This view of the Menasha Wooden Ware stave yards dates itself by the downtown details on the opposite shore. In the top center is the National Hotel and to the right is the Elisha D. Smith library.
The National, with its distinctive square shape and rooftop cupola, burned in 1901 and the Hotel Menasha was not built on the site until four years later. With the library having been built in 1898, that leaves a three year window for dating this photograph...1898-1901.
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