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| Date: | 07 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across the Wisconsin River, showing the wreckage left by the disastrous flood of July 24, 1912. A power dam on the Wisconsin River above Waus... |
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| Description: | Pontoon bridge across the river on Fillmore Street built after the 1911 flood. |
| Date: | 10 13 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a mill during a flood, with a man standing on the left between a bridge and the mill. A house is on the side of a tree-covered hill on the... |
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| Description: | A river has overflown its banks and is flooding a road on a bridge. Some men are on the bridge are using sticks to move ice floes. Crowds of people are wa... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a small town with a river and bridge in the foreground. High water has washed away the road and river bank at the far end of the bridge. T... |
| Date: | 04 18 1965 |
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| Description: | A flooded woods near the Wisconsin River. A small bridge and a submerged road are in the background. |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of Bright's Grove, filled with broken trees and other debris. There are two buildings on the left behind the trees. Written text on the back... |
| Date: | 10 05 1911 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the aftermath of a flood. Crowds are gathered on the river bank, the bridge and the higher ground in the background. Caption ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Aftermath of a flood. Debris of railroad ties, tracks, and cars are scattered beneath a bridge. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards men standing among several large rocks, and a road made with logs. Identified as the lying of logs on the sand bar after the flood of Black Ri... |
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| Description: | View of a railway at a construction site, with wreckage on the left side and a bridge in the background. Identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a construction site, with wreckage behind a wooden wall. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1911 f... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View of a construction site with wreckage in a ditch. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1911 flood in Black River ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Pecatonica River at the bridge. The river is flooding the town. Caption reads: "Pecatonica River on a Rampage, Darlington, , Wis." |
| Date: | 07 24 1912 |
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| Description: | View down street towards the dynamiting of the bridge over the Pigeon River during the flood. Caption reads: "Dynamiting the Bridge, Flood of July 24, 1912... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View of a bridge damaged by the 1911 flood. Debris is scattered in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Water from French Creek covers the surface of a bridge at Dates Mill near the Marquette-Columbia County line. The caption on the negative envelope states: ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Water from French Creek covers the surface of a bridge at Dates Mill near the Marquette-Columbia County line as water rushes down a lane in the pasture in ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View upstream towards five young men and boys posing on the flooded bridge at Dates Mill as water rushes from the swollen mill pond into French Creek. Anot... |
| Date: | 07 23 1912 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Below the High Bridge After the Flood. Wausau, Wisconsin." Railroad cars were swept away when dams at Brokaw and Merrill failed on th... |
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