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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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Monroe Street Businesses

Date: 1958
Description: Exterior view of businesses along 1831-1841 Monroe Street, including: H & R Variety store, Schensky Hardware, Archer's Pharmacy and Main Western Auto.
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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...
Postcard

Elevated View of Town

Date: 1905
Description: View looking southwest. Labeled on photograph: Post Office, Beebes Drugs, Opera House, Fair Store, Bank. Caption reads: "New Richmond, Wis. Looking S.W."
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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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Decorated Wagon in Parade

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Description: Group of people in A.F. Werner Drugstore wagon riding in parade.
Postcard

Panoramic View of Capitol Square, West Corner

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Description: Panoramic view of Capitol Square, seen from the West corner. Originally functioned as an oversized post card. Identifiable businesses include Haswell Furni...
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Panoramic View of La Crosse

Date: 1900
Description: Four-panel Panoramic view of La Crosse. Indentifiable businesses in view include: J. Hogan Wholesale Grocer, T.H. Spence Drug Co., Union Refrigerator Trans...

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