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Raft Boats in Winter Quarters

Date: 1872
Description: Elevated view of nine rafters wintering at Reed's Landing. At left is Hiram Price, with L.W. Crane beside her. Third is Annie Girdon w...
Drawing

Queen's Bluff below Trempealeau

Date: 1872
Description: The sidewheel packet, Red Wing, in the Mississippi River near Queen's Bluff below Trempealeau, Wisconsin.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee

Date: 1872
Description: Bird's-eye map of Milwaukee on Lake Michigan.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of the City of Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Date: 1872
Description: Birds-eye drawing of Eau Claire depicts street names and street locations, houses, trees, bridges, piers, canals, railroads, and the Chippewa and Eau Clair...
Print

City of Milwaukee

Date: 1872
Description: View of Milwaukee, looking southwest toward the county courthouse while it was under construction.
Photograph

People by House with False Storefront

Date: 1872
Description: People standing in front of a house with a false storefront. A man is standing on the porch by a hand-pump. There is a woodpile in the yard behind a woman ...
Photograph

Freight Steamer "Cornucopia"

Date: 1872
Description: Elevated view from hill of the freight steamer "Cornucopia" loading hides at the Hammond Brothers warehouse, with Lawrence University buildings on the hill...
Drawing

Kendall Residence

Date: 1872
Description: Drawing of and elevated view across water towards the Kendall residence, home of George L. Storer, a businessman in Madison. Three people are in a rowboat,...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Chippewa River from the Head of Navigation at the City of Chippewa Falls

Date: 1872
Description: Map of the Chippewa River, from the head of navigation at the city of Chippewa Falls, covering a distance of 16 miles above : showing the established impro...
Map or Atlas

Office Wallbridge Bro. U. Sargent Map

Date: 1872
Description: Map entitled Office Wallbridge Bro. U. Sargent showing upper Minnesota and Wisconsin, as well as Lake Superior.
Photograph

Rice Lake Lumber Company Mill

Date: 1872
Description: Elevated view of the Rice Lake Lumber Company Mill, taken from a high vantage point. A formation of logs is in the river, and piles of finished boards are ...
Map or Atlas

Four Geological Sketches of Wisconsin

Date: 1872
Description: A series of four hand-colored, geological maps of Wisconsin. Starting from the top of the page, the first map is of a section along the line of the 4th pri...
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

Chapman's New Sectional Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1872
Description: This map of Wisconsin depicts the township survey grid and identifies counties, named towns, cities and villages, rivers, lakes, railroads, and the Chippew...
Map or Atlas

Farmer's Rail Road & Township Map of Wisconsin and Chart of the Lakes

Date: 1872
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...
Map or Atlas

Map of a Part of Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan Showing the Proposed Location of the Route for a Ship Canal

Date: 1872
Description: This 1872 map shows the proposed route of a canal between Sturgeon Bay, on the Green Bay side of the Door Peninsula, and Lake Michigan. Depths in both Stur...
Map or Atlas

Map of Menasha, Wisconsin

Date: 1872
Description: Shows landowners, buildings, lot numbers, roads and railroads. Includes Menasha business directory.
Map or Atlas

Sectional Map of Lincoln County Wisconsin

Date: 1872
Description: Shows what is currently Lincoln County and portions of Vilas, Oneida, Iron, and Langlade counties. Includes manuscript annotations of marked land tracts.
Photograph

Lake Monona Steamboat Launch

Date: 1872
Description: View from shoreline towards two small sidewheel steam launches on Lake Monona. The sign on the steam launch on the left side of the pier reads: "Scutanawbe...
Map or Atlas

La Crosse Bridge, Various Routes

Date: 1872
Description: This map is pencil, ink, and watercolor on paper. Shown on the map is the elevation and profile of La Crescent Bottoms, Mt. Vernon Street line, 13th Street...

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