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Photographs and postcards of old Sheboygan.  Click on the thumbnails to enlarge the pictures...

 

The Downtown area...

N. 8th St., about 1907

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N. 8th St., dated 1912

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N. 8th St., about the 1910's

Downtown   (1)

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Looking North on 8th St., 1920's

The Foeste Hotel, about 1910's   (1)

The Foeste Hotel, about 1908   (1)

Looking across the Sheboygan River at the Factory District, about 1910   (1)

   

   Streets near Downtown...

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N. 10th St., about 1910

     

 

Hospitals...

Memorial Hospital, 1960's

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Memorial Hospital, also in the '60's

Rocky Knoll, 1940's

Reiss Home for the Aged, 1940's

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St. Nicholas Hospital, 1940'

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St. Nicholas Hospital, early 1960's

   

 

Schools...

Sheboygan High School, about 1909

Sheboygan High School, 1908

Sheboygan High School, 1908

Sheboygan High School, about 1906

Sheboygan High School, 1908

Sheboygan High School, 1906

Sheboygan High School, 1910

Sheboygan High School, and later, Sheboygan Central High School, 1947

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Sheboygan High School in the 1920's.   Later, it was renamed Sheboygan Central High School

Sheboygan High School, and later, Sheboygan Central High School, 1947

Sheboygan High School, and later, Sheboygan Central High School, 1947

Sheboygan High School, and later, Sheboygan Central High School, 1947

Sheboygan Central High School, 1947

Sheboygan North High School, 1953

Sheboygan North High School, 1965

Sheboygan South Side Junior High School, Now Farnsworth Middle School, 1985

Sheboygan Second Ward School, 1910

Sheboygan First Ward School, 1908.  Also called U. S. Grant School

Sheboygan Seventh Ward School, 1910

Sheboygan Sixth Ward School, 1910's

Sheboygan Fifth Ward School, 1908

     

 

Libraries...

Mead Library, 1910's

Mead Library, 1910's   (1)

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Mead Library, 1925

 

 

Churches...

Holy Name Church in the 1920's   (1)

     

 

Other Buildings...

The Court House, about 1910   (1)

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The Asylum, 1908

Reiss Coal Company, about 1920   (1)

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Bank of Sheboygan, 1940's

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The Security National Bank, in the 1930's

Municipal Auditorium and Armory, 1940's

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Post Office, corner 8th & Jefferson, ca.1910

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Post Office, corner 8th & Jefferson, 1911

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Post Office, corner 8th and Jefferson, 1909

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City Hall, 1920's

The Fire Department, in the 1920's   (1)

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The Train Depot, 1910

Prange's Department Store, about 1910   (1)

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Prange's Department Store, 1940's

   

  

Parks....

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Vollrath Park, 1950's

Fountain Park, dated 1908

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Fountain Park, 1905

Sheridan Park, the fountain, about 1910   (1)

  

Odds and Ends...

The 8th Street Bridge   (1)

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The New Jersey Avenue Bridge, near Wildwood Cemetery

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The Sheboygan Interurban

Trolley car accident in 1912.  A trolley car fell from the 8th Street bridge, killing three passengers.  (1)

Sheboygan Pier and Lighthouse, about 1910   (1)

Sheboygan Mineral Water Works Company, 1907   (1)

   

 

Born's Park Sanitarium.  This private retreat was located at what is now the corner of 14th Street and Michigan Avenue.  It took up the whole block south of Michigan and west of 14th Street.

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The Gentlemen's Massage Room, 1909

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The Gentlemen's Bath Room, 1909

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The Ladies' Rest Room, 1912

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The Natatorium, 1910

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"A Winter Scene," 1910

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The Music Pavilion, 1913

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Outside View of The Natatorium, 1915

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"A Winter Scene," 1915

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Getting Water from the Mineral Spring, 1908

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The Dining Room, 1915

   

  

Elkhart Lake....

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Lake Street, Elkhart Lake, about 1950

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Lake Street, Elkhart Lake, about 1950

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Elkhart Lake's Camp Brosius, 1950's

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Elkhart Lake's Road America, 1966

  

 

 

 

(1) Scans courtesy of Jerry Danks (tip of the hat!!)

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