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Black River Falls Library

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Description: Interior of a library with tables and shelves full of books, probably the Black River Falls Library located in a building next door to the house of Frances...
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Jackson County Poor Home

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Description: Man posed sitting in a buggy pulled by a single horse in front of a two-story brick building, probably the Jackson County Poor Home.
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Union High School

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Description: Union High School, constructed in 1871. It later probably became a grade school.
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Union High School

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Description: Union High School, constructed in 1871. It later probably became a grade school. Men, perhaps workmen, are sitting in the second and third floor windows, a...
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Union High School

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Description: Union High School, constructed in 1871. It later probably became a grade school. A man, woman and three children are posed sitting and standing on the step...
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High School

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Description: High school constructed in 1897, surrounded by snow-covered ground and a man posed standing by the entrance.
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Evangelical Lutheran Church

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Description: Large group, probably a congregation, posed standing in front of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by a snow-covered road, east of the Jackson County Courtho...
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Church in Hixton

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Description: Frame house and church surrounded by snow-covered ground, probably in Hixton. First built in 1877 as a Congregational Church, it cost $2000. It later becam...
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William Price Memorial Window

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Description: William Price Memorial window in the Methodist Church. Price was the town's most prominent and wealthiest citizen. The Methodist Church burned down in 1945...
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Church and Houses

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Description: Church building and two frame houses.
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Schoolhouse

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Description: Schoolhouse, probably the Waldrich/Waldrick School.
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Church

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Description: Church, probably the Second Methodist Church, built in 1858 on the northwest corner of Fourth and Harrison Streets.
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Grist Mill

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Description: Man posed standing on a bank in front of the grist mill located on Squaw Creek, probably operated by Narracong and later Loesching, and then possibly Johns...
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Water Tower

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Description: Men posed standing on top of the City Water Tower, probably seventy feet high. A smaller group of men stand at the base behind a fence, and there is snow o...
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Water Tower

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Description: In the far background on the left a man is posed sitting in a buggy hitched to a single horse in a field near the water tower. Other people are standing be...
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Harrison Street Bridge

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Description: Men posed standing on the rocky river bank and bridge, probably the Harrison Street Bridge. A sign on the bridge says: "? Fine for driving or riding on thi...
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Harrison Street Bridge

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Description: View looking down hill of bridge, probably the Harrison Street Bridge, leading into town over the river. There is a man standing on the bridge, and a blurr...
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Harrison Street Bridge

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Description: View from what appears to be a lumber yard of men posed standing on the newly constructed Harrison Street bridge that replaced one destroyed in the flood o...
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Ice Harvesting on the Black River

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Description: Six men harvesting ice, probably from above the river dam on the Black River, in front of the railroad bridge. There is a horse standing on the ice on the ...
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Street Sprinkler

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Description: Elevated view of man filling a street sprinkler or "water wagon" pulled by two horses near the intersection of First and Main Streets.

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