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Bird's-Eye View of Black River Falls, Jackson County

Date: 1875
Description: Bird's-eye map of Black River Falls, looking southwest.
Photograph

High School and Grade School

Date: 1900
Description: View of the high school, (left) and grade school. The older building on the right originally held both high school and elementary school classes, but was c...
Photograph

York Log School House

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Description: The York log school house was built in 1843. It was later used on the Pelty farm as a workshop.
Photograph

York Log School

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Description: The York log school house was built in 1843. It was later used on the Pelty farm as a workshop.
Photograph

Log School House in York

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Description: The York log school house was built in 1843. It was later used on the Pelty farm as a workshop. There is a bell on the roof.
Photograph

Group Standing Near High School

Date: 1897
Description: View across yard towards the old High School Building, with two unidentified women posing standing in the doorway arch, and an unidentified man standing on...
Photograph

Senior High School

Date: 1897
Description: Workers pose on scaffolding in front of the Senior High School during construction. A child and a man with a bicycle are on the lower left side underneath ...
Photograph

Union High School

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Description: Union High School, constructed in 1871. It later probably became a grade school.
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Union High School

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Description: Union High School, constructed in 1871. It later probably became a grade school. Men, perhaps workmen, are sitting in the second and third floor windows, a...
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Union High School

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Description: Union High School, constructed in 1871. It later probably became a grade school. A man, woman and three children are posed sitting and standing on the step...
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High School

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Description: High school constructed in 1897, surrounded by snow-covered ground and a man posed standing by the entrance.
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Schoolhouse

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Description: Schoolhouse, probably the Waldrich/Waldrick School.
Photograph

Group of People in front of Halcyon School

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Description: Group portrait of a female schoolteacher and two young women posing standing, and four girls and a boy posing sitting in front of a small schoolhouse, prob...
Postcard

Greeting From Black River Falls

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Description: Photographic collage of six views of Black River Falls, featuring the Grade School, High School, Bank, Main Street, a commercial business block and the da...
Photograph

Building with a Bell Tower

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Description: View across snow-covered ground towards a school or church building with a bell tower.
Photograph

Fourth and Harrison Streets, Looking North

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Description: Elevated view of town. The location identified as the intersection of Fourth and Harrison Street looking north, and building identified as the Methodist Ch...
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Winter Street Scene

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Description: View down snow-covered path towards a woman pushing a child in a sleigh buggy. Location identified as probably looking from Third Street past the 1897 scho...
Photograph

Union High School

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Description: View across lawn towards a large brick building. Identified as the Union High School built in 1871 in Black River Falls. The is the right image of a split ...
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Schools in Black River Falls

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Description: View across lawn of two large brick buildings. There are patches of snow on the ground. Identified as schools in Black River Falls, with the building on th...
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Black River Falls High School

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Description: View across road towards a large brick building with patches of snow on the ground. Identified as the high school built in Black River Falls in 1897. Negat...

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