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Kimberly-Clark Factory

Date: 06 16 1963
Description: View across parking lot towards the Kimberly-Clark Paper Company plant.
Photograph

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company Plant

Date: 10 02 1961
Description: View of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company plant. The sky is cloudy and smoke obscures some of the stacks. Railroad cars can be are on the righ...
Photograph

House near Portage Canal

Date: 09 1962
Description: View across yard of a house beside the Portage Canal. It was unoccupied at the time of this photograph.
Photograph

Fox River Lock Tender

Date: 08 05 1962
Description: Mr. Ortel, a United States Government lock-keeper at Appleton lock number one on the Fox River canal. Mr. Ortel is opening the sluice gates to allow water ...
Photograph

Paper Mill

Date: 08 05 1962
Description: Exterior view of Riverside Paper Corporation mill. On the left is a road along a river, and on the right are railroad tracks along the mill. A sign in the ...
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Abandoned Farmhouse

Date: 09 24 1960
Description: View of part of an abandoned, weathered farmhouse which is surrounded by overgrown weeds.
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Foundry

Date: 05 05 1962
Description: An industrial scene of a foundry with piles of material in a side yard.
Photograph

Woolen Mill

Date: 09 19 1961
Description: View of a woolen mill, as seen from across a river and dam.
Photograph

Old Chimney

Date: 06 16 1962
Description: An old chimney near the town fishing pond. In the foreground, trees grow in the pond.
Photograph

Cabin in the Woods

Date: 08 22 1964
Description: A close view of Jack Myers' log cabin on Washington Island. The cabin is surrounded by thick woods.
Photograph

Abandoned Farmhouse

Date: 10 27 1963
Description: Several trees surround an abandoned farmhouse on a hill.
Photograph

Downtown Rooftops

Date: 08 28 1966
Description: Elevated view of several downtown buildings' rooftops and top floors.
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 144

Date: 
Description: A house laced straight into the wiry sore of righteousness,
squared off and lonely,
tingling at the sound of ice,
the libertine who drowned.
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...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 102

Date: 
Description: He was taught restraint and patriotic fiction,
letting automation by
to wipe the chimneys clean of issues
and make horizons in the sky

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