Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | College Avenue looking west from the corner of Morrison Street. The building on the left is the Adkins Building, at the right is the Johnston House. This w... |
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: | 1886 |
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Description: | First electric street railway service in Wisconsin. |
Date: | 1882 |
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Description: | Building housing the very first central electric light station for distribution of incandescent lighting. The sign on the building reads: "Vulcan St." |
Date: | 1882 |
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Description: | Cutaway view of the building that housed the first electrical station created to distribute incandescent light electricity. |
Date: | 1882 |
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Description: | A man shows off an incandescent lamp switchboard with bamboo filiament, lamp receptacle with wooden base, current and pressure indicators and controlling d... |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | The first electric street railway in Wisconsin. |
Date: | 1872 |
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Description: | Elevated view from hill of the freight steamer "Cornucopia" loading hides at the Hammond Brothers warehouse, with Lawrence University buildings on the hill... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Overlook of the river, and a building near the dam from a steep hillside. |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | View from a hillside of either houses or factory buildings on the Fox River near a dam. |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Elevated illustration of the Lawrence College Campus with snow on the ground. |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Text reads: "Masonic Hall at the corner of College Avenue and Oneida Street; built in 1855 by Theodore Conkey, it burned in 1874. The Zuehlke Building was ... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Stereograph of a Methodist Church with a lawn, trees and a fence. |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | View of the Reeve residence on the corner of Lawrence and Onieda Streets. |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | This is the H.W. Tenney house built by Charles Patten in the late 1870's, bought by Mr. Tenney in the spring of 1881. The people are, (left to right): Eva ... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Congregational Church, also called the "old brown church" built in 1853 and burned in 1893. It was on the site of the present City Hall. The white house ne... |
Date: | 1887 |
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Description: | Interior view of the First Public Library. It was located over Pondee Grocery Store on College Avenue. |
Date: | 1893 |
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Description: | View of the Appleton Woolen Mills from the south, circa 1895. The three-story building in the right front was constructed in 1893. The long, two-story bui... |
Date: | 1892 |
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Description: | Adult men, dressed in uniforms, posing in front of a painted backdrop with sporting equipment indoors at the Appleton Turners Festival. Their teacher stand... |
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