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Postcard

Scene on Black River

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Description: Colorized postcard view of two bridges over the Black River. A boy is standing on the riverbank in the foreground. Caption reads: "Scene on Black River."
Postcard

Flood Scene

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic postcard view of a street scene. Groups of people are gathered along the sidewalks near storefronts. A building on the left has a painted sign...
Postcard

Where City Once Stood - Business Section

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic postcard view of the devastation after a flood in central Black River Falls. Caption reads: "Where City Once Stood - Business Section."
Postcard

Black River Flood

Date: 10 05 1911
Description: Photographic postcard view of the aftermath of a flood. Crowds are gathered on the river bank, the bridge and the higher ground in the background. Caption ...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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 ...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Copy Photograph; Ice and Log Jam

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Description: Copy photograph of an ice jam on a river and a town.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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 ...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Quarry Scene

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Description: Elevated view of a group of men posing standing near and on a rock face with two sets of small railroad tracks behind them. Identified as probably the quar...

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