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    The Alpena Board of Commerce Band in uniform standing in front of City Hall.

    photo by Garlock [sp?] U.S.S. Arizona Oct. 17 - 1923

    The Alpena Business College, at the corner of First Avenue and River Street, operated from about 1899 to 1920. Mrs. Mary Veenfliet was the proprietor.

    The Alpena County Jail was located across from the Alpena County Courthouse on Chisholm Street near Ninth Avenue. It was built in 1887 of Alpena limestone at a cost of $10,000.

    The Alpena Fire Department's sleigh and horse team crossing the Second Avenue Bridge from the north during the winter.

    The Alpena Fire Department's sleigh and horse team crossing the Second Avenue Bridge from the north during the winter. The now Alpena Furniture store is in the background.

    Alpena Fire Department wagon and horse teams within department building.

    Alpena City Directory ad for Alpena Industrial Works near the turn of the century.

    This narrated slide show was a group project for a graduate class offered through Central Michigan University. It reviews and explains some of the resources available to study the history and people of Alpena.

    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.

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

    Registration for a cattle brand adopted by Millard Allen, 1914. Used Log Mark form as the form for the Cattle Brand.

    Registration for cattle and sheep brands adopted by Albert Chabot, 1915.

    Registration for cattle brand adopted by Louis Hoppe, 1920.

    Registration for cattle brand adopted by John Jackson, 1917.

    Registration for cattle brand adopted by John Jackson, 1928. Used Log Mark form as the form for the Cattle Brand.

    Registration for cattle brand adopted by William Johnson, 1918.

    Registration for battle brand adopted by John Keating, 1915.

    Registration for cattle brand adopted by Henry Kissau, 1923. Log mark form used to register cattle brand.

    Registration for cattle brands adopted by David Mulvena, 1899, and William Mulvena, 1903.