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Procession of Mounds

Date: 1876
Description: A sketch map of the procession of Indian mounds on the two ridged field sites in Grant County.
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Topographical Sketch of the Battle-Field with Stone River

Date: 1863
Description: This map is a hand-colored, pen and ink, drawing by Ole R. Dahl of Co. B, 15 Wisconsin Infantry shows the battlefield at Stones River, depicting roads, str...
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Part of Town of Somers, Kenosha County, Wisconsin

Date: 10 19 1836
Description: This 1836 manuscript map shows the sections, windfalls, marshes, streams, prairies, acreages, and former mouth of the Pike River in what is now the eastern...
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Vanceburg Cemetery, Town of Sheridan, Dunn County, Wisconsin

Date: 1880
Description: This plat of Vanceburg Cemetery, Town of Sheridan, Dunn County, Wisconsin, likely dates from the 1880s and "is intended for the correction of names of peop...
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Proposed Plan for a Lock on the Fox River

Date: 08 17 1874
Description: This manuscript drawing provides a side elevation, plan, and perspective view for a proposed lock on the Fox River.
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Outgamis Lake

Date: 1905
Description: This pictorial representation of part of Lake Winnebago and the Fox River in 1703, showing interactions between white beaver hunters and the Iroquois is ta...
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Map of Milwaukee Made for M.L. Martin and Solomon Juneau, With Their Signatures

Date: 06 1837
Description: Pen-and-ink on paper. Shows riverside property west of the Milwaukee River. Inscribed by several early Milwaukee settlers, including Henry W. Cleveland, Cy...
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Perkins' Addition to the City of Milwaukee

Date: 1855
Description: Pen-and-ink on paper. Includes certifications signed by surveyor and by "John T. Perkins, by his attorney I.A. Lapham." Inscribed and signed certification ...
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Map of Mont-Fort : North East Quarter of North East Quarter of Section No. 25 in T. 6 R. 1 W.

Date: 1848
Description: Pen-and-ink on paper. Includes certifications signed by "Geo R. Bluntz, District Survey of Grant Co. W.T." and Ben C. Eastman.
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Monticello Wisconsin

Date: 08 1851
Description: Ink on paper. Includes explanation and a certification signed by Jacob Marty, Electa Marty, and a justice of the peace. Original map is very light and in f...
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Map of Woodman's Addition to Mineral Point

Date: 1856
Description: This map of Woodman's Addition in Mineral Point is pen-and-ink on paper. The map includes certifications signed by John B. Whitelaw (surveyor), Cyrus Woodm...
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Plot of Lewis's First Addition to the Town of West Columbus Situated in Columbia County and State of Wisconsin

Date: 1856
Description: This map is ink and pencil on paper and shows plat of the town, local streets, and blocks and lots by number. The map includes explanatory text.
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Town of St. Lawrence, [Wis.]

Date: 11 1836
Description: This map is pen-and-ink on paper and is a plat of a paper city on the Wisconsin River, in what is now the Town of Dekorra. The map shows lot and block numb...
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Map of the Survey of Section Thirty-four, : in Township No. 3 North and Range No. 3 west of the 4th Principal Meridian, Grant County, Wisconsin, Into In and Out Lots ... Being a Part of Potosi

Date: 06 1845
Description: This map is pen-and-ink on paper and shows the numbers, dimensions, and acreages of lots, as well as survey monuments and streets. Also included is a certi...
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Map Showing Boundaries of Original Purchases (1835) Forming Nucleus of Present-Day Milwaukee

Date: 1948
Description: This map is ink on tracing paper and shows acreages, wards, streets, rivers, and Lake Michigan. Also included are editorial notes in pencil.
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The Theatre of War in North America: With the Roads and a Table of the Distances

Date: 1776
Description: This was one of the first maps available for the general British populace featuring America during the Revolutionary War. It includes forts, cities, topogr...
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Mappe-monde: Suivant les Nouvelles Observations

Date: 1769
Description: Double hemispherical map showing the continents, islands, countries, and a few major cities of the world. The routes of a few explorers are depicted and la...
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A Map of the Whole Continent of America: Particularly Shewing the British Empire in the Northern Part of America, with the Divisions of the New Governments since the Accession of Canada and Florida

Date: 1780
Description: Map of North and South America, showing the boundaries of colonial territories, cities, settlements, rivers, lakes, and Native American land. Particular em...
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A Map of the French Settlements in North America

Date: 1747
Description: Map of America showing rivers, lakes, mountains, and regions, but primarily focusing on the French and Native American settlements along the Mississippi th...
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A Map of New England, and Nova Scotia: With Part of New York, Canada, and New Britain & the Adjacent islands of New Found Land, Cape Breton &c.

Date: 1758
Description: Map showing lakes, rivers, cities, Native American land, and the boundaries of French and English claims in America and Canada north of New York. A title c...

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