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Wisconsin's capital city was less than twenty years old when Samuel H. Donnel sketched its appearance from the south side of Lake Menona. The Capitol, church spires, and business buildings can be seen in the center, and the first buildings of the University of Wisconsin appear at the far left.
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| Size: 12¼" x 18½" - Color, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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Wisconsin's capital city was less than twenty years old when Samuel H. Donnel sketched its appearance from the south side of Lake Menona. The Capitol, church spires, and business buildings can be seen in the center, and the first buildings of the University of Wisconsin appear at the far left.
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| Size: 12¼" x 18½" - Color, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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Date: 1717 |
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Sir Robert Mountgomery published this settlement plan for a portion of Georgia in his Discourse Concerning . . . a New Colony of 1717. It was to occupy an area 20 miles square with a town at the center surrounded by an agricultural belt and 640-acre estates.
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| Size: 12" x 12¼" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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This early Ohio town was the first capital of the old Northwest Territory. It had been planned by Rufus Putnam the year before this rare engraved plan was published. His design incorporated remnants of ancient Indian mounds found on the site at the mouth of the Muskingum River.
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| Size: 16¼" x 20" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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Planned in 1819, Tennessee's largest city grew rapidly as a major Mississippi River port. The bustling waterfront and prosperous business district are beautifully portrayed in this handsomely colored lithograph. This view is reduced to sixty per cent of its original size.
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| Size: 12¼" x 18¾" - Color, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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Planned in 1819, Tennessee's largest city grew rapidly as a major Mississippi River port. The bustling waterfront and prosperous business district are beautifully portrayed in this handsomely colored lithograph. This view is reduced to sixty per cent of its original size.
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| Size: 12¼" x 18¾" - Colored, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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From the Civil War to the end of the century Milwaukee's artists and lithographers produced hundreds of city views, and several publishers elsewhere sent drawings here to be printed. The firm of Beck and Pauli was responsible for much of this work, as seen here.
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| Size: 13¾" x 25¼" - Toned, Cover-stock Paper: $30.00 |
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From the Civil War to the end of the century Milwaukee's artists and lithographers produced hundreds of city views, and several publishers elsewhere sent drawings here to be printed. The firm of Beck and Pauli was responsible for much of this work, as seen here.
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| Size: 13¾" x 25¼" - Toned, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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By the time this lithograph was published Minneapolis had established itself as the state's dominant community. Ruger's view shows the town at the head of navigation on the Mississippi River where the St. Anthony Falls powered the mills and other industries of the growing city.
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| Size: 20¼" x 26½" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $32.50 |
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George Ellsbury and Vernon Green published several brightly-colored and precisely drawn lithographic city views of towns in Minnesota and adjoining regions. Their two most important prints are this of Minneapolis and the companion print of St. Paul illustrated below. Ellsbury pictured Minneapolis from the east bank of the Mississippi, with the St. Anthony Falls and its flour mills at the left and the commercial and residential districts of the city in the center and right.
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| Size: 10½" x 18½" - Color, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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