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    Antiques owned by Arthur Linke, including clocks, glassware, tools, record players, lamps, and an instrument player from the North Tonawanda Musical Instrument Works. Arthur (Art) Linke, 1890-1963, was long identified with Linke's Flower Ship & Greenhouses. He was a great collector of Alpena memorabilia and much of his massive collection ...

    Alpena Fire Department wagon and horse teams within department building.

    Dr. Otto Bertram was born in Detroit on December 3, 1870. He married Carrie Yates on October 3, 1899 in Alpena. He was a general practicing physician in Alpena. He died June 14, 1945.

    Men with bear cubs outside the Union Hotel, Alpena.

    St. Bernard's School elementary class seated on the steps of the school with Father Thomas D. Flannery standing beside.

    The funeral procession at St. Bernard's Catholic Church for Reverend Father Thomas Dowd Flannery, who died January 4, 1921. Father Flannery was born in County Sligo, Ireland, on February 9, 1852 and immigrated to America in 1873. He was ordained on June 7, 1879 and transferred to Alpena on November ...

    The small ferry FLORENCE M. at an unknown location - possibly Long Lake or Thunder Bay Island

    Beck's Brewery was built in 1887 and was located on First Avenue in the center of the block between Chisholm Street and Park Place. If was owned by John Beck. Prohibition halted production in 1918. After being a storage building for numerous years, the building was razed in 1957.

    The Thunder Bay River at Alpena showing schooners and lumber stacks stretched along the river banks.

    The Thunder Bay River at Alpena showing stacks of lumber along the river's edge waiting for transport.

    CITY OF MACKINAC was a passenger and freight steamer built in 1893. See Great Lakes Maritime Collection database for more information.

    Compliments E.C. Rowen Commander U.S.S. Arizona to Mayor L.G. Dafoe Alpena, Mich. Oct. 17 - 1923

    The W.J. CARTER was built in 1886 and came under the ownership of the Churchill Lumber Company, Alpena, in 1907 until about 1913. Here the CARTER sits in the Thunder Bay River being loaded with lumber. See the Great Lakes Maritime Collection database for more information.

    The first St. Bernard's Church was organized and erected under the direction of Reverend Father Murray in 1868 on the north side of Chisholm street near its present location. The new church was built between 1880 and 1883.

    Ludwig R. Balken was born in Norway on June 11, 1865, immigrated to America in 1886, and married Margaret Eastonson in Evanston, Illinois on August 1, 1888. According to city directories, he was in Alpena as an owner of a laundry business under various names until about 1908. Ludwig resided ...

    St. Bernard's School upper level students standing on steps of school with Father Flannery.

    The burning of the original Owl Cafe on the corner of Chisholm Street and Second Avenue on February 18, 1927.

    Burning of the third floor of St. Anne's School on December 10, 1936.

    Beck's Grand Hotel, Long Lake, near Alpena, Mich.

    The bear at the Alpena Fire Department Zoo.