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Lee's Oshkosh Airplane

Date: 1932
Description: In order to undertake a trans-Atlantic flight to Norway, Clyde Allen Lee sought financial support from the local Oshkosh clothing company. The sign painted...
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Larson Brothers' Airport

Date: 1923
Description: The hangar and three airplanes (a Canuck and a J-1 Standard) at the airport operated by the Larson Brothers of Larsen, Wisconsin. The field was both the mo...
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Aerial View of EAA Convention

Date: 1988
Description: Aerial view of the 1988 EAA (Experimental Aviation Association) Convention and Fly-in at Wittman Field. On the ground is the Concorde and a B-1 Bomber.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Neenah

Date: 1870
Description: Bird's-eye map of Neenah.
Photograph

Menasha Factory View

Date: 09 29 1963
Description: The Menasha Woodenware plant and water tower on Doty Island from across the Fox River canal, with a small railroad dolly in the foreground.
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Menasha Factories View

Date: 09 29 1963
Description: View down railroad tracks towards the railroad bridge, with industrial plants on Doty Island.
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Donald Shepard Residence

Date: 06 16 1963
Description: Garden, entrance to swimming pool, and pavilion at the Donald Shepard residence, originally the Smith house, built by the son of the founder of the Menasha...
Map or Atlas

Part of a Military Road from Fort Crawford to Fort Howard

Date: 1833
Description: Map of part of the military road from Fort Crawford to Fort Howard. "Recorded on pages 668.669 Book B." Surveyed by Lieut. Center. Scale: 2 miles = 1 inch.
Photograph

Aerial View of Marathon Corporation Paper Mills

Date: 1955
Description: Aerial view of "the island" with the Marathon Corporation paper mills. The Fox River flowing out of Lake Winnebago separates the two cities, Neenah and Men...
Drawing

E.L. Mathewson Residence

Date: 
Description: A drawing from Harney's "History of Winnebago County" of E.L. Mathewson's home on Doty Island.
Map or Atlas

Survey of the Neenah (or Fox) River: No. 6 Winnebago Rapids

Date: 1840
Description: This map surveyed under the direction of Captain Thomas J. Cram is one in a series of seventeen that accompanied Cram's report on the Fox-Wisconsin river s...
Photograph

Doty Loggery

Date: 1910
Description: Doty's Loggery. Caption printed under image reads: "Governor James Duane Doty, in 1845, built this log house on Doty's Island (Menasha), and resided there ...
Photograph

Roberts' Resort

Date: 1965
Description: Roberts' Resort on Doty Island.
Photograph

John H. Otto

Date: 
Description: Captain John Henry Otto, (marked with X), along with another man from the 21st Wisconsin Infantry, posing on the top of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. John H...
Map or Atlas

Former Extent of Lake Winnebago with Southern Outlet

Date: 1875
Description: This map, from G.K. Warren's 1876 Report on the transportation route along the Wisconsin and Fox rivers in the State of Wisconsin between the Mississippi R...
Map or Atlas

Map of Winnebago County, Wisconsin

Date: 
Description: Map shows townships, roads and railroads, churches, schools, and selected buildings and property owners.
Map or Atlas

Plan Outagamie Palisade Village

Date: 1712
Description: This drawing, based on an 1897 survey, appeared in the 1899 Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, accompanying Publius V. Lawson's arti...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin, Winnebago Special Map

Date: 03 1911
Description: This 1911 topographic map shows Lake Winnebago and the surrounding area. The township and range grid, counties, towns, sections, cities, villages and post ...
Map or Atlas

Sectional Map of the County of Winnebago in the State of Wisconsin

Date: 1855
Description: This 1855 map of Winnebago County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, cities, villages, and post offices, roads, and lakes and streams.
Map or Atlas

Map of Winnebago County, Wisconsin

Date: 1897
Description: This 1897 map of Winnebago County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, landownership and acreages, rural re...

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