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The State of Wisconsin Compiled from the Latest Authorities

Date: 1856
Description: This map show the surveyed southern part of state and includes "profile of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail Road." Counties are shown in pink, green, blu...
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Madison Township, Dane County, Wisconsin

Date: 1851
Description: Plat map of the Town of Madison (Township 7N, Range 9E), from Volume 4, Federal Survey Plat Books.
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View of the City of Milwaukee

Date: 1856
Description: View looking west from Lake Michigan with several steam ships and sailing vessels in harbor. There is a lighthouse to left of center, along shoreline.
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Oshkosh, Wis. from H.L. Cottrill's Block

Date: 1850
Description: Bird's-eye view of business district of Oshkosh, "drawn after nature" by the artist.
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Waukesha, Wis.

Date: 1857
Description: Elevated view of Waukesha with two women wearing dresses with a boy in long pants and tam o'shanter hat in foreground against a split-rail fence. Beyond th...
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Wisconsin State Capitol (Second) and City Map

Date: 1855
Description: Part of George Harrison's "Map of the City of Madison," showing the development of the isthmus and the small size of the second Capitol (54' x 104') in com...
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Diagram of Mineral Point Mining Co.'s Mine

Date: 1850
Description: Lithograph of a map drawn to indicate a mine on land owned by Mineral Point Mining Co. in the lead region of southwestern Wisconsin.
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Mineral Point Railroad Map

Date: 1856
Description: Wisconsin map illustrating the Mineral Point Railroad and its connections.
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Fond du Lac Map 1/4

Date: 1857
Description: A quarter section of a map of the city of Fond du Lac. This section features an illustration of Amory Hall and the Exchange Bank of Darling & Co.
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Fond du Lac Map 2/4

Date: 1857
Description: A quarter section of a map of the City of Fond du Lac featuring the Empire Branch Plank Road.
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Fond du Lac Map 3/4

Date: 1857
Description: Quarter section of a map of the city of Fond du Lac featuring the Waupun Plank Road.
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Fond du Lac Map 4/4

Date: 1857
Description: Quarter section of a map of the city of Fond du Lac featuring an illustration of the Lewis House.
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"Madison, The Capital of Wisconsin" Map

Date: 1856
Description: Isthmus of Madison, including Lake Mendota, or Great Lake, and Lake Menona [sic].
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Harrison's Map of Madison

Date: 1855
Description: Map of the city of Madison, Dane County, published by George Harrison, surveyed and drawn by P. McCabe, and engraved by J.H. Colton & Co., New York. In add...
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Plat of Madison

Date: 1854
Description: Madison Plat Map.
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Map of Madison and the Four Lakes Country

Date: 1855
Description: Map of Madison and surrounding communities, referred to as the four lakes country. Text bordering the map includes an excerpt of a letter written by Horace...
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Map of Sauk County

Date: 1859
Description: Map featuring various views of buildings and scenes from Sauk County.
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Ethnographical Map of the Indian Tribes of the United State A.D. 1600

Date: 1857
Description: Information depicting the history, condition and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States: collected and prepared under the direction of the Bur...
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Colton's Wisconsin

Date: 1859
Description: This 1859 railroad map shows counties, cities, rivers and lakes in the entire state of Wisconsin. It includes an inset depicting the railroads in Milwaukee...
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Racine & Mississippi Railroad and its connections

Date: 1850
Description: [... through northern United States from New York to Minnesota]. Lithography by T. Sinclair. From Perrault papers, Lucien S. Hanks, donor.

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