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| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | College Avenue looking west from the corner of Morrison Street. The building on the left is the Adkins Building, at the right is the Johnston House. This w... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | View across water of a Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad locomotive (No #33) pulling a pay car across a trestle over the Fox River. Several large... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | First electric street railway service in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Birds-eye drawing of Appleton, Outagamie Co., depicting street names and street layout, houses, the Fox River, the court house, jail, school houses, Lawren... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Appleton. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Trees interspersed with college buildings in lower half of image, with Fox River bisecting the middle, and a few buildings across the river with open fiel... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Atlas Mill. The paper making mill on the Fox River was built in 1878 and proved that paper could be made efficiently from gro... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Building housing the very first central electric light station for distribution of incandescent lighting. The sign on the building reads: "Vulcan St." |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | "Hearthstone," a house built in 1880-1882 by paper mill owner Henry J. Rogers, was the first residence electrified from a centrally located hydroelectric p... |
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| Description: | Aloah Beach on Lake Winnebago. There is a board sidewalk on the left. A sailboat is out on the lake on the right near the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the city and the river. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down sidewalk on the left with the theatre across the street on the right. Caption reads: "Oneida St. Appleton Theatre, Appleton, Wis." |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | View of a bridge reaching across the Fox River. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Scene on canal, Fox River, Appleton, Wis." Elevated view from hill looking down towards the river. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Appleton Public Library and City Hall. Caption reads: "City Hall and Public Library, Appleton, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The interior of the Appleton Public Library. Caption reads: "Interior of Public Library, Appleton, Wis." |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View down College Avenue. Caption reads: "College Ave. looking East from Oneida St., Appleton, Wis." |
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