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| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Illustration of town. Caption reads: "Bird's-eye View, Lyons, Wisconsin. A Village of natural environments, choice residence locations, desirable factory s... |
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| Description: | A colored advertising card that was issued by the Land Department of the Wisconsin Central Railroad in order to promote the sale of railroad-owned land in ... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Drawn map showing planned development of Cornell, including a couple of schools, Oakwood cemetery, the public square, and several bridges and dams. |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the Elmside lots for summer homes by Lake Monona. |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Advertisment of Leonard J. Farwell from the 1855 Madison City Directory for the real estate property he had for sale. At the time Farwell was the largest ... |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | Lots to be sold at auction by Van Antwerp and Van Dyke on Monday, 3rd Oct. 1836. The map shows plots and labeled streets. Iowa County was later split and B... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Postcard for Nakoma Realty Company. Caption reads: "Nakoma, You'll Enjoy The Wide Outdoors! 150 Acres Set Aside For Play! A Madison Realty Co. Property." |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | This is a collection of three hand-colored plat maps. One map is a plat plan and includes annotations and an index that shows public land, business, indust... |
| Date: | 09 1958 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of University Hill Farms on Madison's west side, a complete 604 acre community developed by the Regents of the University of Wisconsin. Real... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Baldwin & Killen Lands and W.H. Killen & Company, dealers of farm, lumber, and mineral lands, from Appleton, Wisconsin, with an image on the ... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | This map shows the lands in northern Wisconsin owned by Cornell University that were for sale. Text on the map encourages interested buyers to seek more in... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | This map is a photostat copy from the original 1829 map in the War Department. The map shows location of Fort Howard, lots, land claims of Jacques Porlier ... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Map shows townships and sections, landownership and acreages, railroads, and roads. The map was compiled by the civil engineer and city surveyor agent H.I.... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | This is a zoning map of Wauwatosa with a key of districts including agricultural, resident, business, commercial, and industrial. The map features labeled ... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | This map of La Crosse is accompanied by other plats of subdivision of the city. The relief is shown by hachures. The additions include: Rudolf Gripps Addit... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | This photostat map was probably originally created in 1835 and shows in addition to private claims, mills, roads, and trails. Green Bay and the Fox River a... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | This map covers parts of Minnesota, Iowa, and South Dakota and advertised 1,000,000 acres of land available. Communities, roads, and railroad lines are lab... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A map of Lake Geneva, including the villages of Williams Bay and Fontana, and a portion of the city of Lake Geneva. The Chicago and Northwestern Railway li... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | This blueprint manuscript map shows land owned by Green Bay & Mississippi Canal Co., Meade, Vilas, Patten, and Hewitt. Streets and the Fox River are labele... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | This bird's-eye-view map shows plat of area, numbered blocks and lots, local streets, roads, parks, golf club, schools, buildings, landscaping, and part of... |
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