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Delivering Milk by Wagon

Date: 1915
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...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Appleton

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye view of Appleton.
Photograph

Zeeland Mills

Date: 1865
Description: Zeeland Mills, built in 1862 by John Verstegen. The flour mill was 36' x 50', four stories and had "two runs of stone." It was still operating in 1911.
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Walter Brewery Bottling Plant

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Description: Bottling plant employees of the George Walter Brewery. The Walter Brewery closed in 1972.
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Mrs. Harvey Blue Pouring Maple Syrup Candies

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Description: Mrs. Harvey Blue pouring maple sugar candies. Mrs. Blue, in a flowered apron, is holding a white enameled pot in one hand, and a ladle of maple sugar confe...
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Spiegel Family Butchering Chickens

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Description: Six men of the Spiegel family stand outdoors around a long wooden table butchering chickens. The table is covered with large steel pots and pieces of meat....
Print

Star Brewery Billhead

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Description: Billhead of Star Brewery of Appleton, Wisconsin, with an elevated three-quarter view of the brewery and surrounding streets and buildings. On the right sid...
Print

Geo Walter Brewing Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the George Walter Brewing Company of Appleton, Wisconsin, brewers of Adler Bräu and export beers. On the left is a full-color image of a bott...
Print

Kaukauna Klub, Label

Date: 02 24 1934
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration by the South Kaukauna Dairy Company. Cheese Food product which is a mixture of aged ch...
Photograph

Olsen's Mill (Wayne Feeds)

Date: 1960
Description: Exterior of Olsen's Mill (Wayne Feeds) on Hwy 49, just north of Hwy 21.
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Apple Cider Making

Date: 1960
Description: Louis Suttner and another man making apple cider.
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Apple Cider Making

Date: 1960
Description: Louis Suttner and another man make apple cider outdoors.
Map or Atlas

Showing the Location of Cities, Villages, Churches, Schools, Town Halls, Cemeteries, Creameries, Railroads, Rivers, Streams, and other Points of Interest [in Outagamie County, Wisconsin]

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Description: This 1907 map of Outagamie County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, railroads, wagon roads, churches, sc...
Map or Atlas

Outagamie County, Wisconsin

Date: 1922
Description: This map of Outagamie County, Wisconsin, from the first half of the 20th century, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, ...
Postcard

Grist & Pulp Mill

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Description: Zeeland Mills on the Fox River. Little Chute is across the river on the hill. A bridge and a dam are in the river, with industrial buildings on the far sho...
Postcard

The Canning Factory

Date: 1907
Description: Text on the front reads: "The Canning Factory, Seymour, Wis." Men and women workers are sitting on very large piles of cabbages at a canning factory. More ...
Postcard

Parade Car

Date: 1907
Description: An automobile decorated for an early 4th of July parade traveling down the street. The passengers are dressed festively. Signs for "Castersen & Co. General...
Photograph

George Walter Brewing Company

Date: 1896
Description: View down street towards the George Walter Brewing Company. A large group of people are posing on the street with horse-drawn carriages and horse-drawn wag...

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