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| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | View looking west from Lake Michigan with several steam ships and sailing vessels in harbor. There is a lighthouse to left of center, along shoreline. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map, looking west from shoreline on Lake Michigan of Milwaukee to Golden Lake in Waukesha County, with Kenosha and Fox Point at bottom corners, ... |
| 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: | 1882 |
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| Description: | This basic reference map of the state shows natural features, railroads, county seats, and political boundaries against the G.L.O. township and range grid.... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Colored map in perspective indicates railroad routes. Lake Winnebago and Oshkosh in center, area extends to Shawano (top right corner), Green Bay (bottom r... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of Milwaukee looking northeast. City Hall is visible at the left and Lake Michigan can be seen at the upper right. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee works. Long steel mill located on the bank of either a lake or a river. Multitudes of smokestacks, tracks, and small buildings. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A boat with five people are on a lake surrounded by trees. Behind them are several docked boats. In the background is a park area with a red-roofed buildin... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View across water toward several buildings on shoreline, two with large smokestacks. A man is standing on the shore, and two people are in a boat on the ri... |
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| Description: | Small building covered with vines on the roof and sides on a path near the lake. Caption reads: "Mitchell Park, Milwaukee, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Lake near the home, probably Lake Hincks, which was named after General Edward W. Hincks who was administrator of the Home in the 1870's. The grounds consi... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Map of home and land, with the roads, lakes, railroad, and buildings. |
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| Description: | St. Josephat Church and School from Kosciuszko Park. The classic style church with dome is across a body of water. Three boats with boaters are out rowing ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Church and school seen from Kosciuszko Park. Located across a lake, behind some trees and bushes. A woman is sitting on some decorative stones next to the ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view with the lake on the right, with a number of boats near the shoreline. There is a long winding road through the park, including bridges, a fo... |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | This hand-colored manuscript map shows the township and section grid in southeastern Wisconsin, covering the area west to Sugar River and Four Lakes region... |
| Date: | 05 1846 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored map of southeastern Wisconsin showing the counties of Dodge, Jefferson, Rock, Walworth, Racine (including modern-day Kenosha County), Waukesha... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | An 1876 reprinted map of the Township of Franklin, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, that shows the land ownership and sectioning of the town, as well as the ro... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | A hand-colored map of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin that shows the township and range system, sections, towns, roads, railroads and rail stations, cities and... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | A hand-colored map of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin that shows the township and range system, sections, towns, roads, railroads and rail stations, cities and... |
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