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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... |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | View of Main and Water Streets while experiencing severe flooding. |
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Description: | Three older boys are posing standing in a yard full of toppled bricks, probably the ruins of the blast furnace of the York Iron Company. There is a boardin... |
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Description: | Four boys are posing standing and sitting among the debris of a collapsed wooden building at the Jackson County Fairgrounds, probably caused by a tornado. ... |
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Description: | Group of men and women looking at the debris of a building, possibly a house, destroyed by a tornado. Wreckage of an automobile on the left. |
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Description: | Tree uprooted near the grandstand at the Jackson County Fairgrounds, probably by a tornado. |
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Description: | Collapsed wooden building, possibly at the Jackson County Fairgrounds, probably due to a tornado. |
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Description: | Debris of wood and board scattered around a field, probably due to a tornado. Group of people in the distance on the left side of the image. |
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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: | Pontoon bridge across the river on Fillmore Street built after the 1911 flood. |
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Description: | Men filling in Main Street after the 1911 flood. Forms are probably for the basement of the Cozy Corner Tavern. |
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Description: | Man riding a horse into town, in front of the old Catholic Church which lost its steeple in a storm. |
Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | Remains of building foundations after a large fire. The firefire was believed to be incendiary in origin, arising from a feud between owners over land clai... |
Date: | 1876 |
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Description: | Town with logs overflowing the river into yards, probably the Ice Gorge of 1876. |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | View looking across the river east into Black River Falls during the flood, showing the elevated level of the river and buildings falling into the water. C... |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Four telephone operators pose on the steps of the Black River Falls Exchange Office Building. The second woman from the bottom is probably Mrs. W.E. (Hagen... |
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Description: | Elevated view of Black River Falls after the flood of 1911. Several men and youth are visible in the foreground, in addition to the new dam construction. |
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Description: | View from street of remaining storefronts of two damaged buildings. |
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Description: | View from field of several individuals around a large pile of brush under spits near a rough short fence and lodge. Possibly a feast fire at a powwow. |
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