United States. The map features the states, territories, cities, towns, forts, mines, mountains, swamps, lakes, and ri... |
| Date: | 1799 |
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| Description: | Map of North America from the Great Lakes region to Baffins Bay. It shows settlements, Native American land, cities, trading houses and forts, mountains, a... |
| Date: | 1800 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1800 |
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| Description: | This pen and ink drawing with watercolor shows the course of the Black River from Rock Creek, near Greenwood in Clark County, Wisconsin, to its confluence ... |
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