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Map of Wisconsin Railroads and Grants

Date: 1875
Description: A hand-drawn and colored map of Wisconsin showing the railroad routs and railroad land grants La Cross and Milwaukee Railroad, St. Croix and Tomah Railroad...
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Wisconsin Map of Land Offices

Date: 1886
Description: Wisconsin map showing land offices, railroads completed, railroad land grants and Indian reservations.
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Map of Wisconsin of the Land Grants of Superior and St. Croix Railroad and Bayfield Branch

Date: 1856
Description: A map showing rail lines in Wisconsin and the railroad land grants of the Superior & St. Croix Railroad in the present-day northwestern Wisconsin counties ...
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United States Land Grant to the Chicago & North-Western Railway Company

Date: 1888
Description: Map of northern Wisconsin showing the Chicago and North-Western Railway Company’s land grants within the counties of Forest, Florence, Langlade, Marinette,...
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Diagrammatic Map Showing the Established Limits of Land Grants Made to Various Railroads in Wisconsin

Date: 1875
Description: This manuscript map shows the limits of the land grants made to railroads in northwestern Wisconsin along the corridor between Portage and Hudson, along th...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin Cancer Research Grant Recipients

Date: 03 25 1952
Description: University of Wisconsin cancer research scientists who received grants from the Wisconsin division of the American Cancer Society are: Seated (left to righ...
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Governor Schmedeman Signing Mortgage Bill

Date: 02 14 1933
Description: Governor Albert G. Schmedeman signing mortgage bill which grants moratoriums to Wisconsin farm and home mortgages. Left to right: Senator William Shannors...
Photograph

Governor Schmedeman Shaking Hands

Date: 02 14 1933
Description: Governor Albert G. Schmedeman shaking hands after signing mortgage bill which grants moratoriums to Wisconsin farm and home mortgages. Left to right are: S...
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Sketch of the Public Surveys in the State of Wisconsin and Territory of Minnesota.

Date: 1864
Description: A hand-colored survey map of southeastern Minnesota and Wisconsin, showing the locations of railroads, land grant railroads, land offices, and the 6 and 15...
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St. Paul and Sioux City Railroad : and Branches, Showing Their Land Grants

Date: 1880
Description: This map covers parts of Minnesota, Iowa, and South Dakota and advertised 1,000,000 acres of land available. Communities, roads, and railroad lines are lab...
Photograph

Three Navaho Men

Date: 1904
Description: Three Navaho men, Tonenili, Tobadzischini, and Nayenezgani.
Photograph

Plains Indians

Date: 1908
Description: Three Plains Indians on horses with full headdresses.
Photograph

Navaho Medicine-Man

Date: 1904
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of a Navaho medicine man.
Photograph

Two Plains Indians on Horseback

Date: 
Description: Two plains Indians on horseback.
Map or Atlas

The Provinces of New York and New Jersey; With Part of Pensilvania, and the Province of Quebec

Date: 1776
Description: Map of New Jersey and New York, showing cities, forts, roads, counties, townships, land grants, rivers, lakes and several topographical features. Much of t...
Photograph

The Pool — Apache

Date: 1906
Description: An Apache man standing by the edge of a pool of water.
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin Land Grant for the Wisconsin Central Railroad

Date: 1896
Description: A map showing the Wisconsin Central Railroad lines in Wisconsin, northern Illinois, eastern Minnesota, and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The area of the map ...
Photograph

The Oath — Apsaroke

Date: 1908
Description: Three Crow Indians with Buffalo skull at their feet take an oath. Signed by Curtis, 1909.
Photograph

Flathead Camp

Date: 1910
Description: Group of American Indian dwellings.
Photograph

Qahatika Girl

Date: 1907
Description: A head and shoulders portrait of a Qahatika girl.

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