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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: | 1886 |
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| Description: | First electric street railway service in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Appleton. |
| 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: | 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: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the First Public Library. It was located over Pondee Grocery Store on College Avenue. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Posed group portrait of men and women members of the “Class of '86” at Lawrence College. The 8 men have silk top hats and the 4 women have umbrellas, for a... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Cadle seated in a bedroom, looking out a window. On the table in front of her is a cup and saucer. |
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