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Appleton Outagamie County, Wisconsin

Date: 1867
Description: Birds-eye drawing of Appleton, Outagamie Co., depicting street names and street layout, houses, the Fox River, the court house, jail, school houses, Lawren...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Jefferson

Date: 1870
Description: Although the first European settlement in Jefferson was in 1836, the Village of Jefferson was first incorporated as a city in 1878. Made eight years earlie...
Map or Atlas

Beloit : Rock County, Wisconsin

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye view of Beloit, with insets of Beloit College, Beloit High School, and Memorial Hall.
Map or Atlas

Milwaukee-Downer College-Wisconsin

Date: 1927
Description: Color map, hand-drawn with comic figures engaged in various activities throughout map. Bordered by the river on the left and Lake Michigan on the right, in...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Racine

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye map of Racine, with an inset of Racine College.
Print

Lawrence College

Date: 1942
Description: Trees interspersed with college buildings in lower half of image, with Fox River bisecting the middle, and a few buildings across the river with open fiel...
Photograph

Ripon College Map

Date: 1873
Description: The Ripon College street plan.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Ripon College

Date: 1900
Description: Newspaper clipping, copy of lithograph, of how Ripon College looked in about 1900. Indicates West College, Middle College, East College and Congregational ...
Photograph

Professor Alexander Winchell, Geologist

Date: 
Description: Quarter-length carte-de-visite of Alexander Winchell (1824-1891), State Geologist of Michigan and Professor of Geology and Paleontology at the University o...
Photograph

Dr. John Lang Cassells, Chemist

Date: 1866
Description: Reproduction of a carte-de-visite portrait of Johnathan Lang Cassells (1808-1866), Scottish-born chemist. Worked as a physician and a Professor of chemistr...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Ramparts Magazine Cover

Date: 04 1966
Description: Cover of "Ramparts," an underground newspaper, featuring a drawing of then Vietnamese first lady Madame Nhu in a Michigan State University cheerleading uni...
Print

Milwaukee Downer College Library

Date: 02 1908
Description: Exterior view of the Greene Memorial Library of Milwaukee-Downer College (now the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). The image is part of a 14-page pamphl...
Print

Richard Ely Portrait

Date: 
Description: A reproduction of a painted portrait of Richard T. Ely, Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Photograph

Richard Ely and Staff in "Chicago Tribune"

Date: 11 08 1925
Description: A newspaper article in the "Chicago Sunday" tribune titled "Largest Staff of Its Kind in the World — At N.W.U." featuring a photograph of Richard Ely and h...
Photograph

Article Featuring Richard Ely

Date: 02 1930
Description: An article titled "Institute for Research in Land Economics and Public Utilities to Establish Outpost in China" features Professor Richard Ely.
Photograph

"Sun Trade Journal" Article Featuring Richard Ely

Date: 03 01 1903
Description: An article in Tokyo publication the "Sun Trade Journal" featuring Richard Ely, along with images of the main buildings of the University of Wisconsin-Madis...
Photograph

Japanese Article Featuring Richard Ely

Date: 
Description: An article featuring Richard Ely in the Japanese publication "The Financial World."
Map or Atlas

Proposed Campus Group Chapel Heights College Sheboygan Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: This map is a bird's-eye-view of Chapel Heights College showing the proposed grouping of campus buildings. The bottom right corner features a small inset m...
Document

Toechter Institut

Date: 1864
Description: Information about the Toechter Institut in Milwaukee.
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Calendar — February and March

Date: 1893
Description: Calendar with the months of February and March, 1893. Features an illustration of a woman sitting on the top of a globe. She is holding a wreath, and is re...

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