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| 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: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Schooner coming into Manitowoc harbor. |
| 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: | 09 06 1913 |
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| Description: | Postcard view across water towards reproductions of Christopher Columbus' ships, the Niña, Pinta, and the Santa Maria docked at Manito... |
| Date: | 10 1962 |
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| Description: | Lake steamer at dock, in fog. To the right is the boom of a crane. In front of the steamer is a tugboat. |
| Date: | 07 02 1960 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Manitowoc Shipbuilding floating drydock. Pilings and grass are in the foreground. On the far shoreline are buildings on a hil... |
| Date: | 01 08 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from 8th Street Bridge over the Manitowoc River towards Lake Michigan. There is a lighthouse in the distance. Ice is floating on the water. A... |
| Date: | 01 08 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over icy water towards ships in the shipyard on the left, and the cement company in the background. Cranes and industrial buildings are in th... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of commercial boats in Manitowoc Harbor. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A sand dune in Point Beach State Forest has engulfed several trees. Two dead trees are standing in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man is standing on a boulder on the beach looking out at Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man is standing and looking at the door of the boathouse on the beach near the Twin River (Rawley) Point Lighthouse. The boathouse has stone sides and a ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An unidentified woman is posing sitting on the sand and looking toward Lake Michigan. The newly built shelter house, with its large windowed bay and massiv... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the shipyards from across the river. Railroad tracks are in the foreground. Caption reads: "Shipyards at Manitowoc, Wis." |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a stretch of beach and a factory with a smokestack along Lake Michigan. Caption reads: "Shoreline at Manitowoc, Wis." |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | View across grass towards a tree on the shore of Lake Michigan which has accumulated ice from the waves and spray. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | The Manitowoc Breakwater Lighthouse entered service in 1918, was automated in 1971 and sold in 2009. The lighthouse is located on the end of a 400 foot bre... |
| Date: | 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Three lake steamers docked in the harbor. The closest steamer is the B.H. Taylor of the Bradley Transportation Company, transporting ores. Buildings are in... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | The Devils River cascades past old bridge abutments in the spring. The tree-lined shoreline and stone abutments are still covered with snow. |
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