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Street Parade Rig

Date: 1870
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 ...
Photograph

Manitowoc, Wis.

Date: 1870
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...
Map or Atlas

Manitowoc, Wisconsin Bird's-eye Map

Date: 1883
Description: Bird's-eye map of Manitowoc.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Manitowoc, Wisconsin

Date: 1868
Description: Bird's-eye map of Manitowoc, with four insets. Manitowoc County.
Map or Atlas

View of the City of Two Rivers, Wis.

Date: 1879
Description: Bird's-eye map of Two Rivers.
Photograph

Manitowoc Railroad Yard

Date: 05 15 1897
Description: Elevated view of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway yards looking northwest. The elevator of the Northern Grain Company is in the middle distance.
Drawing

Lutheran Church

Date: 1850
Description: View of the first Norwegian Church built in Gjerpen, organized October 4, 1850. Gjerpen was one of the earliest Norwegian settlements in Wisconsin
Photograph

Kiel Hotel

Date: 1870
Description: View across water towards the Kiel Hotel.
Photograph

Harbor Scene

Date: 1887
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...
Photograph

Piening Home

Date: 1890
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...
Painting

Manitowoc From the North Side

Date: 1856
Description: View of Manitowoc from the north side.
Painting

View of St. Nazianz

Date: 1860
Description: Elevated view of the Roman Catholic community of St. Nazianz.
Photograph

Salvatorian Seminary

Date: 1880
Description: Salvatorian Seminary and Provincial house.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye Map Saint Nazianz

Date: 1860
Description: Ansicht Von St Nanianz, gregundet vom Jahr 1854 bis 1860. Sr. Hochw. Hern V. Oschald. n.p., n.d.
Map or Atlas

Manitowoc County Map

Date: 1878
Description: Outline map of Manitowoc County. Includes engraving of Wisconsin State Seal at bottom right.
Photograph

Grave Stone Storefront

Date: 1898
Description: The storefront of Nicholas Kettenhoffen's "Graves Stones & Markers." Three men are standing in front of the store with three large grave markers.
Photograph

Ice Skating on the Manitowoc River

Date: 1888
Description: Elevated view of a winter scene with a large group of people skating on the frozen Manitowoc River between the 8th and 10th Street bridges. A dog trots acr...
Photograph

Manitowoc Tanneries

Date: 1891
Description: Composite photograph showing the tanneries of L.M. Sherman and Henry Vits.
Photograph

Schuette Bros. Store

Date: 1891
Description: Exterior view of Schuette Brothers Store on S. Eighth Street. There are two horse-drawn vehicles in front of the store. There is a small mannequin in the s...
Photograph

Schuette Bros. Employees

Date: 1888
Description: Men who worked for Schuette Brothers Store assembled in front of the store. There are horses on both sides of the photograph, and the one on the right is p...

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