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First Streetcars in Wisconsin

Date: 1886
Description: First electric street railway service in Wisconsin.
Map or Atlas

Appleton Outagamie County, Wisconsin

Date: 1867
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...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Appleton

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye view of Appleton.
Photograph

First Central Station

Date: 1882
Description: Building housing the very first central electric light station for distribution of incandescent lighting. The sign on the building reads: "Vulcan St."
Postcard

College Avenue Looking East from Oneida Street

Date: 1890
Description: View down College Avenue. Caption reads: "College Ave. looking East from Oneida St., Appleton, Wis."
Photograph

Freight Steamer "Cornucopia"

Date: 1872
Description: Elevated view from hill of the freight steamer "Cornucopia" loading hides at the Hammond Brothers warehouse, with Lawrence University buildings on the hill...
Photograph

Buildings on the Fox at Grand Chute

Date: 1870
Description: View from a hillside of either houses or factory buildings on the Fox River near a dam.
Photograph

Lawrence College Campus

Date: 1860
Description: Elevated illustration of the Lawrence College Campus with snow on the ground.
Photograph

Masonic Hall

Date: 1870
Description: Text reads: "Masonic Hall at the corner of College Avenue and Oneida Street; built in 1855 by Theodore Conkey, it burned in 1874. The Zuehlke Building was ...
Photograph

Methodist Church

Date: 1860
Description: Stereograph of a Methodist Church with a lawn, trees and a fence.
Photograph

Reeve Residence

Date: 1870
Description: View of the Reeve residence on the corner of Lawrence and Onieda Streets.
Drawing

Mills in Appleton, Wisconsin-15,000 Lbs. Daily

Date: 1870
Description: Sketch of the Fox River, a train, the mill, a warehouse, and a steamboat.
Photograph

Congregational Church

Date: 1870
Description: Congregational Church, also called the "old brown church" built in 1853 and burned in 1893. It was on the site of the present City Hall. The white house ne...
Photograph

Appleton Woolen Mills

Date: 1893
Description: View of the Appleton Woolen Mills from the south, circa 1895. The three-story building in the right front was constructed in 1893. The long, two-story bui...
Photograph

Methodist Church - Anaglyph

Date: 1860
Description: Stereograph of Methodist Church.
Map or Atlas

Bird's Eye View of Appleton Wisconsin

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye view map of Appleton, Wisconsin. Map reads: "NOTE.-Since the above cut was engraved, the Fox River Pulp & Paper Co.'s Mammoth Mills have been er...
Photograph

Mrs. Cadle

Date: 1889
Description: Mrs. Cadle seated in a bedroom, looking out a window. On the table in front of her is a cup and saucer.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Appleton, Wis.

Date: 1874
Description: Birds-eye view of Appleton Wisconsin. In the foreground are people fishing, strolling, and looking over the canal towards the Fox River. Streets and buildi...

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