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| 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: | 1901 |
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| Description: | South side of Main Street from the intersection with Merrill Street. Various storefronts are on the left, including J.M. McCormick Dry Goods and Groceries;... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View of Main and Water Streets while experiencing severe flooding. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | View of Main Street, lined with the fire department, city clerk's office, and Pugh's Battery - Electric Shop. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Main Street, Black River Falls, Wis." View up Main Street, with people walking along the sidewalks, and automobiles parked along the curb. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated panoramic view. Business district has a cluster of larger brick buildings at left and center, behind a sprinkling of houses. Very large building i... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the Court House. Hills are in the distance. Caption reads: "Bird's-eye View from Court House, showing Main Street and Black River, Black... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of downtown, with a bridge and buildings in the background and storefronts in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Horse and carriages passing in front of the Baptist Church, the Jackson County Courthouse, and the dentist office of R.C. Gebhardt. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Winter scene looking toward Main Street from South First Street, with an arch over the intersection. A man is operating a road grader pulled by four horses... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Large group posing in front of a frame house. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Man posing with two horses with white-blazed foreheads. Taken in town, with buildings in the background and snow on the ground. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Drummers and dancers at pow wow led by Chief Winneshiek, below Lutheran Church in a canvas enclosure. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Annie Massey (KeKoRaSinchKah), left, and Hester Decorah Lowery (NoGinWinKah). Hester lived to be well over one hundred years old. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two Ho-Chunk girls wrapped in Racine Woolen Mills shawls walking with a young boy down Water Street downtown. The Journal sign is visible behind them, and ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Men and women pose on an old stage coach pulled by four horses. In the background are commercial buildings at the corner of Main and First Streets. The coa... |
| Date: | 10 06 1911 |
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| Description: | View of Monsos Brothers Grocery & Crockery after most of the building was washed away by the flooding Black River. High, rushing water can be seen on the r... |
| Date: | 05 1911 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view from street of Martin Lein/Lien's funeral procession, showing Main and Water Streets before the flood of 1911. The procession includes sever... |
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