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Filter: Subject of lakes
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Madison. "Taken from the Water Cure, South Side of Lake Monona, 1855." |
| Date: | 1823 |
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| Description: | In 1823 U.S. Army major Stephen H. Long led an expedition of scientific, trade, and military investigation up the Mississippi River and the Red River of th... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Colored map showing a panoramic view of Madison in great detail. The Wisconsin State Capitol is located at the center, with Lake Mendota in the background ... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | A sign for Fauerbach's Brewery depicting a young woman and the brewery. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | This map show the surveyed southern part of state and includes "profile of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail Road." Counties are shown in pink, green, blu... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | This map shows U.S. land offices, completed railroads, railroad land grant limits, lakes, rivers, and Indian reservations. Communities, lakes, and rivers a... |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Little Lake Butte Des Morts just north of Lake Winnebago where Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan, and Thomas McKenney, head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | This map shows lakes, rivers, state, county, and town boundaries, as well as railroads completed, in progress, and contemplated. The map includes a color d... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Colorized view of King Street, looking east, with a streetcar. Lake Monona is in the background. Caption reads: "King Street, looking East, Madison, Wis." |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Lake Superior shoreline, with terraces leading to the beach. A canoe is on the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Map of the township of Windsor, from the "Atlas of Dane County." |
| 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: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Drawn the first year of the Civil War, this colored 1861 map of Dane County shows its towns, cities and lakes. It includes insets of the wards of Madison a... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Black Earth. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Map of Dane County rural delivery in Madison and the town of Westport. |
| Date: | 1839 |
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| Description: | This map shows the hydrology of Madison and its vicinity at the height of interest in a proposed Milwaukee and Rock River Canal. It was made by Thomas Jeff... |
| Date: | 1839 |
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| Description: | A map of the Wiskonsin [sic] and Neenah or Fox Rivers. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Map of the general plan of the district of the Four Lakes. |
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