A history professor at Lawrence University conducted a seminar on local history at the Appleton Library in the autumn of 1981. This is an audio recording of the group's discussions. In this audiotape interview conducted for the Now and Then radio series, Appleton resident Mabel Okee Traiser recounts incidents from her life. The index is now online and the newspaper is available on microfilm. The library owns bound copies of Outagamie County plat maps, located in the 912 area of the Wisconsin Collection, which provide information on land ownership.
Holdings are from various dates.
Many old maps of the city of Appleton and the Fox River Valley are in the map cases located in the Wisconsin Collection. A unique source of local history is provided by the yearbooks published by Appleton high schools, The library owns a nearly complete collection for the public high schools and a few from the parochial schools. The books are located in the Wisconsin Collection 371.8 App, with the most recent books kept in storage. In the 977.5 section of the Wisconsin Collection are many books devoted to the general history of Wisconsin. Consult the index of each book for references to Appleton.