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Werner Clothing Store

Date: 1900
Description: Families gathered outside of Werner's Drugstore on annuity pay day. A sign reads "Medicine sold here" in Ho-Chunk, German, and Norwegian. The Ho-Chunk syll...
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Intersection of Main and First Streets

Date: 1890
Description: Corner of Main and First Street. The first two buildings on the southwest corner are Abraham Meinhold's dry goods and LeClair's hardware store. Next is A.F...
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Businesses Along Main St.

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Description: Men and children pose in front of retail businesses and from a second story window, and look out into the street.
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Main Street Piled with Snow

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Description: Winter scene with Main Street, north side, between First and Water Streets, Black River Falls, Wisconsin, piled high with snow. Mortar and pestle sign is i...
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Snowbank on Main Street

Date: 1910
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...
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Man Driving Advertising Cart on First Street

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Description: A "cart before the horse" rig advertising the "A.F. Werner, Bargains in Everything, Black River Falls, Wis.", with a man wearing a fake bushy beard and hol...
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Main Street, between Water and First Streets

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Description: Wagon piled high with chairs, with a man standing and driving a team of two horses. A man on the sidewalk is looking back at camera. There are other wagons...
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Hogs on Main Street

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Description: Boy and man herd hogs through town on Main Street, probably on the way to the stockyards near the railroad station on the east side of the Black River. Sto...
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Cart and Oxen on First Street

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Description: Oxen in yoke pulling an empty wagon at intersection of First and Main Street. Storefronts identified on the northeast corner of Main and First Streets incl...
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Cart and Oxen on Main Street

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Description: Team of two oxen in a yoke pulling an empty wagon without a driver on Main Street, although a line in attached to the yoke from above -- perhaps to put in ...
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Main Street Intersection

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Description: Two boys walking on board sidewalk of First Street away from Main Street. In the right foreground is a display case of Van Schaick photographs, in front of...
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Baby in Buggy

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Description: Baby in buggy on the west side of South First Street. Image shows the intersection of First and Main Streets. Storefronts identified, from left to right, ...
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Steam Tractor on Main Street

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Description: Elevated view of a steam tractor on Main Street with a crowd of men. A.F. Werner is located on the northeast corner of the intersection.
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Circus Performance on Main Street

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Description: Crowd watching a circus performance in the street, possibly centered on a gorilla named Johanna according to the banner in the background. There is an arch...
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Storefronts on Main Street

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Description: Men posing in front of stores. Businesses from left to right are the A.F. Werner Drugstore and Clothiers, and the Fair Store. The former has the slogan "Ba...
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Drug Store Interior

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Description: Interior of a drugstore. Two men and one woman behind the counter. Persons identified, from left to right, Mrs. Roddy, Ben Warner, and an unidentified man.
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Drug Store Interior

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Description: Man purchasing medicine in a drugstore. Two men and one woman behind the counter, all holding up products. Individuals identified, from left to right, as p...
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Two Bands on Main Street

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Description: Band in two lines, facing each other, on Main Street in front of the A.F. Werner Drugstore.
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Horse-Drawn Wagon in Parade

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Description: Horse-drawn float in parade promoting A.F. Werner, a local drugstore.
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Decorated Wagon in Parade

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Description: Group in A.F. Werner Drugstore wagon riding in parade. Wagon belonged to Ben Werner, one of the five Werner brothers.

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