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| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Probably Native Americans receiving instructions on compass use for Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory. |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory mapping crew starting out in the snow for instruction. |
| Date: | 04 1937 |
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| Description: | From back of print: "Dane County, Town of Middleton, north 1/2 section of section 17 looking SW from a hill across the valley showing erosion and stump pas... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers erecting a steam driven pile driver while others survey for the railroad extension from the village of Prairie du Sac to the dam site on the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A group of men laying rails at Hawkins Mine while a man in the background is using surveying equipment near the base of a cliff face. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | "Surveying Crew on McArthur Rd. Sunny Brae farm is in background." |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | A map depicting the for systems of land description in Wisconsin, which include metes and bounds, U.S. System of Rectangular Surveys, Latitude and longitud... |
| Date: | 10 21 1855 |
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| Description: | Map of the Wisconsin and the Minnesota Territory showing the status of township surveys in Wisconsin and southeastern Minnesota. The Wisconsin reservation... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | This map of the battlefield on the North Anna River at Hanover Junction illustrates the Union positions in blue and Confederate positions in red. Roads, ra... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | A map of the triangulation and reconnaissance along the southwest corner of Wisconsin. The map shows the river systems, railroads, cities, and villages tha... |
| Date: | 06 1887 |
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| Description: | A map of southern Wisconsin, from the Illinois state border in the south to Rocky Run, Wisconsin in the north for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, showing th... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Map outlines mid and southern Wisconsin county boundaries in blue, and city/town lines are provided. Other marks include mines, plank roads, and railroads. |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | This map shows the entire state and part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It depicts creeks, rivers, lakes, railroads completed, railroads in progress, ... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | This map shows the township survey grid and identifies counties, named towns, rivers, lakes, railroads, plank roads, mines, and the Menomonee Reservation. ... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | This map depicts the township survey grid in Wisconsin, Michigan, northern Illinois, eastern Iowa, and southeastern Minnesota. Counties, named towns, citie... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | This map shows the township survey grid and identifies counties, named towns, cities and villages, rivers, lakes, and railroads. Boundaries are shown in bl... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | This map, which includes eastern Iowa and northern Illinois but omits the northern and northwestern tiers of counties in Wisconsin, shows the township surv... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | This map of the entire state of Wisconsin depicts the township survey grid and identifies counties, named towns, cities and villages, rivers, lakes, railro... |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | This manuscript shows the 1835 survey of the road corresponding approximately to a portion of County Trunk A in the Town of Scott, Brown County, Wisconsin.... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | This topographical map of Devil's Lake State Park, Sauk County, Wisconsin, is based on 1922-1923 surveys of the area by the University of Wisconsin Summer ... |
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