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Filter: Year of 1900-1999
| 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: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Construction site with construction crew working, people walking on the sidewalk, and a billboard advertising Oshkosh B'gosh. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View of Main and Water Streets while experiencing severe flooding. |
| 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of a snowbank in the middle of the north side of Main Street between Water and First Streets, Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Storefronts identi... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Tourists look on as a group of Ho-Chunk dressed in traditional regalia are walking down the street during the Homecoming Celebration. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Jim Swallow (MaPaZoeRayKeKah) and Pinkey Bigsolder (HoWaWinKah), as well as an unidentified child, crossing at the corner of Main and South First Street. J... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of Ho-Chunk gathering in front of Werner Drugstore on Main Street. The signpost on the right side indicates that English was not the first language... |
| 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: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A group of performers taking a break from entertaining tourists. The man on the left is wearing a traditional Ho-Chunk beaded shirt, belt, and breechcloth ... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Groups of Ho-Chunk and non-Indians gathering on the streets of Black River Falls during the 1908 Homecoming Celebration. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A group of Ho-Chunk women wrapped in shawls gathering at the temporary Ho-Chunk village. Identified as the Homecoming Powwow at the intersection of Main an... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A Ho-Chunk man dressed in a mix of native and contemporary clothing dancing around singers seated around a drum. Ho-Chunk men are sitting and standing arou... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A cattail mat–covered wigwam (ciiporoke) and a small teepee were set up in a mock Ho-Chunk village for the 1908 homecoming celebration. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of five framed images from around Black River Falls; the bridge crossing the river, Main Street, the Court House Yard and founta... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of a street scene. Groups of people are gathered along the sidewalks near storefronts. A building on the left has a painted sign... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the devastation after a flood in central Black River Falls. Caption reads: "Where City Once Stood - Business Section." |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View from wood sidewalk towards a marching band parading up Main Street during a patriotic celebration. There is a banner that reads: "Welcome" in the back... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Copy photograph of an outdoor portrait of a group of men standing and kneeling in front of a line of deer suspended across First Street in Black River Fall... |
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