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Map or Atlas

Wausau Looking North

Date: 1891
Description: Bird's-eye map of Wausau, looking north with ninety-eight businesses, industries, churches, schools, and civic buildings identified in location key below i...
Photograph

Spring Runoff at Big Bull Falls

Date: 1916
Description: Water churns under a railroad bridge as the spring thaw swells the Wisconsin River.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Wausau

Date: 1879
Description: This map is a bird's-eye view of Wausau, the County Seat of Marathon County. The map features an index of points of interest.
Photograph

Kids Drawing

Date: 05 02 1964
Description: Sitting on the school lawn, students draw Highway 51, Marathon Mill, Rib mountain and the Wisconsin River.
Photograph

View of Wausau, Wisconsin

Date: 1928
Description: Elevated view of the main street with the Wisconsin River in the top left corner. The street just outside the Hall Garage Company is lined with cars.
Photograph

Wausau, Wisconsin

Date: 1890
Description: Elevated view looking up the Wisconsin River, with Wausau in the background. There are railroad cars on a bridge on the right.
Postcard

Wreckage Left by Flood

Date: 07 1912
Description: Elevated view across the Wisconsin River, showing the wreckage left by the disastrous flood of July 24, 1912. A power dam on the Wisconsin River above Waus...
Postcard

Stroller's Bridge

Date: 1909
Description: View from shoreline towards Stroller's Bridge. Caption reads: "Strollers Bridge and the Old Wisconse, Wausau, Wis."
Photograph

Wausau

Date: 1950
Description: Aerial view of Wausau.
Photograph

Aerial View of Wausau

Date: 1925
Description: Aerial view of buildings in the downtown area.
Photograph

Bridge Over Wisconsin River

Date: 1918
Description: View of the bridge over the Wisconsin River at Big Bull Falls, seen at low water.
Photograph

Aerial View of Schofield

Date: 1926
Description: Aerial view with Wisconsin River. Caption reads: "Schofield Home Coming June 16-17-18-1927". The wing of an airplane is in the right foreground.
Photograph

Rib Mountain

Date: 1950
Description: A view from Rib Mountain looking southeast toward Rothschild and the Wisconsin River. The sign on the road in the foreground reads: "Dangerous Road, Drive ...
Photograph

Falls Scene on the Wisconsin

Date: 
Description: View up the Wisconsin River showing the dam and a bridge. A streetcar and a small group of people are gathered on one end.
Map or Atlas

Map of Rothschild Wisconsin

Date: 1965
Description: Map shows original plat, plat additions, and lot measurements for Rothschild, Wisconsin. Lake Wausau and the Wisconsin River are labelled. Map reads: "Comp...
Map or Atlas

City of Wausau

Date: 1932
Description: This map of Wausau shows lots and landownership, buildings, roads, railroads, parks, city wards, and the Wisconsin River. The map features an inset map sho...
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of Wausau Wisconsin

Date: 1955
Description: This map of Wausau distributed by the Wausau Chamber of Commerce was originally published in July of 1940 and shows the Wisconsin River. The map includes a...
Photograph

Big Bull Falls

Date: 1916
Description: Water of Big Bull Falls or the Wisconsin River rapidly flows underneath two railroad bridges. Pedestrians cross the bridges while peering over at the over...
Photograph

Posing on the Cooks Tent

Date: 1912
Description: View looking down from riverbank of four businessmen and the log driving cook posing on the cooks tent barge during the log drive.
Map or Atlas

Map of Mosinee

Date: 1982
Description: Color map. "Topography by photogrammetric methods from aerial photographs taken 1963. Revised from aerial photographs taken 1978. Field checked 1979. Map e...

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