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Drawing

Lake Superior Area

Date: 1852
Description: Illustration of four Indians on Madeline Island with a canoe in the water on the shore.
Map or Atlas

A Bird's-Eye View of the City of Ashland, Wis. County Seat of Ashland Co.

Date: 1886
Description: Bird's-eye view of Ashland, on the shores of Lake Superior, with insets of The Apostle Islands Chequamagon Bay & Ashland, and Distances from Ashland.
Drawing

Island of St. Ignace

Date: 1850
Description: Pastoral scene depicting a small bay on the Island of St. Ignace in Lake Superior with canoes on the rocky beach, two men conversing on a blanket in the fo...
Drawing

Pic Island from Camp Porphyry

Date: 1850
Description: Pic Island on the north shore of Lake Superior.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Washburn, Wis. Bayfield County

Date: 1886
Description: Bird's-eye map of Washburn on Lake Superior. There is an inset of Washburn, Chequamagon and the Apostle Islands.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Washburn

Date: 1910
Description: Bird's-eye view looking east, with Washburn Harbor at center and Chequamegon Bay in Lake Superior covering most of the upper image. Streets with buildings...
Postcard

Camp Stella on Sand Island, Lake Superior

Date: 1905
Description: Camp Stella looking south toward the Bayfield County shoreline from an Apostle Island.
Map or Atlas

Map of Wiskonsan (Wisconsin)

Date: 1844
Description: Map of Wisconsin including Lakes Michigan and Superior. Inset includes "N.W. Part of Wiskonsan."
Map or Atlas

Map of Ashland and Bayfield Counties

Date: 1878
Description: A color map detailing Ashland and Bayfield counties, including Lake Superior and the Apostle Islands.
Map or Atlas

Madeline Island Plat Map

Date: 1981
Description: Plat map of Madeline Island surrounded by Basswood, Michigan and Gull Islands.
Postcard

The Vessel's Stern and Rudder Post

Date: 
Description: Postcard of the "Vessel's Stern and Rudder Post" geological formation on Madeline Island, one of the Apostle Islands. View of the shoreline and a man sitti...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Map

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored map of Wisconsin, showing the county boundaries, towns, cities, railroads, roads, lakes, rivers, bays, and the Lake Superior’s islands. In ...
Map or Atlas

Bad River Indian Reservation, Wisconsin

Date: 1939
Description: This map shows the towns to Gingles, Sanborn, and Guney as well as Chequamegon Bay, Kakagon River, White River, Marengo River, Bad River, Potato River, Vau...
Map or Atlas

Triangulation in Wisconsin and Michigan

Date: 1875
Description: Map of the triangulations made from Vulcan on the Keweenaw Peninsula in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan south through eastern Wisconsin, past Chicago to Ba...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Map

Date: 1884
Description: A detailed, hand-colored map of Wisconsin and the western portion of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, which also includes an inset of Isle Royale in Lake Superi...
Map or Atlas

Post Route Map of Michigan and Wisconsin

Date: 1915
Description: A map showing the location of post offices in Wisconsin and Michigan that were in operation as of April, 1915, along with the mail routes in use as well as...
Map or Atlas

Sectional Map of the State of Wisconsin

Date: 1881
Description: A hand-colored, cloth mounted, sectional map of Wisconsin showing the township grid, completed and proposed railroads, counties, towns, cities, villages. T...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1882
Description: A hand-colored, sectional map of Wisconsin showing the township grid, completed and proposed railroads, counties, towns, cities, villages. The map also inc...
Map or Atlas

Map of Proposed Light-House Site, Gull Island, Apostle Island Group, Lake Superior, Wisconsin

Date: 1907
Description: A map of the eastern portion of the Apostle Islands group, and a detailed map of Gull Island showing the relief on the island, are included here, along wit...
Map or Atlas

Ashland County Map

Date: 1905
Description: Map of Ashland County.

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