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| Description: | Wagon piled high with chairs, with a man standing and driving a team of two horses. A man on the sidewalk is looking back at camera. There are other wagons... |
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| Description: | View across unpaved street towards six men posing sitting, and a boy and a man posing standing on a wagon pulled by a single horse. One man is obscured sta... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A boy is standing on a snow-covered wooden sidewalk on the left, and Native American women wrapped in blankets are walking on the sidewalk on the right. Vi... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a steam tractor on Main Street with a crowd of men. A.F. Werner is located on the northeast corner of the intersection. |
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| Description: | Crowd watching a circus performance in the street, possibly centered on a gorilla named Johanna according to the banner in the background. There is an arch... |
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| Description: | View from street of the Rozmenoski Brothers Meat Market, on a side street of town, in the Adam Best Building, built in 1914. A man stands inside behind the... |
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| Description: | Men approaching a train at the railroad depot carrying farm machinery from the J.I. Case Company. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the building that housed the gallery of Van Schaick and the dental offices of Edward F. Long. Over the years, the building also ... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of signs that advertise "GEM," list "C.J. Van Schaick, Black River Falls, Wis.," and a hat. GEM may be a manufacturer of photographic equip... |
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| Description: | Men preparing a poster display for the Pickaninny Minstrel Show, possibly the Werner Brothers. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd watching elephants in a circus parade. In the foreground are power lines and telephone poles. |
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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. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View of the river and town. High water looking west. Site of the present dam, but this was the old roller dam. Building with an advertisement for Veterinar... |
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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. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Fence and sign that says, "Dusty Roads and Weary Willies are Strictly Forbidden." |
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