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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Street parade rig, apparently to agitate against delays in construction of a railroad to connect Manitowoc to the west. In the background is a store owned ... |
| 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. |
| 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: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Manitowoc. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Manitowoc, with four insets. Manitowoc County. |
| Date: | 05 05 1897 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Wisconsin Central freight cars in a rural storage yard near Manitowoc. |
| 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: | 12 11 1895 |
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| Description: | View of the construction area of the Wisconsin Central Railway, looking southeast at Shipyard Point with workers and a team of horses. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Schooner coming into Manitowoc harbor. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The schooner "S.M. Stephenson" was built in Manitowoc in 1880, weighing 511 gross tons. Its owner was A. Bigelow. |
| 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: | 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: | 1856 |
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| Description: | View of Manitowoc from the north side. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a winter scene with a large group of people skating on the frozen Manitowoc River between the 8th and 10th Street bridges. A dog trots acr... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Composite photograph showing the tanneries of L.M. Sherman and Henry Vits. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Group of schoolchildren posed sitting and standing on a fallen tree trunk. They are dressed in their finest clothes for a school photograph. One of the boy... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Women bringing lunch to the men working in the field. The men are harvesting grain using a horse-drawn grain binder. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Schuette Brothers Store on S. Eighth Street. There are two horse-drawn vehicles in front of the store. There is a small mannequin in the s... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Men who worked for Schuette Brothers Store assembled in front of the store. There are horses on both sides of the photograph, and the one on the right is p... |
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