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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: | 02 12 1984 |
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| Description: | A man shows his cow in front of Penneys during an auction held at the Mid-Cities Mall. |
| 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. |
| 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: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Manitowoc, with four insets. Manitowoc County. |
| 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: | 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Rahr Civic Center where the museum of the Manitowoc Historical Society is housed. |
| 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: | 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. |
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