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People of Wisconsin according to ethnic stocks, 1940
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George W. Hill, of the University of Wisconsin rural sociology faculty, prepared this map to illustrate how European ethnic groups contributed to the building of Wisconsin. Information in the map used data from the 1905 Wisconsin state census. The map shows sparse population areas and the following ethnicities: Latvian, Italian, Icelander, Croatian-Slovene, old stock American, Norwegian, Indian (Native American), Swedish, Danish, Polish, Finnish, Bohemian, mixture, Russian, Irish, Scotch, English, Swiss, German, Belgian, Hollander, Welsh, Lithuanian, and French.
circa 1940
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WHi 23651
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