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Medicine Wagon Driving through Town

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Description: Dr. Eugene Krohn driving his medicine wagon. The man behind the wagon is either Rufus Jones or Warren C. Jones.
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Telephone Workers

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of men working on telephone lines from scaffolding attached to the pole in front of the telephone exchange building.
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Burning Building and Volunteer Fire Fighters

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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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Men Posing Outside Local Businesses

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Description: Seventeen men and boys are posing in front of the storefronts on a sidewalk on the north side of Main Street, between First and Second Streets, including O...
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Men Using Tractor and Threshing Machine

Date: 1897
Description: Large group portrait of men and young boys operating a steam tractor that is being used for belt-driven threshing machinery in a field. In the foreground a...
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Farm Family Posing Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: View down driveway towards a farm family posing in front of their farmhouse and farm buildings. An older man and woman are sitting. Three women are standin...
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Intersection of First and Main Streets

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Description: Man leaning on electric street light. Buildings and ornamental street light show post-flood developments. Building on northwest corner of intersection in p...
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Billboards on Water Street

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Description: Billboards with advertising for the "Georgia Up-To-Date Minstrels" at the Opera House on Saturday, April 7. Bridge visible to the left. The J.J. McGillivra...
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Horse and Wagon on Plank Bridge

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Description: Horses and wagons passing over a plank bridge. Woman driving the lead wagon pulled by a single horse, and a man and another obscured person in the second w...
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Horse-Drawn Wagons on Water Street

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Description: Two wagons and teams driving past the J.J. McGillivray Sash and Door Company. Two men in the wagon pulled by two horses in the foreground, and a man in the...
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Boy with Wagon on First Street

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Description: Boy driving the City Delivery wagon pulled by a single horse and accompanied by a white dog. A man is standing next to the wagon. Storefronts include, from...
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Main Street, First Street Intersection

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Description: Native American man, and two women in a wagon pulled by a single horse. Storefronts include a jeweler on the left with an awning advertising books and stat...
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Main Street, First Street Intersection

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Description: Buildings on the southeast section of the intersection of Main and First Streets. Two freight wagons with teams of two horses in front of stores. Man cross...
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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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Road Grader Plowing Snow

Date: 1900
Description: Winter scene looking toward Main Street from South First Street, with an arch over the intersection. A man is operating a road grader pulled by four horses...
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Man Riding Bicycle

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Description: Man riding bicycle down First Street near Main Street. In the background is a man driving a horse and two-wheeled buggy on Main Street. Storefronts identif...
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Cattle on Main Street

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Description: Men driving cattle down Main Street, and a surrey with a team of two horses on the right. Storefronts identified on the north side of Main Street include J...
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Cattle in Snow on Main Street

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Description: Winter scene with short-horned cattle on snow-covered Main Street, Black River Falls, Wisconsin.
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Seven Men and a Boy on a Wagon

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Description: View across unpaved street towards six men posing sitting, and a boy and a man posing standing on a wagon pulled by a single horse. One man is obscured sta...
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Man and Woman on Sidewalk

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Description: View from sidewalk of a horse-drawn buggy parked along the side of Main Street, looking southeast at First Street. An immigrant couple, possibly Norwegian,...

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