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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...
Photograph

Pine River & Stevens Point RR Locomotive

Date: 03 1876
Description: Side view of the locomotive purchased by the Pine River and Stevens Point Railroad, being hauled over land from Lone Rock to Richland Center. In the backgr...
Photograph

View of Wisconsin State Capitol with Flags

Date: 1876
Description: "View of the Capitol, with all the Flags" one of four "Different Views of Parades in the Streets" identified in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic View...
Photograph

Madison's Federal Post Office

Date: 1875
Description: The City of Madison, Federal Post Office, at the corner of Wisconsin and Mifflin Streets. The cornerstone was laid on May 27, 1869. The building was demoli...
Photograph

Park Hotel and Surrounding Churches

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph looking south from the post office at the corner of Mifflin Street and Wisconsin Avenue across one corner of the Capitol Square toward Grace Ep...
Photograph

Post Office Exterior

Date: 1876
Description: Stereograph. Building also housed the Custom House. Corner of Milwaukee and Wisconisn Streets.
Photograph

Park Hotel and Surrounding Churches - Anaglyph

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph looking south from the post office at the corner of Mifflin Street and Wisconsin Avenue across one corner of the Capitol Square toward Grace Ep...
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

Cram's New Sectional Map of the State of Wisconsin

Date: 1874
Description: This hand-colored map of Wisconsin and the western portion of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, shows the township grid, railroads completed and in progress, cou...
Map or Atlas

Sectional Map of the State of Wisconsin

Date: 1878
Description: A hand-colored map of Wisconsin and the western portion of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, showing the railroads that are completed and in progress, counties, ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Jackson County, Wisconsin

Date: 1879
Description: A map of Jackson County, Wisconsin, shows the township and section survey, landownership, towns, villages, buildings, roads, railroads, county land, and st...
Map or Atlas

Barron County, State of Wisconsin

Date: 1871
Description: This map of Barron County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, post offices, dwellings, schools, roads, swa...
Map or Atlas

Map of Trempealeau County, Wisconsin

Date: 1877
Description: This 1877 map of Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, sections, towns, cities and villages, land ownership and acreages, roads...
Map or Atlas

Map of Vernon County, Wisconsin

Date: 1878
Description: This 1878 map of Vernon County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, sections, towns, cities and villages, land ownership and acreages, roads, rai...
Map or Atlas

Official Map of Brown County, Wisconsin

Date: 1870
Description: This 1870 map of Brown County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities, villages and post offices, land ownership, roads, rai...
Map or Atlas

Map of Crawford County, Wisconsin

Date: 1878
Description: This map of Crawford County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, sections, towns, cities and villages, land ownership and acreages, roads, railro...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wood County, Wis.

Date: 1878
Description: This 1878 map of Wood County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities, villages and post offices, landownership, roads, railr...
Map or Atlas

Map of Kewaunee County Wisconsin 1876

Date: 1876
Description: Map shows townships and sections, landownership and acreages, roads, railroads, post offices, and farms. Sections appear in pink, yellow, and blue. On the ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Polk County Wisconsin

Date: 1871
Description: Map created between 1871 and 1880. Shows townships, post offices, a possible railroad to Penoka Iron Range, and the North Wisconsin Railroad.
Photograph

Elevated View Over De Pere

Date: 1875
Description: Elevated view over De Pere. In the foreground is the De Pere News Office and Post Office building. Behind it people are walking on the bridge over the Fox ...

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