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Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory Crew

Date: 1932
Description: Group portrait of a group of Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory workers. John Bordner is in the center of the top row. Stanta Bordner is beside him. Uppe...
Photograph

Sand Barrens

Date: 04 23 1937
Description: Sand barrens being used for poor crops. Note on back of print reads: "This should be in timber."
Photograph

Erosion in Middleton

Date: 04 1937
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...
Photograph

Surveying Crew at Sunny Brae Farm

Date: 1970
Description: "Surveying Crew on McArthur Rd. Sunny Brae farm is in background."
Print

H.I. Bliss Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of H.I. Bliss, a real estate agent, civil engineer, and county surveyor in La Crosse, Wisconsin. On the left a group of three men are surveying ...
Map or Atlas

State Park Devil's Lake Wisconsin : Course in Plane Table Surveying

Date: 1923
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 ...
Photograph

Railroad Surveying Party

Date: 07 01 1871
Description: Railroad surveying party in camp somewhere north of Green Bay. The men were surveyors for the Chicago & Northwestern railroad extension.
Book or Pamphlet

Western Wheeled Scraper Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1886
Description: Front cover featuring illustrations of wheeled scrapers, drag scrapers, railroad plows and road graders.
Map or Atlas

Map of Forest Lodge on Lake Namakagon

Date: 1930
Description: Original map made with watercolor and inkwash. Includes a legend of buildings, roads, natural features and other details of the lodge. Inset at bottom has ...
Map or Atlas

Plan of Fifty Thousand Acres of Land Situated in Lincoln County in the State of Virginia

Date: 1784
Description: Map showing fifty thousand acres of land in what will later become Kentucky, broken up into parcels labeled 1 through 50. No features are labeled, but the ...
Photograph

The Territorial Oak

Date: 1981
Description: View across street towards a very tall bur oak towering over nearby houses at the corner of Main and Franklin Streets. There is a small monument at its bas...
Photograph

Cram/Houghton Blaze Tree

Date: 1982
Description: A segment of the trunk of a pine bears the scars of a "blaze" carved with an ax and bearing the inscription: "XIX T. J. Cram, D. Houghton Aug 11, 1841." C...
Photograph

Hanerville Oak

Date: 1955
Description: A large, spreading bur oak standing directly in the intersection of Hammond and Hanerville Roads, both unpaved. There is a row of smaller trees lining Hane...

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