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Wisconsin Map Folder
Map
This map of Wisconsin shows U.S., state and county highways, cities, county boundaries, lakes, rivers, and points of interest. An ancillary map in the upper margin shows the Upper Michigan Peninsula its connections with Wisconsin highways. Adjacent portions of Michigan, Minnesota, and Illinois are visible. The back of the sheet includes a topographical map of the northern Wisconsin lakes region, a map of the Door County Peninsula, a map of Devil's Lake and the Dells region, and a map of Waukesha County area highways. A mileage chart is also included.
1928
Milwaukee Journal Tour Club (cartographer)
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Northern Wisconsin Lakes Map Folder
1925
This map shows state trunk highways, county trunk highways, railroads, canoe trails, lakes, and free public camp sites. The map on the reverse also shows a portion of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and...
Milwaukee Map Folder
1928
This map shows a view of the Milwaukee metropolitan area. It highlights state trunk highways, principal county trunks and other secondary highways and types of surfacing. Includes a insert of parki...
![Lake, River, and Forest Recion [sic] of Sawyer County, Wisconsin : The Summer Playground of the Middle West](https://explore.wishistory.org/AssetLink/4k42wlf32od2vue425m5450t3twl78k8.jpg)
Lake, River, and Forest Recion [sic] of Sawyer County, Wisconsin : The Summer Playground of the Middle West
1925
This 1925 map of the northern portion of Sawyer County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range system, sections, roads, railroads, and lakes and streams in the area. Illustrations and text provide...
Map of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railway
1885
A hand-colored map of Wisconsin and adjacent parts of eastern Minnesota and Iowa, northern Illinois, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan showing counties, cities, the township grid, railroads, rive...
Chapman's Sectional Map of Wisconsin
1875
This hand-colored map of Wisconsin and the western portion of Michigan's Upper Peninsula depicts the township survey grid and identifies counties, named towns, cities and villages, rivers, lakes, r...
Tunison's new railroad, distance, township and sectional map of Wisconsin and Upper Peninsula of Michigan : from latest surveys
1903
Drawn around 1903, this map exhaustively shows the location of each county, city and village in Wisconsin. Railroads are identified and the distances between cities and villages are given. At the b...
