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City Square

Date: 1870
Description: Elevated view of City Square, where the Bank of Menasha is seen on the corner and Little Lake Butte des Mortes is in the distance.
Drawing

Elisha D. Smith Library

Date: 1899
Description: The Elisha D. Smith Library built by Van Ryn and De Gelleke.
Photograph

Main Street and the Fox River

Date: 1870
Description: Elevated view of Main Street looking east toward the Fox River and the boat landing. Lake Winnebago is in the distance.
Photograph

Corner of Main Street and Tayco Street

Date: 1870
Description: The corner of unpaved Main Street and Tayco Street looking south towards Doty Island. The slanting timbers controlled the primitive draw bridge across the ...
Photograph

National Hotel

Date: 1870
Description: The National Hotel on town square off of Main Street. A group of people and horse-drawn vehicles are in front of the hotel.
Photograph

Whiting Paper Mills

Date: 1880
Description: The Whiting Paper Mills before it was ruined by fire. A group of men and women are posing in the foreground.
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...
Photograph

George A. Whiting Paper Mill

Date: 08 24 1888
Description: The George A. Whiting Paper Mill after a fire on August 24, 1888. A man is standing to the left of a large damaged metal section of the mill which is resti...
Photograph

George A. Whiting Paper Mill

Date: 08 24 1888
Description: Slightly elevated view of the George A. Whiting Paper Mill after a fire on August 24, 1888. Sixteen men were killed by the explosion of a bleacher; the ble...
Map or Atlas

Map of Menasha, Wisconsin

Date: 1872
Description: Shows landowners, buildings, lot numbers, roads and railroads. Includes Menasha business directory.
Map or Atlas

Plat of Township No. 20 North of Range No. 17 East of the 4th Meridian : Menasha, Wisconsin

Date: 07 21 1835
Description: This map is ink and watercolor on tracing paper and shows township lines surveyed by Mullett and Brink, subdivision lines surveyed by A.G. Ellis, and part ...
Photograph

George A. Whiting Paper Mill

Date: 1886
Description: View across water towards the George Whiting Paper Mill on the Lawson Canal.

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