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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | During the War of 1812, the only battle fought in Wisconsin was in Prairie du Chien, in 1814. Made fifty-six years later, this birds eye drawing depicts th... |
| Date: | 1803 |
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| Description: | Cours du Mississippi : comprenant la Louisiane, les 2 Florides, une partie des Etats-Unis, et pays adjacents. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Alma was platted and settled in 1855, on a narrow strip of land between high bluffs and the Mississippi River. Its location made it a popular shipping cent... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of La Crosse with nine insets of residences, schools, and the Court House and Jail. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of La Crosse from the Mississippi River. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of La Crosse, with six insets including residences, a store front, The John Gund Brewing Company, and C. & J. Michel Brewing Company. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map over the Mississippi River of Fountain City. Paddle steamers and steamboats are on the river, and bluffs are in the background. |
| Date: | 1804 |
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| Description: | A map of Lewis and Clark's Track across the western portion of North America from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean by order of the Executive of t... |
| Date: | 1673 |
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| Description: | Facsimile of the autograph map of the Mississippi or Conception River drawn by Father Marquette at the time of his voyage. From the original preserved at S... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | This map depicts the route of the 1842 overland trip by wagon made by the Reverend Alfred Brunson and some copper miners from Prairie du Chien to the mouth... |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored maps and a series of geological cross sections of the Mississippi River between the Falls of St. Anthony and the mouth of the Wisconsin River ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A geological survey map of Wisconsin, with hand-colored portions showing the surveys completed from 1873 to 1875. Although the title and legend are in Wel... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Published in Germany a year after Wisconsin entered statehood, this map shows prairies, swamps, lakes, mounds, limestone deposits, and lead and copper mine... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A hand-colored, geological map of Wisconsin show the progress of the state geological survey in 1873 and 1874. Other elements displayed in the map include... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | This U.S. Geological Survey map of Wisconsin shows counties, cities and villages, lighthouses, Indian reservations, military reservations, and bird and gam... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | This map is pen, ink, and pencil on tracing paper. The map was traced from U.S. Geological Survey map of Wisconsin, compiled in 1910-1911, and printed in 1... |
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