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Paine Lumber Company at Oshkosh, Wis.

Date: 06 1890
Description: This map shows building use, railroads, tramways, lumber yards, roads, watchman’s stations, and steam pipes. Also included is text about buildings, Clapp a...
Map or Atlas

City of Oshkosh and Vicinity

Date: 1930
Description: This map shows city wards, streets, railroads, parks, Lake Butte Des Morts, Lake Winnebago, advertisements for Dixie Oils Gasoline, a list of Cook & Brown ...
Drawing

Chief Oshkosh

Date: 1850
Description: Waist-up pen and ink drawing of Chief Oshkosh. He is wearing a top hat wrapped with a ribbon. He wears a suitcoat, bowtie, beaded neckpouch and a blanket w...
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of Oshkosh, Winnebago Co., State of Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: This map shows city wards, streets, block and lot numbers, cemeteries, buildings, landownership, forests, railroads, a race course, quarries, and orchards....
Map or Atlas

Map of Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Date: 1877
Description: This map shows the Fox River, Lake Winnebago, city wards, lot and block numbers, landownership, selected buildings, railroads, and roads. There are three i...
Photograph

Storm on Lake Winnebago

Date: 08 1916
Description: Class A sailboats race in the Inland Lake Yachting Association Regatta on Lake Winnebago just before a storm breaks. There are threatening clouds overhead.
Photograph

After the Storm

Date: 08 1916
Description: A description of this photograph written by Ernst Schmidt reads: "The 'Senta' with the anchor out shortly after the storm had hit. I am on the after deck —...
Photograph

After the Storm

Date: 08 1916
Description: Bystanders watch as men bail out a sailboat and others assess the damage to their craft after a storm hit during the Inland Lake Yachting Association Regat...
Photograph

Sailboats

Date: 08 18 1931
Description: View across water towards sailboats with their crews reflected in the still waters of Lake Winnebago, before the start of a race at the Inland Lake Yachtin...
Map or Atlas

Map of the 5th and 12th Ward House Numbers [in Oshkosh, Wisconsin]

Date: 1908
Description: This blueprint map is showing subdivisions and additions. Streets, rivers, and land plots are labeled.
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of Oshkosh

Date: 1855
Description: This map shows the Fox River, Lake Winnebago, streets, and plats. Below the title reads: "N. F.&Co. will make surveys of lands and plat the same in the bes...
Map or Atlas

Plat of Dane : Drawn as Meandered by Me this March 12th A.D. 1839

Date: 1900
Description: Map showing a paper city located on the shore of Green Bay and south shore of the Fox River. The site is now part of Oshkosh.
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: Map showing city wards, streets, block and lot numbers, additions, selected buildings, Lake Winnebago, the Fox River, and railroads as of 1895. The lower m...
Map or Atlas

Plat of Grounds, State Normal School, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Date: 1926
Description: This blueprint map is oriented with north to the upper left. The map shows buildings with note of those "to be torn down," sidewalks, proposed power plant,...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Knaggs Ferry Historic Marker

Date: 06 05 1955
Description: Officials gathered to dedicate the Knaggs Ferry historical marker in Oshkosh. The officials included, from left to right, Edward Hamilton, vice-president o...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Knaggs Ferry Historic Marker

Date: 06 05 1955
Description: Fourth, fifth, and sixth generations of the Knaggs family gathered by the Knaggs Ferry historical marker to honor their family member. Mrs. Walter Dugolens...
Photograph

Elizabeth Farnsworth Mears

Date: 1860
Description: A photographic copy of an early, full-length studio portrait of Elizabeth Farnsworth Mears (1830-1907) standing in front of a painted backdrop with column ...
Photograph

John Hall Mears

Date: 
Description: Waist-up carte-de-visite studio portrait of John Hall Mears.
Photograph

John and Elizabeth Mears Family Home

Date: 1910
Description: View from street of a two-story wood frame house, with open front porch shaded by trees. There is a plank sidewalk in front and a curved plank walk leading...
Photograph

Salem Church

Date: 1947
Description: Exterior view of Salem Church.

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