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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. Sixteen men were killed by the explosion of a bleacher; the bleacher exploded as the nigh...
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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...
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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.
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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

Whiting Paper Mill Ruins

Date: 08 24 1888
Description: The George A. Whiting Paper Mill after a fire on August 24, 1888. Men are standing near a damaged section of the mill. Sixteen men were killed by the explo...
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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

Sanborn Map of City of Menasha

Date: 1884
Description: Sanborn-Perris fire insurance map for city of Menasha.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of City of Menasha

Date: 1884
Description: Sanborn-Perris fire insurance map for city of Menasha.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of City of Menasha

Date: 1887
Description: Sanborn-Perris fire insurance maps for city of Menasha.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of City of Menasha

Date: 1887
Description: Sanborn-Perris fire insurance maps for city of Menasha.
Map or Atlas

Northern Outlet Menasha Meander Lines

Date: 1881
Description: Ink, watercolor, and pencil on paper. Top of the map reads: "NORTHERN OUTLET MENASHA MEANDER LINES Scale 132ft 1 INCH Var S.E. Survey Completed Spet. 23 18...
Map or Atlas

Dendo Island

Date: 1881
Description: This map is pen and ink on paper and shows part of the city of Menasha, local streets, Dendo Island, part of Lake Winnebago, and part of Little Lake Butte ...
Map or Atlas

Survey for E.D. Smith Showing Low Water Line in Lots 1 & 2 and on North Side of Channel Opposite Sec. 22 in Town 20 Range 17 n., 4th Meridian

Date: 12 1886
Description: This map is ink and pen on tracing cloth and shows land ownership by name, canals, local streets, section lines, and original low water lines in blue. The ...
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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