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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. |
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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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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. |
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