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Oliver Chilled Plow Works Advertisement

Date: 1883
Description: Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f...
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Men Standing Posing on Flooded Rail Line

Date: 1919
Description: Men standing on the exposed portion of a flooded railroad track as a swiftly moving torrent of water is rushing past. Benham was a "company town" created b...
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Flooded Langdon Street

Date: 05 19 1933
Description: View of Langdon Street during flood from rain. A man is standing ankle deep in water.
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Flooded Park Street Viaduct

Date: 05 19 1933
Description: Flooded Park Street viaduct, with a railroad train on tracks above the viaduct. There is a car in the water under the viaduct, and a man is standing on the...
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Flooded Rural Road in Alabama

Date: 03 05 1915
Description: Three men are driving on a flooded rural road. Original caption reads: "In going from Fairhope, Ala. to Point Clear, Ala. the road in many places was found...
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Flooded Road in Rural Alabama

Date: 02 13 1915
Description: Two men traveling in a horse-drawn wagon on a flooded rural road. Original caption reads: "Example of road building in Lamar County on the Vernon-Columbus ...
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The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus and Flooded Road

Date: 05 30 1908
Description: The Great Wallace Shows, horses and wagons, were flooded out by a sudden cloudburst.
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Flood Damage on Railroad Tracks

Date: 05 05 1905
Description: Observing the flood damage to railroad tracks in the business section of town.
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Derailed Locomotive and Cars

Date: 1898
Description: Elevated view of the Kickapoo & Northern Railway locomotive and cars seen here after being derailed due to flooding on the Kickapoo River.
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Medina Junction Washout

Date: 1915
Description: Four men inspecting the washout of Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie tracks caused by a flood at Medina Junction. The view is looking west from th...
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Flooded Railroad Tracks

Date: 04 22 1965
Description: A panoramic view of the Mississippi River flooding during the spring, showing the dykes built along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad tracks at Sec...
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Railroad Tracks Flooding

Date: 04 21 1965
Description: View down flooded railroad tracks of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad by the Mississippi River. There are houses on the left, and in the backgroun...
Postcard

Flood Conditions

Date: 03 16 1919
Description: View showing the flood conditions on city streets from the 1919 Flood on the Trempealeau River. Four men are surveying the damage. Caption reads: "Highwate...
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Flood on Bay City Creek

Date: 1920
Description: Aftermath of the Bay City Creek flood.
Postcard

Wreckage Left by Flood

Date: 07 1912
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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Children Playing in Flooded Street

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Children in swimming suits playing in a miniature lake created by heavy rains in the area of Fox and Prospect Avenues.
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Pontoon Bridge

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Description: Pontoon bridge across the river on Fillmore Street built after the 1911 flood.
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Mill During Flood

Date: 10 13 1911
Description: Elevated view of a mill during a flood.
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Mill During Flood

Date: 10 13 1911
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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Beginning of High Water at Power Dam

Date: 10 07 1911
Description: Elevated view of the rising waters of the Wisconsin River at the construction site. This view shows the coffer dam, pile drivers, and narrow gauge railroad...

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