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Book or Pamphlet

Drain the Wet Land

Date: 04 15 1930
Description: Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department. The cover shows a man standing near a drainage ditch. The bookl...
Postcard

Soft Maple Creek

Date: 1910
Description: A river scene, presumably Soft Maple Creek. Caption reads: "River Scene, Weyerhauser, Wis."
Photograph

Rib Mountain

Date: 1930
Description: A view looking west at Rib Mountain across the Wisconsin River from the outskirts of Wausau.
Map or Atlas

The New Military Map Illustrating the Seat of War

Date: 1862
Description: This map of the southeastern United States shows cities and towns, rail lines, and geographic features such as rivers, mountains, lakes, and swamps.
Map or Atlas

Nordamerikanische Freistaat Wisconsin nach den neuesten Vermessungen

Date: 1849
Description: Published in Germany a year after Wisconsin entered statehood, this map shows prairies, swamps, lakes, mounds, limestone deposits, and lead and copper mine...
Map or Atlas

Chapman's Township Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1871
Description: This map of Wisconsin and surrounding states depicts the township survey grid and identifies counties, named towns, cities and villages, rivers, lakes, rai...
Map or Atlas

Map of Jefferson County, State of Wisconsin

Date: 1862
Description: This map shows townships, landownership, roads, railroads, and swampland in Jefferson County. There is an inset maps showing the towns of: Watertown, Jeffe...
Map or Atlas

Plat of the Farms of I.N. Stewart and Robt. A. Stewart

Date: 1882
Description: This manuscript map from 1882 shows land use and land for sale in a portion of the Town of Pewaukee, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Woods, marshland, springs,...
Map or Atlas

Map of Price County, Wisconsin

Date: 1888
Description: This late 19th century map of Price County, Wisconsin, shows landownership and waterfront acreages, the township and range system, towns, cities and villag...
Map or Atlas

Map of Sawyer County, Wisconsin

Date: 1902
Description: This 1902 map of the eastern portion of Sawyer County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range system, sections, roads, farm houses, camps, school houses, ...
Map or Atlas

Agricultural and Dairy Lands in Reliable Wisconsin

Date: 1914
Description: This early 20th century map shows the township and range system, sections, railroads, roads, lakes, wetlands, and streams in the western Sawyer County town...
Map or Atlas

Map of Sawyer County, Wisconsin

Date: 1919
Description: This 1919 map of Sawyer County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range system, sections, cities and villages, roads, railroads, farm houses, the Indian re...
Map or Atlas

Sheboygan County Highway System

Date: 1934
Description: This 1930s highway map of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, shows roads, the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, and streams, lakes, ...
Map or Atlas

Barron County, State of Wisconsin

Date: 1871
Description: This map of Barron County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, post offices, dwellings, schools, roads, swa...
Map or Atlas

Map of Taylor County, Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: This map of Taylor County, Wisconsin, shows landownership, the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, railroads, tanneries, cemeter...
Map or Atlas

Map of Washburn County, Wisconsin

Date: 1896
Description: This 1896 map of Washburn County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, sections, schools, wagon roads, cities and villages, settlers, railroads, a...
Map or Atlas

Map of Washburn County, Wisconsin

Date: 1916
Description: This 1916 map of Washburn County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, sections, towns, schools, wagon roads, cities and villages, post offices, s...
Map or Atlas

Map of Washburn County and Northern Part of Barron County : With Portion of State of Wisconsin, Showing the Relative Location of These Counties

Date: 1900
Description: This map from the turn of the 20th century shows the township and range grid, sections, towns, land owned by the Starks Levis Land Company of Madison, scho...
Map or Atlas

Map of Ashland County, Wisconsin

Date: 1898
Description: This 1898 map of Ashland County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, landownership, roads, railroads, swamp...
Map or Atlas

Island Moningwunakauning, Madeline Island : Home of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker

Date: 1964
Description: This 1964 map of Madeline Island, Ashland County, Wisconsin, shows existing and historical locations, roads, the boundaries of a proposed state park, secti...

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