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Downriver from Grand Avenue Bridge

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Description: Schooners docked on river. The view is downriver from the Grand Avenue Bridge.
Photograph

Oshkosh Harbor

Date: 1855
Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of the Oshkosh harbor, showing the bridge over the Fox River and several moored sailing vessels.
Photograph

Downriver from State Street Bridge

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Description: View downriver from the State Street Bridge showing a large sailing vessel.
Photograph

Toward the Bay from Walker's Point Bridge

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Description: View down the river toward the Bay from Walker's Point Bridge, showing several steamboats.
Photograph

Old Hulks and Elevator A

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Description: View of old sailing boats at a shoreline with elevator A in the background.
Photograph

The Azov of Hamilton

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Description: The schooner "Azov of Hamilton" on the River St. Clair. The "Azov of Hamilton" was a 108 foot, 195 ton Canadian schooner built in 1866.
Print

Camp of the Gros Ventres of the Prairies (on the Upper Missouri)

Date: 1832
Description: Camp of the Gros Ventres along the upper Missouri River, with white travelers passing by in a boat.
Print

Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee

Date: 1853
Description: Bird's-eye map of Milwaukee looking east toward Lake Michigan from a bluff, long since graded into a slope, at about 6th Street between Wisconsin Avenue an...
Photograph

Milwaukee West from Mitchell Block

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Description: Elevated view west from Mitchell Block of warehouses, industrial buildings and a church in the background. In the foreground is a waterway with a schooner ...
Photograph

McCormick's Reaper Factory

Date: 1867
Description: Engraving of the McCormick Reaper Works as it appeared in 1867. The factory was located on the north bank of the Chicago River, east of the Rush Street bri...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of the City of Oconomowoc, Wis. Waukesha County

Date: 1885
Description: Bird's-eye map of Oconomowoc.
Map or Atlas

Kenosha, Wis.

Date: 12 1882
Description: Bird's-eye map of Kenosha.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Racine

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye map of Racine, with an inset of Racine College.
Map or Atlas

View of the City of Two Rivers, Wis.

Date: 1879
Description: Bird's-eye map of Two Rivers.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Whitewater

Date: 1870
Description: Bird's-eye view of Whitewater, with insets.
Print

Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Date: 1854
Description: Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee looking east toward Lake Michigan from a bluff, long since graded into a slope, at about 6th Street between Wisconsin Avenue a...
Print

Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee in 1853

Date: 1937
Description: Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee in 1853 details building features and city layout from southwest. Important buildings are numbered in a silhouette drawing bel...
Map or Atlas

The City of Chicago

Date: 1892
Description: Bird's-eye view of Chicago, with ships in the Lake Michigan harbor.
Map or Atlas

Voyages Of Samuel de Champlain

Date: 1632
Description: The Wisconsin portion of Champlain's 1632 map, augmented since the previous one, for navigation according to the true Meridien, by Sieur de Champlain. The ...
Drawing

Fort Howard Drawing

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Description: View of a fort with fortified walls and a flag flying from the fort. A river runs on the right of the image. A boat with sails floats on the river. Sold...

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