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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Color postcard aerial view. Caption reads: "'Glen Lock' at Irvine Park, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin." Caption on back reads: "This view from Irvine Park show... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | View along the shoreline of a river or lake. There are several houses or cabins on the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | View across water of a suspension bridge over a lake or river. Both shorelines are forested. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | This map shows Lake Wisconsin, roads, highways, parks, resort areas, camps, gardens, and Wisconsin State experimental game and fur farm. The back of the ma... |
| Date: | 01 08 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from 8th Street Bridge over the Manitowoc River towards Lake Michigan. There is a lighthouse in the distance. Ice is floating on the water. A... |
| Date: | 01 08 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over icy water towards ships in the shipyard on the left, and the cement company in the background. Cranes and industrial buildings are in th... |
| Date: | 01 07 1958 |
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| Description: | View from the Second Street bridge over the icy Ahnapee River towards Lake Michigan. A lighthouse is at the end of a jetty in the far background. Boats are... |
| Date: | 01 07 1958 |
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| Description: | View across water to ship moored at a dock. Smoke is coming out of the smokestack. Industrial buildings are across the water on the right. |
| Date: | 01 08 1958 |
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| Description: | View of Two Rivers Harbor from shoreline towards Lake Michigan. Snow is on the ground, and a fence made of thick posts and cable is along the shoreline on ... |
| Date: | 06 1959 |
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| Description: | This blue line print map shows lot and block numbers and dimensions, fair grounds, schools, court house, parks, and the street numbering system. The Crawfi... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | This blue line print map shows lot and block numbers and dimensions, additions, and some landownership. The Lawrence River is labeled. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | This map shows some land ownership, lot and block numbers, additions, fair grounds, streets, and railroads and is indexed. Mullet River and Mill Pond are l... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | This map shows reservation boundaries, U.S. township lines, highways, roads, rivers, and lakes. The lower left corner of the map includes a legend of "Conv... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | This map shows the location of Catholic churches, missions, and shrines. The map is color coded and includes a key in the bottom left corner. The back of t... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | This cadastral map shows highways, land owners, railroads, and rivers. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | This map shows roads, foot and canoe trails, railroads, resorts, lookout towers, camps, national and state forests, Indian reservation, and types of fish i... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | This map shows city, suburban, parochial and other types schools, with an explanation of symbols in the right margin. The original caption for the map read... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | This map shows regions in Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin roughly bounded by Lake Winnebago, the Kankakee River, Peoria, and Prairie du Chien. The... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | This map shows roads, trails, county lines, town borders, section lines, railroads, rivers, lakes, and Lake Michigan on the far right. The bottom margin in... |
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