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Horse-Drawn Sleighs at Railroad Station

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Description: Loaded sleighs and wagons approaching the railroad station. Railroad cars are along the left.
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Men Unloading Boxes

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Description: Elevated view of men unloading boxes at the railroad station, probably strawberries and blueberries.
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Men Unloading Boxes

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Description: Elevated view of men unloading boxes at the railroad station, probably strawberries and blueberries.
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Speaker at Railroad Station

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Description: Crowd at railroad station listening to a whistle-stop speaker standing on the back of a caboose. Probably William McKinley.
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Workmen Installing Telephone Poles

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Description: Workmen erecting a telephone pole with a horse team.
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Lineman Suspended above Street

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Description: Elevated view towards a lineman sitting in a suspended seat, possibly stringing telephone line. There is an automobile parked near a brick building across ...
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Team of Horses with Winch

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Description: Elevated view of team of horses powering a winch for moving a house at the rear of the Jackson County Bank. Men are probably preparing the lot for the hous...
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Team of Horses with Winch

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Description: Elevated view of team of horses powering a winch for moving a house at the rear of the Jackson County Bank.
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Team of Horses with Winch

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Description: Team of horses powering a winch for moving a house. The winch was anchored to a post in the ground, logs were then placed under the house foundation and re...
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Team of Horses with Winch

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Description: Team of horses powering a winch and moving a frame building. Before the flood of 1911, moving the Express building from the northeast corner of Main and Se...
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Men Loading Barrels on Wagons

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Description: Men loading barrels on horse-drawn wagons, probably the Onalaska Pickling and Canning Company on Winnebago Avenue.
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Senior High School

Date: 1897
Description: Workers pose on scaffolding in front of the Senior High School during construction. A child and a man with a bicycle are on the lower left side underneath ...
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Men Building Roof

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Description: Men roofing a building in town.
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Men Repairing Street

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Description: Men filling in Main Street after the 1911 flood. Forms are probably for the basement of the Cozy Corner Tavern.
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Men Working on First Street

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Description: Men working on the passage of Town Creek under First Street, one-half block north of Main Street.
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Men Working on First Street

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Description: Men working on the passage of Town Creek under First Street, one-half block north of Main Street.
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Men Working on Building

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Description: Men constructing a building, or laying a foundation for the post-flood business district dam, using steam-powered machinery in front of the Merchants Hotel...
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Men Building Dam

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Description: Men building the post-flood business district dam. The flood of 1911 went around the Black River Falls Dam and washed out most of the business section of t...
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Men Building Dam

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Description: Men laying the foundation for the post-flood business district dam.
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Men Building Dam

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Description: Men constructing the post-flood business district dam using steam-powered machinery.

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