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Group Posing Behind Logs Along Riverbank

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Description: Group portrait of men and women, all wearing hats, peeking over the top of a large log along the riverbank. Other large logs are piled behind them. A railr...
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Swimmer Bridge Diving

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Description: View across river towards a swimmer, caught in mid-air, jumping from the railroad bridge. Two people are on top of the bridge looking down. In the backgrou...
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Diver Standing on Bridge

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Description: View across water towards a diver posing on the railroad bridge over the river. Another man is standing on the railroad tracks on the left. Buildings are o...
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Woman in Front of Tents

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Description: View across lawn towards a woman posing standing in front of several tents. Next to her on the right is a ravine. In the right foreground is a picnic table...
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Halcyon Brick Works

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Description: Elevated view from opposite shoreline of Halcyon Brick Works on the shore of a river. Trees, fields and hills are in the far background.
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Eight Women Playing in a River

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Description: Eight women posed wading and playing in a river. Some of the women are sitting on a wood fence across the river.
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Group of People on Footbridge

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Description: View from shoreline towards a man and woman posed standing on a footbridge over a small waterfall. On the right a woman sits with a child in her lap on the...
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Outdoor Group Portrait of Portrait European American Men and Women

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Description: Exterior portrait next to a river of two men and three women posing sitting, and two men posing standing behind them.
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Broken Pontoon Bridge

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Description: Elevated view of a pontoon bridge at Fillmore Street in Black River Falls built by the railroad. It had broken apart and was later repaired.
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Broken Pontoon Bridge

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Description: Elevated view of the construction of a pontoon bridge at the Fillmore Street in Black River Falls built by the railroad. It had broken apart and was later ...
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Beginning of the 1911 Flood

Date: 1911
Description: Exterior view of Black River Falls at the beginning of the flood of 1911. Note the roof of the powerhouse in the water, and the Spaulding wagon shop on the...
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Copy Photograph; Log Jam

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Description: Copy photograph of a log jam on a river. A lone logger is sitting in the center.
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Railroad Bridge at Black River Falls

Date: 1880
Description: View across water towards what is identified as the second railroad bridge at Black River Falls. Note the wood trestle on the right.
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View of the Black River

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Description: Outdoor view, in stereograph form, looking up the Black River from Black River Falls. There are logs in the river in the foreground, and a bridge in the ba...
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Copy Photograph; Ice and Log Jam

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Description: Copy photograph of an ice jam on a river and a town.
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Outdoor Portrait of European American Man and Dog

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Description: Unidentified man with a moustache wearing a hat and smoking a cigar while sitting and holding a dog near a river.
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McGillivray Sash and Door Company

Date: 1913
Description: Outdoor view of a two-story wooden building, probably the McGillivray factory built about 1913 across the bridge at Water and Harrison Streets.
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McGillivray Factory

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Description: Outdoor view of a two-story wooden building, probably the McGillivray factory built about 1913 across the bridge at Water and Harrison Streets.
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Quarry Scene

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Description: View down railroad tracks towards a group of men posing standing near and on a rock face and a track, with a river on the left. Identified as probably the ...
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Quarry Laborers by the River

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Description: View across railroad tracks towards a group of men standing near and on a rock face an a cliff above a river. Identified as probably the quarry connected t...

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