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| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | Pencil on tracing paper. Rough sketch of Milwaukee. Left top corner reads: "From Map of northern part of Illinois and the surveyed part of Wisconsin Territ... |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | Map of Milwaukee including the Milwaukee River and Lake Michigan shore. |
| Date: | 06 1837 |
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| Description: | Pen-and-ink on paper. Shows riverside property west of the Milwaukee River. Inscribed by several early Milwaukee settlers, including Henry W. Cleveland, Cy... |
| Date: | 1839 |
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| Description: | Courthouse and surrounding buildings. There are also two horse-drawn carriages, people on horseback, and a few pedestrians. |
| Ship Master: | James Doyle |
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| Nearby City: | Milwaukee, Milwaukee County |
| Body of water: | Lake Michigan |
| Date: | 1833 |
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| Description: | Published in James Smith Buck's, "Pioneer History of Milwaukee". Lake Michigan is on the right, with three rivers that combine at different points and reac... |
| Date: | 1833 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the Solomon Juneau fur trading post at Milwaukee in 1833. |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | Title page of Increase Lapham's A catalog of Plants & Shells, Found in the vicinity of Milwaukee on the West Side of Lake Michigan, |
| Location: | The Badger was either abandoned in the Milwaukee Harbor or wrecked at the mouth of the Milwaukee River. |
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| Ship Master: | Hubbell |
| Nearby City: | Milwaukee, Milwaukee County |
| Body of water: | Lake Michigan |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Plat map of Milwaukee. Pen-and-ink and watercolor on paper. Certifications on back side signed by several early settlers, as well as a justice of the peace... |
| Date: | 1838 |
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| Description: | A map of the proposed route of the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal from Fort Atkinson on the Rock River in the west to the city of Milwaukee and Lake Michig... |
| Location: | Mouth of the Milwaukee River. |
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| Nearby City: | Milwaukee, Milwaukee County |
| Body of water: | Lake Michigan |
| Date: | 1830 |
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| Description: | An ink on paper, hand-drawn map of the town of Milwaukee, showing the divisions and landownership within the town by private individuals as well as those l... |
| Date: | 1833 |
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| Description: | Drawing on a faint grid with Lake Michigan on the right, and the rivers on the left. Labeled is an Indian Village, J. Veiu, S. Juneau, and P. Juneau. Alo... |
| Date: | 1837 |
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| Description: | Map of the proposed route of the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal. |
| Date: | 07 22 1837 |
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| Description: | Table printed in Milwaukee Advertiser indicating the time of flowering of several wild plants at Milwaukee and near the head of the Pishtaka River. |
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