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Title	Wisconsin Territory 1837
Full Title	Topographical map of Wisconsin Territory / compiled from the Public Surveys on file in the Surveyor General's office... by Samuel Morrison, Elisha Dwelle [and] Joshua Hathaway ; engraved by Doolittle & Munson.
Creator	Doolittle & Munson
Contributors	Wisconsin. Board of Commissioners of Public Lands
Publication Date	1837
Map Publisher	Wisconsin. Board of Commissioners of Public Lands
Subject	Wisconsin--Maps Topographic maps
Continent	North and Central America
Country	United States
State/Province	Wisconsin
Notes	Shows Wisconsin south of the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers and east of Green Bay. Relief shown by hachures. Written in ink: "From the collection of Eugene Field, presented to John Suetterle Taylor, June 1925."
Essay Description of Item	This is the first large-scale map of the Wisconsin Territory based on actual surveys. The map was compiled and published by the surveyors Samuel Morrison, Elisha Dwelle, and Joshua Hathaway and engraved on three copperplates. In 1785, the United States Congress passed the Land Survey Ordinance, which provided for a system of square townships six miles on a side, divided into 36 one-square-mile sections. The map shows townships in the Wisconsin Territory surveyed by 1837. Also depicted are roads, trails, natural land forms, vegetation, mill sites, and the lead and copper deposits known at the time. The long lots in Green Bay and Prairie du Chien reflect the French system of land holdings along riverfronts. Maps such as these helped immigrants and settlers understand the survey system and locate the land they bought. A prospective buyer could go to any U.S. Government Land Office and look in tract books that contained detailed descriptions of the land. As the inscription states, the map once belonged to the American writer Eugene Field (1850-95.)
Type	Image
Scale	[ca. 1:200,000]
Original Collection	American Geographical Society Library - Maps
Original Item Description	1 map : col. ; 113 x 90 cm.
Original Item ID	(AGS) (RARE) 893 B-1837
Language	en
Repository	American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Digital Publisher	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Rights	The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Digital ID	am004826
Digital Format	image/tif; image/jp2
Date.Digitized	2009
Digital Collection	American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection

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