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    Man driving horse on a stand-behind cart.

    Alpena Fire Department hose cart being driven west on 10th Street at the intersection of Chisholm Street.

    Man driving a team of horses pulling a fancy couch.

    Two men with a team of horses.

    Ships in the Thunder Bay River below Second Avenue Bridge.

    Cut logs floating down the Thunder Bay River to be cut at Alpena sawmills.

    Logs being loaded on a railroad flatcar by an A-frame steam jammer.

    Log jam on the Thunder Bay River.

    Maltz Block on East side of Second Avenue between River and Water Streets. Maltz Opera House is center with Alpena National Bank and stores on either side.

    Thunder Bay River at Alpena, Michigan with sawmills in background.

    Second Avenue and Chisholm Street looking South in downtown Alpena.

    Stacks of lumber awaiting shipping along the Thunder Bay River in Alpena, Michigan.

    Above taken from "The Town That Wouldn't Die" by Robert Haltiner.

    This "sorting gap" in the Thunder Bay River was a series of pens made of logs chained together. Men with "pike poles" would stand on the logs, read the "log mark" on the logs coming down the river. T

    Looking Northeast down Second Avenue from about Lockwood Street. Chisholm Street is the first cross street. St. Mary's Church steeple is visible just past the bridge.

    A scene along the Thunder Bay River in Alpena, Michigan, with stacks of lumber along the shores and vessels tied up along the river banks.

    Birch Hill is an area near Grand Lake in Presque Isle County. It is very scenic and popular with tourists. The Birch Hill Hotel was built here in the early 1900s.

    The Haltiner Family at a logging camp in Northern Michigan.

    Louise died December 8, 1891.

    The Globe Hotel was located on Washington Avenue just in from Chisholm Street in the present location of Trinity Episcopal Church parking lot.