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: | 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: | 1951 |
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Description: | Sunday morning traffic on the corner of Washington and South 8th Streets in Manitowoc. |
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: | 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: | 1954 |
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Description: | View from across street of church entrance along road. |
Date: | 09 28 1918 |
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Description: | Soldiers parade with guns bearing American flags past Schuette Brothers clothing store at the corner of S. 8th and Jay Streets as spectators look on. There... |
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Description: | Elevated view across river of the S.S. Hyacinth of the U.S. Lighthouse Service being repaired at the Manitowoc Ship Building Company dock. The Fr... |
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