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    Once done by horses, the steam loaders made loading logs onto railroad cars much easier. The horse-drawn piece of equipment shown on the right is a "big wheel." The big axle allowed it to be driven over a pile of logs. Chains were used to suspend the logs from the ...

    Loading or unloading logs on a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway car.

    Collapse of the Ninth Street Bridge across the Thunder Bay River during the flood of April 1923. Alpena County, Michigan.

    Collapse of the Ninth Street Bridge across the Thunder Bay River, Alpena, Michigan during the flood of April 1923.

    The St. Anne's Catholic Church burned on August 4, 1907. It took 13 years to rebuild to the same specifications is the French Romanesque style. Hillarie Gagnon supervised the construction. The steeples were new to the new building. The brick school was also added.

    Tragedy struck on Maundy Thursday, March 29, 1923 when the original St. Paul Lutheran Church was completely destroyed by fire.

    The Fletcher Office Building was originally a bath house built by the Alpena Magnetic Sulphur Springs Company in 1892. Mineral water was supplied by a 1,276 foot flowing well on the property. It was not a success and closed after just a few years. The building was purchased by the ...

    Arthur Linke with calf.

    Children sitting outside in summertime. Believed to be Leo and Margaret Linke.

    Engine House No. 1 of the Central Fire Station. This building replaced the original Engine House No. 1, which burned in 1910. It was located on the corner of Third Avenue and River Street.

    Unidentified woman and child in front of rosebushes at the side of a house. Believed to be of Linke Family in Alpena...Margaret Linke is probably the young girl.

    In 1923, the Thunder Bay River crested 18 inches over the 1922 record high. The Chisholm Street and Ninth Street bridges collapsed. Homes near Ninth Street and Washington Avenue were surrounded by water, and residents evacuated.

    Albert, Margaret, Dorothy, and Leo Linke in a buggy next to the Linke's greenhouses.

    Chief of Police Dougal McKenzie prior to the Lyon Brother incident in March 1926. The Lyon Brothers killed Special Investigator for the American Railway Express Company, Frank McGrath, in Norwalk, Ohio. McGrath was shot when he went to question the Lyon Brothers about a robbery at the Express Company office. ...

    The children of Arthur Linke and Ann A. Mensavitz, from oldest to youngest with approximate ages, are Albert (8), Dorothy (6), Leo (3 1/2), and Margaret (8 months). Margaret was the donor's (Dennis Knechtel) mother. She married Richard Knechtel on January 31, 1942.

    Sheriff Ed Hatch with the Lyon Brothers in custody on March 8, 1926 after the shooting of Chief of Police Dougal McKenzie, who was shot in the neck. The Lyon Brothers killed Special Investigator for the American Railway Express Company, Frank McGrath, in Norwalk, Ohio. McGrath was shot when he ...

    Believed to be Albert Linke at about age 16 around 1928.

    Linke Florist parade float with probably Arthur Linke as driver and daughter Dorothy. The float is in front of the VanNocker Photo Studio at 217 West Chisholm Street, Alpena, Michigan, c 1920.

    The third Second Avenue Bridge across the Thunder Bay River in Alpena, Michigan, looking southwest. Alpena Furniture is large building. References to dynamiting and the flood of April 1923.

    The Alpena Fire Department crew in the Winter of 1922 with its first fire truck.