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Log Jam

Date: 1895
Description: Logs move down the river, swirling with cross currents, resulting in a huge log jam.
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Train Crossing a Bridge

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Description: A freight train makes its way across a bridge over a dam on the Black River.
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Billboards on Water Street

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Description: Billboards with advertising for the "Georgia Up-To-Date Minstrels" at the Opera House on Saturday, April 7. Bridge visible to the left. The J.J. McGillivra...
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Bridge with Metal Framework

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Description: Bridge with metal framework and sidewalks on each side. Man walking away from the camera on the left sidewalk. Sign across the bridge, "$10. FINE FOR DRIVI...
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Horse and Wagon on Plank Bridge

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Description: Horses and wagons passing over a plank bridge. Woman driving the lead wagon pulled by a single horse, and a man and another obscured person in the second w...
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Dam Construction Behind Railroad Bridge

Date: 1907
Description: Construction of a dam visible from behind a railroad bridge. A train is crossing the bridge.
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Four Ho-Chunk People on Bridge

Date: 1911
Description: Four Ho-Chunk people crossing a bridge spanning the Black River. This photograph was taken before the flood of October 1911, when the bridge was completely...
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Railroad Bridge

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Description: Black River Falls and the bridge spanning it, probably the second railroad bridge.
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Log Jam

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Description: Log jam floating by the first railroad bridge over the river.
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Log Jam under Hatfield Wagon Bridge

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Description: Men working to break up a log jam under the Hatfield Wagon Bridge. This is the original Hatfield Bridge, destroyed when the Hatfield Dam failed in the floo...
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Log Jam under Hatfield Bridge

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Description: Men working to break up a log jam under the Hatfield Bridge. This is the original Hatfield Bridge, destroyed when the Hatfield Dam failed in the flood of 1...
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Pontoon Bridge

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Description: Pontoon bridge across the river on Fillmore Street built after the 1911 flood.
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Crowd of People with Flag near Bridge

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Description: Crowd of people carrying a flag leaving town over the bridge, possibly heading toward the railroad depot.
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Patriotic Parade Crossing Bridge

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Description: Patriotic parade crossing the bridge into town and probably heading up German Hill. The buildings identified, from right to left, the Spaulding wagon shop,...
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Crowd of People on Bridge

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Description: Bridge into town lined with people and icy water below.
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Bridge over River

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Description: Bridge with high water underneath.
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Bridge and Dam on River

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Description: Bridge with water underneath, and a wooden levy dam.
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Ice Gorge

Date: 1876
Description: Town and business district, showing the early covered bridge across from the tail race of the powerhouse, with logs overflowing the river into yards, proba...
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Bridge and House

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Description: Muddy road crossing a bridge to a place of business, the ____fman House.
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Farm Land Scenery

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Description: View of a bridge, several wooden frame buildings, and farm land covered with snow. This land is possibly Narracong, later named Loaschings Millon Squire Cr...

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