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Wyocena Farmers' Cooperative

Date: 09 04 1960
Description: The Wyocena Farmers' Cooperative, a feed mill with railroad tracks along the side of the building.
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Farmers' Cooperative

Date: 09 04 1960
Description: Quonset hut-style Wyocena Farmer's Cooperative.
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Marathon Paper Corporation Factory

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

Date: 09 29 1963
Description: View down railroad tracks towards the railroad bridge, with industrial plants on Doty Island.
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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...
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Portage Canal

Date: 1962
Description: The Portage Canal between the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers, from the highway 51 crossing near the center of the city.
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Canal between Two Factories

Date: 09 30 1963
Description: View of a canal running between the Neenah Paper Company and the J.W. Hewitt Machine Company.
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Woolen Mill

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

Date: 09 17 1961
Description: View of the Gresham Cooperative Feed Mill. A residential house is visible in the background.
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Fair Ground Buildings Reflected in Water

Date: 03 24 1962
Description: Fair ground buildings, closed and boarded up for the winter.
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Parked Tractor

Date: 05 20 1962
Description: A parked tractor on a street near industrial buildings.
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Industrial Buildings

Date: 09 29 1963
Description: View across water of a railroad bridge along the side of a strip of industrial buildings. Railroad cars are stopped in front of the buildings.
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Sculptured Advertising Company

Date: 05 31 1965
Description: Sculptured Advertising Company (F.A.S.T. Corporation of Sparta is an outgrowth of Sculptured Advertising) with unfinished prop displays, perhaps made of fi...
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Mississippi River Bluffs

Date: 07 05 1965
Description: View from the Mississippi River toward the bluffs. A residential home, old bank building, truck and railroad building are on a hill among trees below the b...
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John Deere Farm Machinery Manufacturing Plant

Date: 05 05 1962
Description: The John Deere farm machinery manufacturing plant. "Bascule" passage between buildings which is raised to let freight cars pass on railroad tracks.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 207-215

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Description: The log who was made King of Logs is here entombed
eight round, ten long

For his design, the strengthened forest
capriciously outgrew them all...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 242-251

Date: 
Description: The world is flat; we get around
this stretched credulity
by going straight as an arrow
and meeting ourselves in a space of time
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 281-288

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Description: De Pere, Wis.

The sound has never left the harp
The song will never leave the well
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 304-311

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Description: Always looking at the vacancy in that great sea of people

All there ever was was a greeting card
and that one a mirage
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 319-324

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Description: There used to be a quiet. It wasn't deafness, it was roses

But they don't make it any more
They think it was a toy

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