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| Description: | Crowd of people lined up along board sidewalk watching a parade on diagonal part of Main Street. The boardwalk on the other side of the street is elevated.... |
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| Description: | View across unpaved street towards horses and buggies in a parade, with a crowd of people walking on the sidewalk in front of patriotically decorated store... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of buggies following marchers in parade though town, making a right turn from Water Street to Main Street and heading west. In the b... |
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| Description: | Wagon pulling "Kangaroo Court" through town, probably a promotion for local amateur theatricals. The man on the left is Earl "Dusty" Rhodes, a steam engine... |
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| Description: | Parade of people walking down board sidewalk in town in front of Jones & Marsh Dry Goods. |
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| Description: | Building along a street in town. Sign on one building advertises the Sparta Fair, August 24 to 27, 1897. Man and woman in horse-drawn wagon. |
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| Description: | Water Street showing a horse-drawn vehicle and storefronts looking toward a hill. The small building at the end of the street is the creamery. The text on ... |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of group of men and boys fishing from rocks under a bridge, while others watch from above. Houses are in the far background on a hill.... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A man papers a barn with posters for the "Black River Falls Fair, September 7, 8, 9 & 10." |
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| Description: | Men play horseshoes on the unpaved street outside of the Merchants Inn. |
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| Description: | The General Store Co. building and snow-covered streets of Black River Falls. |
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| Description: | An American Water Spaniel, poses in the Van Schaick photography studio in front of a painted backdrop. There is a sign for "C.J. Van Schaick Photographer."... |
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| Description: | A group of three men, six women, and a child gathered in the doorway of a building. Another building in the background has "Jackson Co. W.C.T.U." written o... |
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| Description: | View from street of remaining storefronts of two damaged buildings. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a European American man with a beard and moustache sitting in a sleigh pulled by a single horse on snow-covered ground in front of the C.... |
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| Description: | Two Ho-Chunk women walking on the board sidewalk on Main Street at the intersection of Main and Second Streets. They are both wearing shawls wrapped around... |
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| Description: | Panoramic picture postcard of the exterior of the Black River Falls Public Library. One side of the library has a large white stone on which is carved: "Pu... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Jim Swallow (MaPaZoeRayKeKah) and Pinkey Bigsolder (HoWaWinKah), as well as an unidentified child, crossing at the corner of Main and South First Street. J... |
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| Description: | A Ho-Chunk man wearing a cap and wrapped in a shawl is walking near the front of the Werner Drugstore on Main Street between Water and First Streets. There... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of Ho-Chunk gathering in front of Werner Drugstore on Main Street. The signpost on the right side indicates that English was not the first language... |
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