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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over the Manitowoc River where it meets Lake Michigan. Downtown Manitowoc is on both sides, and people are on bridges crossing over the river... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Birds-eye view of central Manitowoc. The plant of the William Rahr Sons' Company has an arrow pointing to it. The Manitowoc County Courthouse on the right ... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Cereal Products Co. plant, established 1847. Railroad tracks are along the shoreline in the foreground. Caption reads: "Cereal Product... |
| 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." |
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| Description: | View across road toward the Knitting Mills building. There is a Model T parked in front. Caption reads: "Marinette Knitting Mills, Marinette, Wis." |
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| Description: | View across water towards a mill on the waterfront. Caption reads: "Park Mills, Marinette, Wis." |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a factory near Marshfield. Railroad tracks are on the right. Caption reads: "Berg Equipment Co. Plant, Marshfield, Wisonsin." |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the canning factory. Two trucks are parked in front near a pump. Caption reads: "Canning Factory, Medford, Wis." |
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| Description: | View of factories along the Fox River. The building on the left has a sign painted on it that reads: "Valley Knitting Co." Caption reads: "Manufacturing Di... |
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| Description: | View of a sugar factory. Caption reads: "Menominee River Sugar Co., Menomonee Falls, Wis." |
| Date: | 10 05 1908 |
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| Description: | Text reads: "Greetings from Rice Lake, Wis." A collage of 6 postcards with views of "Main Street," "Canning Factory," "Roller Mills," "Public Library," "Tr... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Ripon Knitting Works, Ripon, Wis." A large, brick, three-story building with windows to the basement in the foundation. It has an arc... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Spellman Granite Works, Sauk City, Wisconsin" and "Manufacturing Plant." Two images, one above the other, an exterior and interior vi... |
| Date: | 02 1910 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "The Bucyrus Co., South Milwaukee, Wis." A factory and headquarters with railroad tracks on the left. From Wikipedia "Bucyrus-Erie was... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on the front reads: "The Canning Factory, Seymour, Wis." Men and women workers are sitting on very large piles of cabbages at a canning factory. More ... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Text on the front reads: "Wolf River Paper & Fiber Co., Shawano, Wis." Industrial buildings with a millpond in the foreground. The mill was founded in 1894... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Schreiers Brewery, Sheboygan, Wis." The brewery was founded in 1856 by Konrad Schreier. A fire completely destroyed the original brew... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Greetings from the City of the Three 'C', Chairs. Cheese. Children. Sheboygan, Wis." The postcard features a drawing of 3 large "C"s,... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Paper Mill Road, Showing Plover Paper Mill, Stevens Point, Wis." View of an unpaved road leading to a paper mill on the Wisconsin Riv... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "United States Rubber Company, Stoughton, Wis." A brick and metal factory building with many windows. Still manufacturing today, Uniro... |
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