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Relaxation on Hammocks

Date: 1898
Description: Men and women sitting in two hammocks. The people pictured are Julia Murray Ormsby, Fred Werner, and R. Effie (Ettie) Meinhold.
Map or Atlas

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

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

Girl By Stream

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Description: Girl wearing dress, with hat in hand, standing next to a stream. She is shown from the back, looking downstream and waving.
Photograph

Train Crossing a Bridge

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Description: A freight train makes its way across a bridge over a dam on the Black River.
Photograph

Young Woman in Rowboat with Flowers

Date: 1900
Description: One of Gerhard Gesell's daughters (Wilma or Bertha) sitting in a rowboat holding a bouquet of Mississippi River water lilies. She is seated in the stern, t...
Photograph

Black River Falls

Date: 1885
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.
Photograph

Elevated View of Town and River

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Description: Elevated view of buildings in town with river in the background.
Photograph

Woman in Rowboat

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Description: Woman standing in a rowboat near shore, testing the water with an oar.
Photograph

Old Bridge over Black River

Date: 1920
Description: View of old bridge, river and buildings in downtown Black Falls River in the winter.
Photograph

Bridge over the Black River

Date: 1923
Description: Elevated view of a bridge over the Black River during construction. It was built during 1923 and 1924 by the Wausau Iron Works. Tom Cleary was the Resident...
Photograph

Main and Water Streets

Date: 1911
Description: View of Main and Water Streets while experiencing severe flooding.
Postcard

Bird's-eye View from the Court House

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view from the Court House. Hills are in the distance. Caption reads: "Bird's-eye View from Court House, showing Main Street and Black River, Black...
Photograph

Log Jam

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Description: Log jam, perhaps on the Black River or the Chippewa River in the Black River Falls area.
Photograph

Hull Mill

Date: 1880
Description: View across water towards the Hull mill (right), showing Merlin Hull's ancestral home at left.
Photograph

Black River Falls

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Description: Black River Falls.
Photograph

Powerhouse in Black River Falls

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Description: Powerhouse for the city electric utility with a tail race below, a man standing on the left of the powerhouse, and a train in the left background
Photograph

Dam near Railroad Bridge

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Description: One side of a concrete dam with a railroad bridge to the right, and houses in the background.
Photograph

Billboards on Water Street

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Description: Billboards with advertising for the "Georgia Up-To-Date Minstrels" at the Opera House on Saturday, April 7. Bridge visible to the left. The J.J. McGillivra...
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Dam Construction Behind Railroad Bridge

Date: 1907
Description: Construction of a dam visible from behind a railroad bridge. A train is crossing the bridge.
Photograph

Railroad Bridge

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Description: Black River Falls and the bridge spanning it, probably the second railroad bridge.

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