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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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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Rand & Roemer Hardware Co.

Date: 1891
Description: Exterior view from street of Rand & Roemer Hardware Co. and Henry Hinrich's Drug Store. Also visible are Rand & Roemer Ship Chandlery (nautical supply), Ra...
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Atlantic Saloon

Date: 1898
Description: Two older men and one younger man standing on a boardwalk in front of the Atlantic Saloon owned by C.J. Vogel. A hanging sign to the right advertises for S...
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Oxmobile "Pioneer"

Date: 1875
Description: Team of oxen pulling a wagon in front of Schuette Brothers store grain warehouse on a muddy Jay Street. The man standing with the oxen is likely Fred Wilke...
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Ship Channel

Date: 1898
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...

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