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| 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: | 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: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the city and the river. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View across dam on the Fox River, with a bridge further down on the left, and a tall building on the right. Caption reads: "Lower Dam, Appleton, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View across the lower dam, with a bridge in the distance on the left. Caption reads: "Appleton, Wis. Lower Dam." |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | The first electric street railway in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill of the freight steamer "Cornucopia" loading hides at the Hammond Brothers warehouse, with Lawrence University buildings on the hill... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of the Fox River, looking east, from railroad tracks. There is a bridge further down on the right. Buildings line the shoreline on the left, and a lar... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View from hill looking down towards the Fox river. Caption reads: "Fox River Water Power, Appleton, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View from hill looking down towards the Fox River. On the opposite shoreline are industrial buildings. Further down the river on the right are bridges. Cap... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View from street towards the Appleton High School. Caption reads: "Appleton High School, Appleton, Wis." |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline toward the bridge. Caption reads: "John Street Bridge, Appleton, Wis." |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Lawrence College, now Lawrence University, Memorial Chapel. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Elevated illustration of the Lawrence College Campus with snow on the ground. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View down Lover's Lane. Caption reads: "Lover's Lane, Appleton, Wis." |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | View down drive toward the gymnasium. Caption reads: "Alexander Gymnasium, Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View of Memorial Presbyterian Church. The congregation was incorporated in 1879 and the Gothic style church built in 1880. Caption reads: "Memorial Presbyt... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View of the Reeve residence on the corner of Lawrence and Onieda Streets. |
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| Description: | Elevated view across road and fence towards two houses and a yard, bordered by a damaged, white picket fence. The house burned down in 1867. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | This is the H.W. Tenney house built by Charles Patten in the late 1870's, bought by Mr. Tenney in the spring of 1881. The people are, (left to right): Eva ... |
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