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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 ...
Map or Atlas

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...
Map or Atlas

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...
Photograph

Plains Indians

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

Two Plains Indians on Horseback

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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...
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

At the Water's Edge — Piegan

Date: 1910
Description: American Indians sitting near dwellings at the edge of a body of water.
Map or Atlas

Amérique Septentrionale: Dressée sur les Relations les Plus Modernes des Voyageurs et Navigateurs, et Divisée Suivant les Differentes Possessions des Européens

Date: 1758
Description: This map of the north-west hemisphere shows the cities, lakes, rivers, mountains, and political borders. In the upper left corner sits a decorative cartouc...
Photograph

Cañon de Chelly — Navaho

Date: 1904
Description: The original caption reads: "A wonderfully scenic spot is this in northeastern Arizona, in the heart of the Navaho country — one of their strongholds, in f...
Photograph

Village of the Kalispel

Date: 1910
Description: The original caption reads: "The Kalispel, who now number about a hundred, are scattered along the eastern side of the Pend d'Oreille river in eastern Wash...
Photograph

On Spokane River

Date: 1910
Description: The original caption reads: "Spokane river, from a short distance below its head in Coeur d'Alene lake to its confluence with the Columbia, flows through t...

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