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Filter: Creator Name of Van Schaick, Charles
Filter: Year of 1800-1899
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Logs move down the river, swirling with cross currents, resulting in a huge log jam. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the river and town. Probably prior to 1885 because the Van Schaick building/photograph gallery is not constructed on Second Street. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Log jam on a high-water river, probably the Ice Gorge of 1876. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Town with logs overflowing the river into yards, probably the Ice Gorge of 1876. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Town and business district, showing the early covered bridge across from the tail race of the powerhouse, with logs overflowing the river into yards, proba... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Logs piled on the shore of town, possibly due to Ice Gorge of 1876. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Three men and a dog are standing on thick chunks of ice looking over logs on an icy river. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Three men and a dog standing on ice floes and looking over logs on an icy river. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View across water towards what is identified as the second railroad bridge at Black River Falls. Note the wood trestle on the right. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Elevated view upriver towards a railroad bridge crossing the river. Rocks are in the foreground in the middle of the river. Identified as the bridge across... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Elevated view upriver towards a bridge and dam. Two people are walking among the rocks on the lower right. Identified as the railroad bridge across the Bla... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View towards a railroad bridge across a river. Identified as the railroad bridge across the Black River after 1885. |
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