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| Description: | Volunteer fire fighters prepare to put out a fire on a roof. The fire company's hose cart is the vehicle with two large wheels which was attached to any av... |
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| Description: | Three older boys are posing standing in a yard full of toppled bricks, probably the ruins of the blast furnace of the York Iron Company. There is a boardin... |
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| Description: | Man riding a horse into town, in front of the old Catholic Church which lost its steeple in a storm. |
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| Description: | View from field of several individuals around a large pile of brush under spits near a rough short fence and lodge. Possibly a feast fire at a powwow. |
| Date: | 08 07 1924 |
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| Description: | A view of the ruins of a cyclone, showing a roofless house and an overturned automobile in the yard. Several people are standing in the yard, and two child... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A panoramic view of Black River Falls flooded streets, possibly taken during the flood of 1911. Three men are standing on the sidewalk next to the "Tollack... |
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| Description: | Men and women examining debris in a field, possibly caused by a tornado. A tree is on top of an automobile in the center. In the far distance are fields an... |
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| Description: | View towards the front of a church, with wooden debris in the forground. People are standing near the entrance behind the debris. Identified as the old Cat... |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of three girls posing standing in front of a church among wooden debris. Identified as the old Catholic Church (formerly a Universal... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View along steep shoreline towards people among the rubble near buildings at the top of the bank on the left. The river is on the right. Location identifie... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View down wall towards a construction site. On the right arec men by a railway track with sand haulers, and a brick viaduct. Location identified as the f... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards several men on wreckage below several buildings. Identified as the damage after the flood in Black River Falls in October 1911, and showing th... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards several men on wreckage below several buildings. Identified as the damage after the flood in Black River Falls in October 1911 and showing the... |
| Date: | 10 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards river with high water flooding over several buildings behind a group of people in the foreground. Identified as the flood of the Black River i... |
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| Description: | View towards men standing by a line of sand haulers on a railway. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1911 flood in ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View along eroded shoreline of the damage from the 1911 flood of the Black River. A city street had been washed away. Three men are looking at the river. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of buildings, a railroad bridge, and in the foreground people standing on what may be a dam over the river. |
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