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| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of the Chicago fire of October 8, 1871. The hand-colored lithograph was published by Currier and Ives. |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Milwaukee looking east toward Lake Michigan from a bluff, long since graded into a slope, at about 6th Street between Wisconsin Avenue an... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Racine, with an inset of Racine College. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Two Rivers. |
| 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: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Chicago, with ships in the Lake Michigan harbor. |
| Date: | 1632 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin portion of Champlain's 1632 map, augmented since the previous one, for navigation according to the true Meridien, by Sieur de Champlain. The ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of Lover's Leap, with a group of people posing on the rocks and sailboats in the background. Caption reads: "Lover's Leap, Sturgeon Bay, Wis." |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View of a boating scene off of the shore of Marinette and Menominee. Two boys are walking on the pier on the left, and a crowd of people are gathered at th... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Lithograph illustration of downtown Chicago near the Rush Street bridge (a "swing bridge"). The McCormick Reaper Works and other factory buildings are on t... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Color illustration of the Rush Street Bridge and Chicago River as it appeared in 1861. Includes the C.H. McCormick Reaper Works on the far side of the rive... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Oshkosh Packing & Provision Company, a meat packer and preserver, with an illustration of the company buildings on the waterfront, with w... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard view of the Sturgeon Bay ship canal from the bay toward shore. A sailboat is on the left and a lighthouse is on shore on the right. C... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard view of a pier and lighthouse at the entrance to Milwaukee's harbor. Two people sail in a small boat to the right of the lighthouse, ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | This map is part of the survey of the northern and northwestern lakes. The map shows Sheboygan Harbor on the shore of Lake Michigan and the Sheboygan River... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Lithograhic view of the residence of John Kinzie on the bank of the Chicago River at the mouth of Lake Michigan. The residence consists of a house with a f... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A colored map depiction of Door County, Wisconsin, with pictorial highlights, titled: "Door County — Wisconsin's Air Conditioned Peninsula Playground." |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of fishing village on Jones Island, Milwaukee. Several fishing boats are docked along the shoreline. Large piles of lumber are in the foregro... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Racine, Wisconsin in 1850." Artist's rendering of the view of the harbor with sailing ships, sailboats, rowboats and canoes. The Main... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | View of a replica Viking Ship that sailed from Norway to the United States for the Columbian Exposition in 1893. Three men are standing on shore in front o... |
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