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| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Sturgeon Bay Canal Lighthouse, with a group of people in a motorboat in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | The harbor piers and the entrance to the Sturgeon Bay ship canal. Men are standing on the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of the Sturgeon Bay ship canal. Caption reads: "Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal." |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View of the canal. Caption reads: "The Canal, Stugeon[sic] Bay, Wis." |
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| Description: | View of the bridge spanning the Sturgeon Bay canal. |
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| Description: | View from the shoreline of a bridge spanning the Sturgeon Bay canal. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | This map shows block numbers, wards, roads, railroads, parks, and selected buildings and includes a "Milwaukee city street guide" as well as a guide to pub... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | This map shows the Wisconsin and Fox River routes in green, and the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal routes in red. Prairie du Chien, Fort Winnebago, Grand C... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | This detailed map was drawn nearly a decade after Wisconsin entered statehood. It depicts the entire state, northern Illinois and part of the upper peninsu... |
| Date: | 1847 |
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| Description: | A hand-colored map that shows the area south and east of the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers, as well as a few landmarks just north of that area. The township gri... |
| Date: | 1839 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin was considered part of Michigan Territory until 1836, a year before Michigan entered statehood. Drawn in 1839, this map shows the state of Michig... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin was considered part of Michigan Territory until 1836, a year before Michigan entered statehood. Drawn four years before Wisconsin entered stateho... |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin was considered part of Michigan Territory until 1836, a year before Michigan entered statehood. Drawn three years before Wisconsin entered stateh... |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Brightly-colored map exhaustively marks the townships, County Towns and villages of Wisconsin. It also shows rivers, canals, railroads, and plank roads. Ea... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | This nine-part map from the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads identifies federal and state highways in Wisconsin by pavement type. County, forest, park, and publ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | This nine-part map from the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads identifies federal and state highways in Wisconsin by pavement type. County, forest, park, and publ... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | This map shows the railroads both completed and under construction in southern Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri. Railroad terminals, junctions, and ... |
| Date: | 1837 |
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| Description: | A pen and ink on tracing paper, hand-drawn and colored map the proposed route of the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal, ranging from the Rock River in the wes... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| 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... |
| 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... |
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