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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of town, showing a major industrial area. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the town from a boxcar. A railroad train is headed towards a bridge over the lake. Caption reads: The ideal fishing resort of the One Thou... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Car ferry on the Wisconsin River at Merrimac. A ferry has operated at this site since the 1840's. In 1924 the privately owned ferry was replaced by this wo... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard showing a man driving an early open automobile with a railroad overpass behind him. Caption reads: "Out for a Spin, Bonduel, Wis." |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | View of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad drawbridge and trestle. |
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| Description: | One side of a concrete dam with a railroad bridge to the right, and houses in the background. |
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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... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A day passenger train crossing the high North Western railroad bridge over the Chippewa River. Railroad tracks are along the shoreline in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad pontoon bridge between Marquette, Iowa, and Prairie du Chien. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of John Lawler's pile-pontoon railway bridge over both channels of the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien, and McGregor, Iowa. East draw, 39... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the pontoon bridge construction. People are standing on and near the railroad tracks in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of John Lawler's pile-pontoon railway bridge over the Mississippi River. Three men are standing and sitting on the bridge in the foreground. Bu... |
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| Description: | Black River Falls and the bridge spanning it, probably the second railroad bridge. |
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| Description: | Woman and child standing in the shadows among the rocks and logs along the river as a freight train crosses the elevated bridge above. |
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| Description: | Freight train crossing river on a bridge north of Black River Falls. |
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| Description: | Men standing on top of a freight train crossing the river, and a log dam before the flood. Painted rocks in the river advertise for A.F. Werner. |
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| Description: | Freight train on bridge over river, probably taken from the mouth of Snow Creek. |
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| Description: | G. B. & W. Railroad Bridge and the building of the Hatfield Dam. |
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| Description: | Crowd on the rocky shore of the river, the railroad bridge in the distance. |
| Date: | 10 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Joseph L. "Roundy" Coughlin, sports writer for the "Wisconsin State Journal," and two other men in a Larson Falls Flyer motorboat on a lake. |
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