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| 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: | 12 28 1980 |
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| Description: | Holocaust survivor Rabbi Mayer Relles at his home. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Multiple views of Oslo. Some pictured are the woolen mill and the dam. |
| Date: | 04 22 1953 |
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| Description: | View of a building under construction. A small tree is mounted on the gable. Caption reads: "Small tree placed atop frame of newly erected barn – an old cu... |
| Date: | 07 02 1960 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Manitowoc Shipbuilding floating drydock. Pilings and grass are in the foreground. On the far shoreline are buildings on a hil... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | The Manitowoc Breakwater Lighthouse entered service in 1918, was automated in 1971 and sold in 2009. The lighthouse is located on the end of a 400 foot bre... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of The Holy Family Convent and College, motherhouse of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity, and liberal arts for the education of Siste... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | The annex to the Windiate Hotel was originally built adjacent to the Hotel at the east, but the annex was moved a block south. It is now a saloon and roomi... |
| 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Arthur J. Packard, an early Manitowoc photographer known for views of the area, its people, harbor and marine vessels fro... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of two buildings which comprise Holy Family Hospital. |
| Date: | 05 10 1942 |
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| Description: | USS "Peto" (SS-265), a Gato-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the peto, a sharp-nosed tropical fish of the mackerel family. "... |
| Date: | 01 08 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from 8th Street Bridge over the Manitowoc River towards Lake Michigan. There is a lighthouse in the distance. Ice is floating on the water. A... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | The Windiate Hotel located at York and Sixth Streets. The hotel was erected in 1854 and opened the same time as the mercantile store across the street. The... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | View from a hill looking down on the plant which has several attached buildings, and a large chimney. To the right are railroad cars along the shoreline o... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Shirley Mecha, regular teacher at Meadow Brook School, helping migrant students use resources in the "library corner." |
| Date: | 02 28 1911 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Rose and Louis Meyer. Rose Swetlik (1892-1968) married Louis Meyer (1887-1949), a farmer, on February 28, 1911 in Kossuth Township (Mani... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Manitowoc taken from Northern Grain Company's Elevator B, facing southeast. South Main (Tenth) Street intersects with Franklin Street in... |
| 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. |
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