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| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a construction site, with wreckage behind a wooden wall. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1911 f... |
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| Description: | View of a construction site, with a ditch in the foreground. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1911 flood in Black... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of several wooden buildings under construction in a field. Identified as Vandrieul, Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | Men working on the foundation of a building, possibly laying a foundation for the post-flood business district dam. |
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| Description: | View from railroad tracks towards industrial activity on the edge of the river, possibly building a dam. |
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| Description: | Two men on a scaffold inside the Werner Opera House. Advertisements for local merchants are on the stage curtain, and there is an upright piano in the fore... |
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| Description: | Men posed demolishing one house and building another on the same property, possibly the R.P. Ravey property. Two boys and a girl are posed standing in the ... |
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| Description: | Men posed standing at the construction site. They are probably laying the foundation of a building. A small wooden building in the background has a poster ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view over railroad tracks of York Iron Works. Probably the construction of the blast furnace. |
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| Description: | Elevated view over railroad tracks of York Iron Works. Probably the construction of the blast furnace. |
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| Description: | Group of men at the construction of a railroad branch line among piles of stones. Railroad ties placed on the ground are visible on the platform in the bac... |
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| Description: | Four men in the foreground are posing standing with shovels in a large hole in the ground. In the background behind a wall, men are working near cars along... |
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| Description: | Sand quarrying in German Hill to obtain fill for use in the business district after a flood. Steam shovel in use. |
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| Description: | Walking dredge in operation, to rid the county of marshes, probably on the east side of Jackson County. Men working in lower left. |
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| Description: | G. B. & W. Railroad Bridge and the building of the Hatfield Dam. |
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| Description: | Men working on the foundation of a building, possibly laying a foundation for the post-flood business district dam. |
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| Description: | Men working on the foundation of a building, possibly laying a foundation for the post-flood business district dam. |
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| Description: | Men constructing a building, or laying a foundation for the post-flood business district dam, using steam-powered machinery in front of the Merchants Hotel... |
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| Description: | Men building the post-flood business district dam. The flood of 1911 went around the Black River Falls Dam and washed out most of the business section of t... |
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| Description: | Men laying the foundation for the post-flood business district dam. |
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