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Marathon Paper Corporation Factory

Date: 09 14 1963
Description: The Marathon Paper Corporation plant along the historic Fox River canal.
Photograph

Menasha Factory View

Date: 09 29 1963
Description: The Menasha Woodenware plant and water tower on Doty Island from across the Fox River canal, with a small railroad dolly in the foreground.
Photograph

Corner of Main Street and Tayco Street

Date: 1870
Description: The corner of unpaved Main Street and Tayco Street looking south towards Doty Island. The slanting timbers controlled the primitive draw bridge across the ...
Painting

Menasha Painting

Date: 1856
Description: ". . . The upper Grand Chute was the last of the 'improvements' paintings signed by Brookes and Stevenson. Yet there were two more vital links in the Fox R...
Map or Atlas

Winnebago Rapids, Winnebago County, Wiskonsin

Date: 1846
Description: This plat map, which features the very early spelling of Wisconsin as "Wiskonsin", was created sometime between 1846 and 1854 and shows a canal and dam on ...
Map or Atlas

Survey of the Neenah or Fox River

Date: 1840
Description: This map shows a line of proposed construction for defending the north side of the canal against inundation from the Wisconsin River and location of Fort W...
Photograph

Menasha Woodenware Company

Date: 1963
Description: A diagonal view down the canal of the Menasha Woodenware Company. Along the opposite side of the canal are boxcars on an elevated railroad track over the w...
Map or Atlas

Plan of the Town of the Island in the Outlet of Winabago Lake, Wisconsin

Date: 1857
Description: This map shows lot and block numbers, streets, railroad depots, locks, bridges, dams, canals, U.S. light house, college grounds, a steam boat landing, and ...
Photograph

George A. Whiting Paper Mill

Date: 1886
Description: View across water towards the George Whiting Paper Mill on the Lawson Canal.

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