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Horse-Drawn Cart Crosses Bridge

Date: 1889
Description: Elevated view of bridge crossing the wide Fox River, with the paper mill on the far side of the river, and a horse-drawn cart approaching the near side.
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Fox River From Catholic Church Hill

Date: 06 1898
Description: The Fox River seen from the hill behind the Catholic Church and looking toward the combined locks. In the distance is a paper mill.
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Whiting Paper Mill Ruins

Date: 08 24 1888
Description: The George A. Whiting Paper Mill after a fire on August 24, 1888. Sixteen men were killed by the explosion of a bleacher; the bleacher exploded as the nigh...
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Whiting Paper Mill Ruins

Date: 08 24 1888
Description: The George A. Whiting Paper Mill after a fire on August 24, 1888. Men and women are standing near the damaged railroad tracks. Sixteen men were killed by t...
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Whiting Paper Mills

Date: 1880
Description: The Whiting Paper Mills before it was ruined by fire. A group of men and women are posing in the foreground.
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George A. Whiting Paper Mill

Date: 1885
Description: The George A. Whiting Paper Mills with men posing on switcher engines in front of the buildings. The engines are, (left to right): Chicago and Northwestern...
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Whiting Paper Mill Ruins

Date: 08 24 1888
Description: The George A. Whiting Paper Mill after a fire on August 24, 1888. Men are standing near a damaged section of the mill. Sixteen men were killed by the explo...
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George A. Whiting Paper Mill

Date: 08 24 1888
Description: The George A. Whiting Paper Mill after a fire on August 24, 1888. A man is standing to the left of a large damaged metal section of the mill which is resti...
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George A. Whiting Paper Mill

Date: 08 24 1888
Description: Slightly elevated view of the George A. Whiting Paper Mill after a fire on August 24, 1888. Sixteen men were killed by the explosion of a bleacher; the ble...
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Industrial Section Along Fox River

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of the industrial section along the Fox River in Menasha. During this period the millers in Menasha were beginning to inves...
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Island City Mill

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of Island City Mill. Island City Mill was built in 1867 by Carl Stridde and A.H.F. Krueger, and also called Stridde & Krueger Mill. By 1891 it ...
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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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George A. Whiting Paper Mill

Date: 1885
Description: The George A. Whiting Paper Mill, with men posing on switching engines of the three railroads then operating in the city in the foreground. Left to right: ...

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