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Martin

Date: 1800
Description: Ink and pencil on paper. A paper city on the site of what is now Appleton, Wisconsin. Shows plat of city, streets, and Fox River. Includes textual descript...
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Winnebago City : on Swan Lake, [Wisconsin].

Date: 1830
Description: This plat map is pen-and-ink on tracing paper and shows a paper city planned in the late 1830's located on the shore of Swan Lake, Columbia County, Wiscons...
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Map of Pekatolica

Date: 1836
Description: This map is ink and watercolor on paper and shows a plat of a paper city (a city planned but never built). Some streets and the Pekatolica River are labele...
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Town of St. Lawrence, [Wis.]

Date: 11 1836
Description: This map is pen-and-ink on paper and is a plat of a paper city on the Wisconsin River, in what is now the Town of Dekorra. The map shows lot and block numb...
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Railroad Map of Lake Superior Region -- Extension

Date: 
Description: Hand-drawn, folded extension of map, rendered on notebook paper.
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin City

Date: 1836
Description: This is a cadastral map and shows proposed lot and block numbers for a paper city on the banks of the Rock River. Also shown are two public squares and som...
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Plat of Wisconsinapolis

Date: 1900
Description: This map shows a paper city located on Swan Lake in Columbia County. It includes lot and block numbers, two public squares, and two little lakes of "good w...
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Baltimore : [Wisconsin Territory]

Date: 1900
Description: Plat map showing a paper city located on the Wisconsin River. The map includes a public square, street names, and a note written by Francis Headman.
Map or Atlas

Bishop's Subdivison [sic] of Lot 46 Wilson's Add to Dodgeville

Date: 1930
Description: This map is pen and pencil on paper and shows local streets, lots by number, and section divisions.
Map or Atlas

Menomonee Reserve

Date: 1840
Description: This map is pencil on paper and shows rivers, granite locations, and selected landmarks. Relief is shown by hachures.
Map or Atlas

Rough Map of Milwalky and the Adjacent Country

Date: 1835
Description: This map is pen-and-ink on paper. The map shows landowners in "Milwalky" or present day Milwaukee. Includes "list of property offered to Mr. Walker". The m...
Map or Atlas

East Troy

Date: 1900
Description: Pen and pencil on tracing paper. Shows landownership by name, local streets, local businesses, mill pond, creek, and proposed railroad.
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin City on the Wisconsin River

Date: 1836
Description: This map shows proposed lot and block numbers for a paper city located in township 10 north, range 7 east, Wisconsin Territory, now the Town of West Point,...
Map or Atlas

Copy of Map of Newburgh, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Territory

Date: 1836
Description: This map is ink on tracing paper and shows block numbers, streets, lot numbers of block no. 6, and a public square in Newburgh, a paper city (a city planne...
Map or Atlas

Leonard's Addition to Salem Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: Map is ink and pencil on paper. Map showing Leonard's Addition to Salem Wisconsin in Kenosha County. The plats are numbered.
Map or Atlas

Village of North La Crosse

Date: 1800
Description: This map of North La Crosse is ink and pencil on paper and shows lot ownership and buildings.
Map or Atlas

Racine & Mississippi Railroad and its connections

Date: 1850
Description: [... through northern United States from New York to Minnesota]. Lithography by T. Sinclair. From Perrault papers, Lucien S. Hanks, donor.
Map or Atlas

Map of the Milwaukee Bay Showing the Site of the Proposed Harbor

Date: 1836
Description: This map is pen-and-ink on paper and shows marshlands, rivers, creeks, a quarry, and a few roads.
Map or Atlas

Topographic Map of the Turville Estate : Sec. 25, Madison

Date: 1906
Description: This map is pen-and-ink on paper. The relief is shown by contours and spot heights. "5’ contours." Includes area table.
Map or Atlas

Map of Jefferson, Waukesha, and Milwaukee Counties

Date: 1840
Description: Map shows three Wisconsin territories, Jefferson, Waukesha, and Milwaukee. Map is ink, pencil, and watercolor on paper. Relief shown by hachures.

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