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York Iron Works

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Description: View across river of York Iron Works. On the hill are the boardinghouse and dance hall. Just below the boardinghouse there appears to be a quarry.
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Man in Boat by York Iron Works

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Description: View down hill of man posed sitting in a boat near the bank of a river taken from an iron mound of the York Iron Works. There is a view of the blast furnac...
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Men Posed Around Logs

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Description: Group of men and children posed in front of large piles of snow-covered logs, ready to be dumped from landings into the river after the spring thaw.
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Men Posed on top of Stacked Logs

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Description: Group of men posed atop and among stacks of logs on landing.
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Log Dam on the Black River

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Description: Seven men posed sitting and standing on a log dam a hundred yards north of a railroad bridge crossing the Black River. Remnants of each end still exist.
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Men Sitting on Pile of Logs

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Description: View over snow-covered ground or a frozen river of a group of men sitting on piles of logs. Behind them on the right is a log sorting pier. There are two b...
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Men Posed On Logs

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Description: Elevated view of a group of men posed standing and holding logs in a river with pike hooks. There appears to be a dog on the right of the group standing on...
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Sorting Logs

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Description: View from shoreline of two men posed standing on log sorting piers half a mile above the Railroad Bridge on the Black River. There is a large log jam behin...
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Sorting Logs

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Description: Loggers near a log jam under a railroad bridge.
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Log Jam

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Description: View from shoreline of a log jam under a railroad bridge about half a mile from the Black River Falls Dam. On the opposite shoreline, men sit atop a fence....
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Logging Clean-Up Crew

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Description: Group of men and a boy posed holding logging tools and standing in front of tents on the banks of a river, probably just south of Black River Falls. A man ...
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Eating in a Tent

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Description: Group of men and one boy posed sitting on benches on either side of a long table for a meal in an open-sided tent on the banks of a river. In the backgroun...
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Construction of Bridge

Date: 1912
Description: Elevated view of a construction site of a bridge across the cutoff on the river.
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Group of People on Rocky Shorline of River

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Description: View from shoreline of two women posed on logs on rocky shoreline by the river. Four or five young boys sit on the rocks on the left. There is a railroad b...
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Bridge Over River

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Description: Elevated view over buildings of men and women walking across a bridge over a high river. There is a railroad bridge in the background.
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Bridge Over River

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Description: Elevated view from shoreline of high water passing under a bridge. There is a woman standing at the railing on the bridge. The town is on the far shoreline...
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Trees in Flood

Date: 1911
Description: View across water of trees and wooden buildings submerged in water, probably during the 1911 (or 1905) flood of the Black River.
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Picnic by a River

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Description: Four men and seven women are posing sitting and standing around a picnic on the edge of a river, with a man standing on a bridge in the background. The fir...
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Group of People Posing by a River

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Description: Six women, two children, and a man are posing sitting and standing on logs and rocks on the shoreline of a river. In the background is the wooden support s...
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Four Rowboats

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Description: View across water towards four rowboats, in which are sitting men, women, and children. They are close to a wooded river shoreline.

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