Date: | 04 20 1888 |
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Description: | The launching of the screw passenger and freight vessel, "Petoskey," on April 20, 1888 at Burger and Burger Builders, Manitowoc, Wisconsin. |
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Description: | Pilot Louis Kakuk, manager of the Manitowoc Airport, with his Waco airplane. Kakuk's career followed a typical pattern for aviators, moving from the freewh... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye view of the city of Manitowoc with a population of 5,168 inhabitants as it appears in 1870, the year the village was granted a city charter by t... |
Date: | 05 05 1897 |
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Description: | Elevated view of Wisconsin Central freight cars in a rural storage yard near Manitowoc. |
Date: | 07 08 1941 |
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Description: | A boy rides his bike as if leading a fleet of cars, with the Lake Michigan ferry blowing smoke in the background. |
Date: | 05 15 1897 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway yards looking northwest. The elevator of the Northern Grain Company is in the middle distance. |
Date: | 12 23 1895 |
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Description: | Horse-drawn implement makes a cut at a crossing where the tunnel will be made for the Wisconsin Central Railway. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Schooner coming into Manitowoc harbor. |
Date: | 1887 |
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Description: | Some of the Old-Timers in the photograph: Steamers: Petosky (on stocks), Muskegon, Corona, A.D. Hayward, City of St. Joe, Lotus, J.F. Dayan, Grace Willia... |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | View across lawn toward the hospital. Caption reads: "Holy Family Hospital, Manitowoc, Wis." |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the library. Caption reads: "Public Library, Manitowoc, Wis." |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the library. Caption reads: "Public Library, Manitowoc, Wis." |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | View up street with a large building on the corner on the right, and church buildings further down the street. Caption reads: "View up South Eigth Street f... |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | The Manitowoc County Court House. Caption reads: "Manitowoc County Court House. In Process of Building 1906-7." |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | The home of Adolph Piening on Hancock Street (near Eight Street). The house was next door to the German Lutheran School and this site now is used by the sc... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | The Rahr Civic Center, formally the Vilas-Rahr house. |
Date: | 1975 |
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Description: | The Vilas-Rahr house, now the Rahr Civic Center. |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | The Manitowoc County Court House under construction. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Cyanotype of a river with a two-masted schooner near the shoreline. |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the shipyards with the Badger State cement plant in background. |
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