Knechtel Collection

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    The USS ARIZONA was launched June 19, 1915 and decommissioned on December 29, 1941 having been one of the vessels sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The vessel and crew visit

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

    A view of downtown Alpena along Second Avenue looking north from E. Chisholm St with the Maltz Opera House (Maltz Block) in the center to the right, W.H. Davison on the corner of 2nd and Chisholm, an

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

    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.

    Second Avenue, looking south, in Downtown Alpena. Maltz Theatre and the Maltz Block are on the left. At this time the Maltz Opera House was only on the second floor with its entrance along Water St.

    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

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

    Men with bear cubs outside the Union Hotel, Alpena.

    The bear at the Alpena Fire Department Zoo.

    Hotel de Beck, also known as Beck's Grand Hotel, built by John Beck in 1909 on Long Lake, eight miles north of Alpena on Long Lake Avenue. The hotel was destroyed by fire around 1919. John Beck was b

    Class photograph of middle school students [school unknown].

    St. Bernard's School elementary students sitting on steps of school.

    St. Bernard's School elementary students sitting on steps of school.

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

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

    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 A

    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