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| Description: | Bill Payne driving a herd of large hogs through town on Main Street, possibly on the way to Adam Best's Butcher's Shop. Storefronts identified, from left t... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Man and woman posing sitting, each holding a child in their lap, and a young man, girl, and a boy holding a toy horn, are posing standing. The group is pos... |
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| Description: | Dr. Eugene Krohn driving his medicine wagon. The man behind the wagon is either Rufus Jones or Warren C. Jones. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Families gathered outside of Werner's Drugstore on annuity pay day. A sign reads "Medicine sold here" in Ho-Chunk, German, and Norwegian. The Ho-Chunk syll... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Ho-Chunk performers gathered behind a drum and Winnebago baskets at the 1908 Homecoming. Standing from the left are Jim Swallow (MaPaZoeRayKeKah), William ... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Ho-Chunk men and women sitting and standing around a large medicine drum in an area portioned off by canvas barriers in front of a lodge. Identified as the... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Corner of Main and First Street. The first two buildings on the southwest corner are Abraham Meinhold's dry goods and LeClair's hardware store. Next is A.F... |
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| Description: | A girl sits in a rocking chair as a young woman commands a dog who is dressed in dark clothing to sit. A piano or organ is in the background. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men working on telephone lines from scaffolding attached to the pole in front of the telephone exchange building. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A woman sits at a reed organ while another looks on. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Black River Falls, looking southwest. |
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| Description: | Several elephants walk up a hill in a circus parade along Main Street. They are followed by a group of horses, while bystanders watch from a platform on t... |
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| Description: | Men and children pose in front of retail businesses and from a second story window, and look out into the street. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Three women (Jennie Parsons Kelly, left, and Lena Eisenback Post, center, and an unidentified woman on the right) on Main Street in front of Yep Ah Sing's ... |
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| Description: | A stallion with long curly mane, owned by Jack Allison. Allison, a horse dealer from Taylor County, and the horse stand in front of the Post Office on Main... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elderly woman in a long skirt sitting on the front steps of a house. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Five people, possibly family, posing in front of a building. A man is standing on the left with his arms crossed, and two women stand on the right near tre... |
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| Description: | Volunteer fire fighters prepare to put out a fire on a roof. The fire company's hose cart is the vehicle with two large wheels which was attached to any av... |
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| Description: | Mrs. Charles Van Schaick, posing on horseback, is riding past the livery stable. It was unusual for women at this time to ride horseback. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Woman in a tilted hat posing in the foreground. Across the street are stores: J.J. McGillivray Sash and Door Company and Squire's Oyster House. Probably on... |
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