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| 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: | 11 06 1946 |
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| Description: | Joseph R. McCarthy in the home of friends Urban and Margery Van Susteren of Little Chute, on the morning after his election to the U.S. Senate. Van Sustere... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Farmers delivering their milk in wagons to a dairy plant on Black Creek Road near Appleton. The advent of automobiles would vastly improve farmers ability... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Group of farmers observe and participate in a farm auction. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View from a distance of a farm in a valley owned by Alex(ander?) Smith. There is a wooden fence in the foreground surrounding the farm. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Four men dressed in fire fighting gear driving a fire truck on State Highway 47 near Appleton. The Wisconsin Highway Commission which published this photo... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | First electric street railway service in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Kaukauna Drugstore, which was owned by Charles Morthis. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of several downtown businesses, including a drugstore advertising "Patent Medicines and Cigars". |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Atlas Mill. The paper making mill on the Fox River was built in 1878 and proved that paper could be made efficiently from gro... |
| 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: | 1974 |
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| Description: | "Hearthstone," a house built in 1880-1882 by paper mill owner Henry J. Rogers, was the first residence electrified from a centrally located hydroelectric p... |
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| Description: | Original brass chandelier with art glass shades hangs in "Hearthstone," the home built by paper mill owner, Henry J. Rogers. The residence was the first d... |
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| Description: | Original steam radiator, one of many installed throughout "Hearthstone," the home built by paper mill owner, Henry J. Rogers. The residence was the first ... |
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| Description: | Original light switch on the wall at "Hearthstone," the home built by paper mill owner, Henry J. Rogers. The residence was the first dwelling electrified ... |
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| Description: | Plaque describing "Hearthstone," the home built by paper mill owner, Henry J. Rogers. The residence was the first dwelling electrified from a centrally loc... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the city and the river. |
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