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The Eagle Hotel

Keeping in mind that the city of Manistee was once a large industrial center due to the production of lumber and salt, a lot of...

Dating a photo by streets & highways

One of the challenges of working with old photos is when they are poorly labeled, often without a date. So that leads to finding...

"Manistee: A Promise Becomes Reality"

Every now and again, when attempting to organize things down at the museum, we will come across a true relic from another day and age...a...

What's cooking at the Hotel Chippewa?

Several years ago at the museum I discovered a bound book that contains roughly 14 months (late 1938 through 1939) of menus from the...

Reforestation in Manistee County

Hello. I am Kurt H. Schindler, a volunteer at the museum. I am scanning and indexing the museum’s estimated 20,000 old photographs. ...

Otto Firzlaff's buttons

I’ve mentioned museum volunteer Deb Fortier before in the weekly column that I write for the Manistee News Advocate and how from...

Department store Christmas catalogs were once seasonal signifiers

These past few weeks I have been thinking more and more about the signifiers of the Christmas season. However, because of the pandemic...

Tragedy at Orchard Beach Crossing

NOTE: Sections of the following blog post were taken from a two-part series written for the Manistee News Advocate in the July 11 and...