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Monona Bay in Madison

Date: 1904
Description: Monona Bay from the railroad trestle looking southwest, close to where the railroad tracks cross North Shore Drive, (now Brittingham Park), with old houses...
Photograph

Shacks along Lake Monona

Date: 1906
Description: Shacks at the foot of North Main Street along Lake Monona near what later became Brittingham Park.
Photograph

Foot of West Main Street

Date: 1906
Description: Area at the foot of West Main Street, which is now Brittingham Park. Weatherworn buildings are on the right.
Photograph

"John Muir Lake"

Date: 1960
Description: View of Ennis Lake, also known as Fountain Lake, located in the John Muir Memorial Park near Montello. As a boy, John Muir lived with his family on the sho...
Photograph

"John Muir Lake"

Date: 1960
Description: View of Ennis Lake, also known as Fountain Lake, located in the John Muir Memorial Park near Montello. As a boy, John Muir lived with his family on the sho...
Postcard

Town Across Lake

Date: 1905
Description: View of town behind a prairie field and a lake. Caption reads: "Packwaukee, Wis."
Map or Atlas

1858 Map of Racine County, Wisconsin

Date: 1972
Description: This map on 5 sheets features a title page sheet with business directory and shows section numbers, roads, railroads, saw mills, churches, blacksmith shops...
Map or Atlas

Agricultural and Dairy Lands in Reliable Wisconsin

Date: 1914
Description: This early 20th century map shows the township and range system, sections, railroads, roads, lakes, wetlands, and streams in the western Sawyer County town...
Map or Atlas

Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation

Date: 1974
Description: This 1968 map identifies resorts in the Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation region of Wisconsin, covering parts of Iron, Vilas, Oneida, and Price counties. ...
Map or Atlas

Suggestive Plan for Madison, a Model City

Date: 1910
Description: Shows existing and proposed parks, railroads, and marshes in a color coded key. "Contour interval 20 feet." Lake Wingra, Lake Mendota, and Lake Monona are ...
Map or Atlas

Timber and Farming Lands Map

Date: 1908
Description: Title at top: "G.F. Sanborn Company Timber and Farming Lands." Map shows acreages, roads, railroads, and swamps in parts of Vilas and Oneida counties.
Map or Atlas

University of Wisconsin Arboretum & Wild Life Refuge at Madison, Wisconsin

Date: 1932
Description: This map shows local streets, section lines, Nakoma Country Club, part of Lake Forest, and part of Lake Wingra. The map includes a legend showing areas of ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Mosinee

Date: 1982
Description: Color map. "Topography by photogrammetric methods from aerial photographs taken 1963. Revised from aerial photographs taken 1978. Field checked 1979. Map e...
Map or Atlas

Map of Rib Lake

Date: 1979
Description: A color map of Rib Lake, Wisconsin.
Postcard

Lake Metonga

Date: 1905
Description: Photographic postcard view of Lake Metonga, with marshy area in foreground. Caption reads: "On Famous Lake Metonga, Crandon, Wis."
Postcard

Greetings From Cumberland, Wisconsin

Date: 1950
Description: Aerial view of the Island City surrounded by the waters of Beaver Dam Lake, and by a vacation and recreation area that includes some fifty lakes within a r...
Map or Atlas

Map of Forest Lodge on Lake Namakagon

Date: 1930
Description: Original map made with watercolor and inkwash. Includes a legend of buildings, roads, natural features and other details of the lodge. Inset at bottom has ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Lac Court Oreilles Indian Reservation

Date: 1911
Description: This map shows lakes, rivers, swamps, state swamp land, trails and railroads. Includes a township diagram.
Map or Atlas

Big Eau Pleine Reservoir, Marathon County : Map No. 4504

Date: 1951
Description: This map shows land use, dwellings, resorts, camps, marshes, springs, dams, lake bottom composition, and access. The map includes a fish species table, geo...
Map or Atlas

Plat of the U. States Road from Fond du Lac, by Fox Lake, to the Wiskonsin River

Date: 1900
Description: This map shows portion of the military road from Fond du Lac to the Wisconsin River near Fort Winnebago, with mile markers and adjacent land use. A few pro...

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