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| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Geological map of the mineral region around Lake Superior, including portions of Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois. |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | This map shows portions of northern Illinois and Wisconsin surveyed by the map's creation. It shows county lines and university land, and depicts lead and ... |
| Date: | 1846 |
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| Description: | This map shows the counties and towns in existence at the time as well as lead and copper mines. |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | This map by Increase Lapham shows the township and range system in southern and eastern Wisconsin as well as along the Wisconsin River in present-day Marat... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Published a year after Wisconsin entered statehood, this map shows the counties and towns in existence at the time - mainly in southern/southeastern Wiscon... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | This detailed map outlines mid and southern WI county boundaries in bright color, and city/town lines are provided. Other marks include lead mines, copper ... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Map outlines mid and southern Wisconsin county boundaries in blue, and city/town lines are provided. Other marks include mines, plank roads, and railroads. |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Southern two thirds of Wisconsin with county boundaries hand-colored in red. The map displays towns, railroads, plan roads and mines. The scale is ten mile... |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Railroad map outlines mid and southern Wisconsin county boundaries in red, and city/town lines are provided. Other marks include lead mines, copper mines, ... |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | This map shows surveyed counties in blue, yellow, and pink, railroads, plank roads and mines. Lake Michigan, the Mississippi River, other rivers and lakes,... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A geological survey map that shows the sedimentary and igneous deposits in southeastern Wisconsin and south central Wisconsin, as well as the limits of gla... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | This map shows the township survey grid and identifies counties, named towns, rivers, lakes, railroads, plank roads, mines, and the Menomonee Reservation. ... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | This map, which includes eastern Iowa, northern Illinois and a portion of Michigan's Upper peninsula, shows the township survey grid and identifies countie... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | This map of Ashland County, Wisconsin, which at the time included part of present-day Iron County, also covers portions of Vilas County, Wisconsin, then pa... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | This map shows mining properties in the Gogebic Range between Atkins Lake, in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, on the west and Lake Gogebic, Michigan, on the east... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | This 1952 map of the northern parts of Bayfield and Douglas counties, Wisconsin, shows points established by E.T. Sweet in 1877, road points confirmed by S... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | This 1892 map of Douglas County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, roads, railroads, trails, lakes and st... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | This map shows ghost towns, Indian reservations, lakes, railroads, and rivers. Ghost towns are numbered and listed in a corresponding index. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | This map shows major cities surrounding the Great Lakes. Portions of Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts,C... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | This map shows the movement from coalfields in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, and part of Virginia to Lake Erie. Quantities of coal are label... |
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