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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the building that housed the gallery of Van Schaick and the dental offices of Edward F. Long. Over the years, the building also ... |
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| Description: | A. (Annen or Arnen) J. Roiseland's photograph gallery, opposite the Jackson County Court House, with a display case outside it. The City Library is to the ... |
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| Description: | Dilapidated buildings, one has a photograph gallery sign, possibly North Second Street. The building with the photograph gallery sign may be the first stud... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of signs that advertise "GEM," list "C.J. Van Schaick, Black River Falls, Wis.," and a hat. GEM may be a manufacturer of photographic equip... |
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| Description: | A man sleeping in a chair, possibly Thomas Thunder (HoonkHaGaKah). On the back wall of Van Schaick’s studio are photographs he made available for purchase. |
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| Description: | Two young men seated in a doctor's office, possibly Irwin and Robert Krohn. |
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| Description: | Native American man, possibly John Swallow, smoking a pipe near a barred window, possibly a jail, except the window has panes and curtains, and at his feet... |
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| Description: | Man standing in the open rear barred doorway of the Jackson County Bank, holding a piece of watermelon, surrounded by barred windows that have panes and cu... |
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| Description: | Man hanging upside down from the top of a telephone pole with spectators below. O.J. Heath Saloon on the northeast corner of the intersection of First and ... |
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| Description: | Frame house on fire, and men standing on stone fence in front of the burning building. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Building on fire, probably the McGillavray Sash and Door Company in the summer of 1912. The fire probably started from sparks from a steam engine used to f... |
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| Description: | Crowd watching a railway crane lift a boxcar back on the track from the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. |
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| Description: | Crowd watching a railway crane lift a boxcar from the Chicago and Northwestern Railway back on the track. |
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| Description: | Crowd watching a railway crane lift a boxcar from the Chicago and Northwestern Railway back on the track. |
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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: | Two men posing in front of a small locomotive, probably a donkey engine used to refill downtown after the flood. |
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| Description: | Black River Falls and the bridge spanning it, probably the second railroad bridge. |
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| Description: | Woman and child standing in the shadows among the rocks and logs along the river as a freight train crosses the elevated bridge above. |
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| Description: | Freight train crossing river on a bridge north of Black River Falls. |
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