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Oshkosh Harbor

Date: 1855
Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of the Oshkosh harbor, showing the bridge over the Fox River and several moored sailing vessels.
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 ...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Cedar Street Bridge

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph view of Cedar Street Bridge(?) with a rocky shoreline on the left. The construction of this bridge is the same as the Cedar Street bridge, but ...
Photograph

Lumbering on Fox River

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of the lumbering industry on the Fox River. Lake Winnebago is in the background.
Photograph

Fox River

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of a view along the Fox River. A pier with pilings is along the right, with industrial buildings.
Photograph

View of Town

Date: 1880
Description: Illustration of an elevated view over rooftops looking towards Oshkosh. There are chimneys along the horizon with smoke rising into the sky. A river is alo...
Photograph

Oshkosh from River

Date: 1890
Description: Elevated view of Oshkosh from across a river.
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of the Main Street bridge, looking toward a section of the city known locally as Brooklyn.
Print

Fox River and Oshkosh

Date: 1856
Description: View along bridge of paddle boats and ships in the harbor, pedestrians, and the town in the background on the other side of the river.
Print

Ferry Street

Date: 1856
Description: View from bridge on river. Storefronts and homes line the road that stretches to the horizon.
Map or Atlas

Map of Menasha, Wisconsin

Date: 1872
Description: Shows landowners, buildings, lot numbers, roads and railroads. Includes Menasha business directory.
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

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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