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| Community: | Menasha |
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| County: | Winnebago |
| Historic Name: | Wisconsin Tissue Mills |
| Reference Number: | 240028 |
| Date: | 10 03 1955 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin Central Railroad marker on the wall of the Hotel Menasha. The men at the dedication are (left to right) Edgar F. Zelle, President Wisconsin C... |
| Community: | Menasha |
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| County: | Winnebago |
| Historic Name: | Wisconsin Central/Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul RR Bridge |
| Reference Number: | 59511 |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Shows lot and block numbers. Includes manuscript annotations showing original Wisconsin Central Railway line in red which reads: "Original W.C. Line in Men... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Shows landowners, buildings, lot numbers, roads and railroads. Includes Menasha business directory. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Copy of an artist's rendition of an exterior view of the Elisha D. Smith Library. Pen and ink drawing is signed: "G.J. de Gelleke, 1899." Bottom of drawing... |
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| Description: | View of Menasha Park with a flower bed in the foreground. Caption reads: "Menasha Park." |
| Date: | 1712 |
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| 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... |
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| Description: | Right side profile view of the Wisconsin Central Railroad Locomotive No. 16, built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works in 1882, and scrapped in 1910. Spe... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a library with arches and columns. Caption reads: "Elisha D. Smith Library, Menasha, Wis." |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a high school, with flower beds in the front lawn. Caption reads: "High School, Menasha, Wis." |
| Photographs of Public Libraries in Wisconsin |
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| Learn about how the Wisconsin Free Library Commission helped to establish and improve free public libraries in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 07 21 1835 |
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| 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 ... |
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| Description: | View of a paper mill on the banks of the Fox River. Menasha in the distance. Caption reads: "Gilbert Paper Company, Menasha, Wis." |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Hotel Menasha. There is a car and driver at the curb. Caption reads: "Hotel Menasha, Menasha, Wis." |
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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... |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | This map shows streets, Lake Winnebago, Little Lake Butte Des Morts, and the Fox River. Also included is text on the Fox River Waterways and the history of... |
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