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Whiting Paper Mill Ruins

Date: 08 24 1888
Description: The George A. Whiting Paper Mill after a fire on August 24, 1888. Men and women are standing near the damaged railroad tracks. Sixteen men were killed by t...
Photograph

George A. Whiting Paper Mill

Date: 1885
Description: The George A. Whiting Paper Mills with men posing on switcher engines in front of the buildings. The engines are, (left to right): Chicago and Northwestern...
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Elisha D. Smith Library

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Description: Exterior view from road of the Elisha D. Smith Library. The library opened in 1898 funded with a gift of $20,000 from E.D. Smith. Over the main entrance, a...
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Locomotive Engine No. 901

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Description: Left side view of Chicago,Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway locomotive engine no. 901, class J2, built by Borrks Locomotive Works in 1887. Engineer Jake Rhyner ...
Painting

Menasha Painting

Date: 1856
Description: ". . . The upper Grand Chute was the last of the 'improvements' paintings signed by Brookes and Stevenson. Yet there were two more vital links in the Fox R...
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Children Around Christmas Tree

Date: 1913
Description: Group portrait of the Ponkratz girls sitting around the Christmas tree. Two girls are sitting on the left, with the older girl holding a doll, and the youn...
Postcard

Dam & Island Paper Mill

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Description: View of a dam on the Fox River and a paper mill on the far bank. Two men are in boat in the foreground. Caption reads: "Dam & Island Paper Mill, Menasha, W...
Postcard

Brighton Beach

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Description: View along shoreline of a bathing beach with many people on and near a pier. There are rowboats in the water on the right. Caption reads: "Brighton Beach, ...

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