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

 

The Downtown area...

N. 8th St., 1960's, looking north

N. 8th St., 1950's

N. 8th St., north from New York Avenue, 1950

N. 8th St., 1940's, looking north of New York Avenue

N. 8th St., south from Ontario Avenue

N. 8th St. from the top of the Security Bank Building

N. 8th Street and St. Clair Avenue

N. 8th St. Parade at corner of 8th St.and Center Avenue, looking south

N. 8th St., looking north, Fountain Park one block up on the left

N. 8th St., looking north

N. 8th Street, looking south. Prange's on the left, 1935

N. 8th Street, looking south from the corner of 8th Street and Ontario Avenue Foeste Hotel on the right.

N. 8th St., looking south from Wisconsin Avenue, 1921

N. 8th St., looking north

N. 8th Street, looking north of Center Avenue, 1918

N. 8th Street, looking north from Jefferson Avenue. The old Post office is on the left.

N. 8th St., looking North from New York Avenue

N. 8th St. and New York Avenue, 1909

N. 8th Street Looking North, 1909

N. 8th Street, looking north from Pennsylvania Avenue., 1908

N. 8th St., looking North from Pennsylvania Avenue, 1908

N. 8th St., looking north, 1915

N. 8th Street, looking north, 1909

N. 8th Street, looking north from Ontario Avenue, 1912

N. 8th St., looking north, 1914

N. 8th St., looking north from Ontario Ave., with the Foeste hotel and Fountain Park on the left, 1917

N. 8th Street, looking north from New York Ave.

N. 8th Street, looking south from near Erie Ave., with Fountain Park on the right, 1910

N. 8th St., during the Elks and U. C. T. Convention, June 4, 1912

N. 8th St., looking South from Ontario Ave., 1917

N. 8th Street, looking South from New York Ave., 1914

N. 8th Street, looking South from New York Ave., 1915

N. 8th St., looking south from Ontario Ave.

N. 8th St., looking north, 1911

N. 8th Street, looking north of Center Avenue

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

N. 10th St., about 1910

 

Hospitals...

Memorial Hospital, 1960's

Memorial Hospital, also in the '60's

Rocky Knoll, 1940's

Reiss Home for the Aged, 1940's

St. Nicholas Hospital, 1940'

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

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 "North Side" High School

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

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

   

 

Libraries...

Mead Library, 1910's

Mead Library, 1910's   (1)

Mead Library, 1925

 

 

Churches...

Holy Name Church in the 1920's   (1)

Lutheran Trinity Church, 1907

St. Peter Claver Church

 

 

Other Buildings...

The Court House, about 1910   (1)

The Asylum, 1908

Reiss Coal Company, about 1920   (1)

Bank of Sheboygan, 1940's

The Security National Bank, in the 1930's

Municipal Auditorium and Armory, 1940's

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

Post Office, corner 8th & Jefferson, 1911

Post Office, corner 8th and Jefferson, 1909

City Hall, 1920's

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

The Train Depot, 1910

Prange's Department Store, about 1910   (1)

Prange's Department Store, 1940's

   

  

Parks....

Vollrath Park, 1950's

Fountain Park, dated 1908

Fountain Park, 1905

Sheridan Park, the fountain, about 1910   (1)

Vollrath Park Zoo

     

  

Odds and Ends...

The 8th Street Bridge   (1)

The New Jersey Avenue Bridge, near Wildwood Cemetery

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)

Sheboygan Lighthouses and Breakwater

Bird's Eye View of Sheboygan, 1901.  This is the first known postcard showing a view of Sheboygan

River Scene "Around" Sheboygan, 1906

     

 

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.

The Gentlemen's Massage Room, 1909

The Gentlemen's Bath Room, 1909

The Ladies' Rest Room, 1912

The Natatorium, 1910

"A Winter Scene," 1910

The Music Pavilion, 1913

Outside View of The Natatorium, 1915

"A Winter Scene," 1915

Getting Water from the Mineral Spring, 1908

The Dining Room, 1915

   

  

Elkhart Lake....

Lake Street, Elkhart Lake, about 1950

Lake Street, Elkhart Lake, about 1950

Elkhart Lake's Camp Brosius, 1950's

Elkhart Lake's Road America, 1966

Peoples of Sheboygan County....

William C. Brickner

William C. Brickner

William C. Brickner

William C. Brickner

Anna Hauck

Lilia Fleck

Lilia Fleck

John Delavan

Frankie Ogle

Mrs. T. C. Hawkins

Hattie Ubing

Genevieve Fleck

George Brickner

Lillah Brickner

Nell Jackson

Georgie Brickner

Regina Hawkins

Regina Hawkins

Regina Hawkins

Regina Hawkins

Mrs. T. C. Hawkins, Sr.

Thomas Hawkins, Sr.

Florence V. Ogle

Tom Hawkins

Mrs. Philip Hauck, Sr.

Ruth Chase, 15 months old

Regina Hawkins, 14 months, Sept. 6, 1890

Frankie Ogle

Frank Ogle

Regina Cooper Hawkins, age 6 months 3 days

Georgie Hawkins

Regina Hawkins and Ruth Chase

Clara Hauck Fleck (Mrs. J. J. Fleck)

August Zimbal