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| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Madison. "Taken from the Water Cure, South Side of Lake Monona, 1855." |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Colored map showing a panoramic view of Madison in great detail. The Wisconsin State Capitol is located at the center, with Lake Mendota in the background ... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | A sign for Fauerbach's Brewery depicting a young woman and the brewery. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a steam powered sailing ship named "Progress" with a McCorm... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of the Chicago fire of October 8, 1871. The hand-colored lithograph was published by Currier and Ives. |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Milwaukee looking east toward Lake Michigan from a bluff, long since graded into a slope, at about 6th Street between Wisconsin Avenue an... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Oconomowoc. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Madison. The Lakeside House resort is in the foreground, which burned in 1877, in what is now Olin Park. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Birds-eye drawing of Oconomowoc depicts street names and street layouts, houses, trees, Oconomowoc River, Fowler Lake, and La Belle Lake. A reference key a... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Racine, with an inset of Racine College. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Two Rivers. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Whitewater, with insets. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee in 1853 details building features and city layout from southwest. Important buildings are numbered in a silhouette drawing bel... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Chicago, with ships in the Lake Michigan harbor. |
| 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: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Receipt issued by the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions to Frederick Smith for a contribution of ten cents from the Sabbath School of the... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A howling dog tied to a post, with an empty food dish in front of him. Water is in the background with a sailing ship, probably from the blockade. Text abo... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Oshkosh Packing & Provision Company, a meat packer and preserver, with an illustration of the company buildings on the waterfront, with w... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Louis Auer & Son, Milwaukee passenger agents for the Red Star Line, with a bearded man in a cap and uniform steering a ship's wheel. The name... |
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