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Map or Atlas

View of the City of Milwaukee

Date: 1856
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.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Sheboygan

Date: 1885
Description: Bird's-eye view of Sheboygan, with inset of J.J. Volrath Manufacturing Company.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Lake Geneva

Date: 1882
Description: Bird's-eye map of Lake Geneva, looking southwest, with insets of points of interest.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Superior

Date: 1913
Description: Bird's-eye map of Superior. "The New Steel Center."
Map or Atlas

Map of Electric Railway System. T.M.E.R. & L. Co.

Date: 1898
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, ...
Photograph

Elevated View of City — Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Date: 1915
Description: Advertisement reads: "Castle-Pierce Printing Company" and "Feb. 1915". Text on right reads: "The Heart of Oshkosh. This birds-eye view represents about one...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1870
Description: Map of Wisconsin showing counties and their county seats, towns and cities with over 3,000 inhabitants, the Detroit and Milwaukee Steam Ship Line, and both...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin for the State Board of Immigration

Date: 1872
Description: A map of Wisconsin which shows the counties, county seats, those cities with over 3,000 inhabitants. The map also displays the rivers, lakes, completed and...
Map or Atlas

State of Wisconsin Geological Survey

Date: 1874
Description: A hand-colored, geological map of Wisconsin show the progress of the state geological survey in 1873 and 1874. Other elements displayed in the map include...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Illustrated Map

Date: 1974
Description: Map of Wisconsin with drawings illustrating historic places and events throughout the state. The Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin appears at the top ri...
Print

Dow Flour Mill Letterhead

Date: 1890
Description: Dow Flour Mill letterhead, with an engraving of the mill building, with a locomotive, a ship on the lake, and the dome of the Wisconsin State Capitol.
Drawing

Walk-in-the-Water

Date: 1895
Description: Drawing of the Great Lakes steamer Walk-in-the-Water.
Postcard

Harbor Scene

Date: 1952
Description: Text on front reads: "Harbor Scene, Racine Wisconsin." A large ship is docked in Racine's harbor, with another ship and harbor facilities.
Postcard

Ore Docks

Date: 1904
Description: Text on front reads: "Ore Docks, Superior, Wis." Elevated view of an ore carrying ship that is within the ore docks on Lake Superior.
Postcard

Steamship William E. Corey

Date: 03 23 1915
Description: Text on front reads: "Steamship William E. Corey, entering Duluth and Superior Harbor, Wis." A steamship entering the harbor under the Aerial Lift Bridge, ...

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