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Main Street

Date: 1873
Description: Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams.
Photograph

Middleton Railroad Crossing

Date: 1873
Description: Elevated view of several men, some of whom may be railroad workers, posing in front of a Minnesota and St. Paul wood-burning engine at a train crossing. Th...
Map or Atlas

Windsor Township

Date: 1873
Description: Map of the township of Windsor, from the "Atlas of Dane County."
Photograph

View of Wisconsin State Capitol (Third)

Date: 1873
Description: View, ca. 1873-1879, of Madison looking down Wisconsin Avenue toward the third Wisconsin Capitol, a view that suggests something of the ongoing importance ...
Photograph

Landscape View and Farm

Date: 1873
Description: View down a rocky hill towards a split-rail fence bordering a prosperous farm. The low building in the center is the kind of cattle shed settlers built as ...
Photograph

Wisconsin Farm

Date: 1873
Description: Three people are posing in the foreground, with a man with a long beard standing in front of two women sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. There is a barn a...
Photograph

Man in front of Fence

Date: 1873
Description: A bearded man is standing in the foreground in front of a fence, and a person is sitting on the fence on the right. Two people are standing on the hill beh...
Photograph

Farms of Burton, Fitlen, and Rustebakke

Date: 1873
Description: View of several farms, including Burton's, Fitlen's and Rustebakke's. Field arrangements and fencing patterns are evident. A man is walking along the bott...
Photograph

Blue Mounds Farm

Date: 1873
Description: View down a rocky rural lane near West Blue Mounds. Zigzag stake and rider split-rail fencing enclose a farmstead, which includes a barn, a frame house, ha...
Photograph

Onon Bjorn Dahle's House and Store

Date: 1873
Description: A man is standing in front of a fence along a road in the foreground. Two other men are in the road; one is standing and one is on horseback. Onon Bjorn Da...
Photograph

Farm and Rolling Hills

Date: 1873
Description: View of a prosperous farmstead from a neighboring hill. A man is standing near a woman in a horse-drawn vehicle in front of a board fence in the foreground...
Map or Atlas

Dane County Atlas Map

Date: 1873
Description: Color outline map of Dane County, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Map of Verona

Date: 1873
Description: A map of Verona Township from the Dane County Atlas.
Map or Atlas

Map of Paoli

Date: 1873
Description: Map of Paoli as seen in the Dane County Atlas.
Map or Atlas

Plat Map of Columbia County

Date: 1873
Description: Columbia County Atlas Arlington Township 10 North Range 9 East.
Map or Atlas

Copy of Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, Wisc., Water Routes from the Mississippi to the Lakes by Maj. D.C. Houston, Corps of Engineers, U.S.A.

Date: 1873
Description: A hand-colored, geological map of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers’ water path from the Mississippi River to the Great Lakes. The map also shows those railroad...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin for the Legislative Manual

Date: 1873
Description: Map of Wisconsin showing counties, county seats, cities with populations over 3,000, and congressional districts. The map also includes rivers, lakes, rail...
Map or Atlas

Rail Road and Sectional Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1873
Description: This hand-colored map of Wisconsin shows the township grid, railroads and proposed railroads, counties, cities, villages, and post offices. Population tabl...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Village of Greenleaf, Brown County, Wisconsin

Date: 1873
Description: A plat of the village of Greenleaf, Brown County, Wisconsin, showing the areas from Taintor Street to Day Street and Follett Street to Deuster Street. Inc...
Map or Atlas

Map of Proposed Bridge at La Crosse, Wisconsin

Date: 1873
Description: A map that covers parts of Winona and Houston Counties, Minnesota and La Crosse County, Wisconsin, showing the proposed railroad routes, constructed rail l...

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