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Crowded Pier and Steamboat

Date: 1878
Description: View from shoreline of a large crowd on a pier waiting for a crowded steam excursion boat.
Photograph

People aboard Steamboat

Date: 1878
Description: People seated in a small steamboat tied at a pier on a lake. A flag flies from the bow and there is a two-story frame house on the shore. This photograph m...
Photograph

Bain's Camp

Date: 
Description: Several men and women sit outdoors on the grounds of Bain's Camp in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin.
Print

Fishing Station

Date: 
Description: Engraving of a wooden shack on a Lake Michigan beach surrounded by rowboats, a campfire, and a wooded bluff. Two men stand on the beach near the water.
Map or Atlas

Kenosha County, Wisconsin

Date: 1946
Description: A map showing the roads, railroads, towns, cities and villages, streams and lakes, airports, schools, churches, cemeteries, and golf courses in Kenosha Cou...
Map or Atlas

Water Power Location in the Fox River Valley, Wisconsin

Date: 1892
Description: This map shows the dams and locks of the Fox River between Neenah, in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, and Kaukauna, in Outagamie County. The cities and villag...
Map or Atlas

Fox-Wisconsin Water Route

Date: 1906
Description: This map, which shows the Mascoutin village site near Berlin, Wisconsin, the Fox River, and parts of the Wisconsin and Wolf Rivers, was published in the Pr...
Map or Atlas

Outgamis Lake

Date: 1905
Description: This pictorial representation of part of Lake Winnebago and the Fox River in 1703, showing interactions between white beaver hunters and the Iroquois is ta...
Map or Atlas

Kenosha County, Wisconsin

Date: 1850
Description: A map which includes the ink and pencil annotations showing the sections, sold parcels of land, and streams and lakes on a printed township base map for To...
Map or Atlas

Land cover map of Kenosha County

Date: 1934
Description: A land inventory map of Kenosha County. The top left features a legend of "Land Cover" and "Roads and Other Improvements". Lake Michigan is labelled to the...
Map or Atlas

Map of Kenosha County, Wisconsin

Date: 1959
Description: This map shows public access sites, public beaches and parks, other public shorelines, boat liveries, public hunting and fishing grounds, railroads, roads,...
Map or Atlas

Southeastern Wisconsin and Northeastern Illinois, Constituting Trading Area for the Village of Southport (Kenosha)

Date: 1954
Description: This photocopy map shows a early sketch of the settlement Southport. Rivers, lakes, other settlements, county boundaries, and roads are labeled. A portion ...
Photograph

Zerk Family Christmas Card

Date: 
Description: A holiday card featuring Lake Dunmovin on the Zerk estate. The mansion is in the background on the left. On the opposite shoreline on the right is an arche...
Postcard

Lake House

Date: 1912
Description: Text on front reads: "Lake House, Twin Lakes, Wis." A group of people are gathered on the lawn at the shore of the lake. Two seated people hold a pennant t...

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