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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. |
| 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 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: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of town, showing a major industrial area. |
| 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: | 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: | 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. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | St. James Episcopal Church in Manitowoc. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A mercantile building across Sixth Street from the Windiate Hotel, built in 1854. Automobiles are parked in the foreground. |
| 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: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Sunday morning traffic on the corner of Washington and South 8th Streets in Manitowoc. |
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