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| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | View across water of a Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad locomotive (No #33) pulling a pay car across a trestle over the Fox River. Several large... |
| Date: | 09 14 1911 |
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| Description: | Calbraith Perry Rodgers in a Wright Model B at Appleton Baseball Park. Cal Rodgers, a member of the famous Perry family, learned to fly at the Wright Flyin... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | View looking down at people working on John Street Bridge during the razing. There is a crane on the bridge. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Reliance Motor Truck Company in Appleton, in which the absence of assembly line construction is notable. |
| Date: | 08 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Joseph R. McCarthy opens congratulatory telegrams after his primary election victory over Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr., a victory which ended the La ... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Interior office view showing Frank James Harwood, General Manager of Appleton Woolen Mills. Harwood became general manager in 1882 and served as the compa... |
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| Description: | Bottling plant employees of the George Walter Brewery. The Walter Brewery closed in 1972. |
| Date: | 08 05 1962 |
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| Description: | Mr. Ortel, a United States Government lock-keeper at Appleton lock number one on the Fox River canal. Mr. Ortel is opening the sluice gates to allow water ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Ben Bergor, a Madison magician, receiving the Houdini Award from the widow of Harry Houdini. Behind him is the trunk from which Bergor had escaped, and fou... |
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| Description: | View down street of movers relocating a house. A two-story wood house, with front porch still attached, sits on the flatbed of a truck as it moves down Wes... |
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| Description: | Six men of the Spiegel family stand outdoors around a long wooden table butchering chickens. The table is covered with large steel pots and pieces of meat.... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Prospective buyers examine artwork at an art fair at City Park. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Louie Suttner inspecting the wheat crop at his farm, the current site of the Fox River Mall. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a pamphlet advertising Eagle farm tractors. Features an illustration of an eagle and a photograph of a man using a tractor in a field. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Eagle steel frame silo filler featuring a color illustration of two farmers using the filler. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a booklet advertising Eagle farm tractors featuring a color illustration of a man using a tractor to plow a field in front of a farmhouse. |
| Date: | 08 1949 |
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| Description: | Robert Palzer, owner of the farm, is using a Model 5-C John Deere portable farm elevator to convey hybrid corn to the kernel remover in the building. The w... |
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