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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 ... |
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| Description: | Manitowoc and Two Rivers Railway streetcar full of passengers. |
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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: | 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: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Self-unloader, the Detroit Edison, Hull 418, is under construction and surrounded by scaffolding at Manitowoc Shipbuilding Corporation. |
| 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Rahr Civic Center where the museum of the Manitowoc Historical Society is housed. |
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| Description: | A series of four portraits of the Salomon brothers. From left to right are Brigadeer General Charles E. Salomon, Governor Edward Salomon, Major General Fre... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of numerous Manitowoc factories/industries. |
| 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: | 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: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the shipyards with the Badger State cement plant in background. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | St. James Episcopal Church in Manitowoc. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The two-story parsonage of St. Paul's Methodist Church on 608 Park Street. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | The two-story parsonage of St. Paul's Methodist Church on 608 Park Street. |
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| Description: | Jacques Vieau, agent for the Northwest Fur Company of Montreal, built a trading post here in 1796, on what is now called Jambo Creek after the nickname the... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Detour sign posted by the Wisconsin Highway Commission, the predecessor of the Department of Transportation, in Manitowoc showing a confusing detour route ... |
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