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| 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. |
| 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 09 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the sideways launching of Hull 418, the Detroit Edison at Manitowoc Shipbuilding, Inc. A group of people are gathered at the wharf ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of commercial boats in Manitowoc Harbor. |
| 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: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Manitowoc and Lake Michigan. Caption reads: "Bay and Harbor Entrance, Manitowoc, Wis." |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view across water towards the Coast Guard Station on Lake Michigan. Cutters are moored next to a sea wall. Caption reads: "Coast Guar... |
| 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: | Four views of the S.S. Badger: the upper passenger deck, the captain at the helm, the car hold, and the ship itself. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | View of a Lake Michigan beach. Three girls are sitting on the sand in the foreground. In the background people are in the water. A steamer is on the horizo... |
| 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: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of the Manitowoc Harbor facing east from Northern Grain Company's Elevator B. In the foreground, Mathews & Keith's pile driver scow is secu... |
| 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... |
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