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Bridge Under Construction

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Description: Elevated view from hill of two women, a girl, a boy, and a dog posed on a railroad bridge under construction. This is possibly over Hall's Creek, east of M...
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Mill on Robinson Creek

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Description: Woman and girl posed sitting under a fur in a carriage pulled by a single horse by a wooden bridge. Behind them is a large wooden building, possibly a mill...
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York Iron Works

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Description: View down hill of York Iron Works. On the left are charcoal kilns, and in the far background is the town.
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York Iron Works

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Description: View across river of York Iron Works. On the hill are the boardinghouse and dance hall. Just below the boardinghouse there appears to be a quarry.
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Huron Smith

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Description: Huron Smith standing next to a motorcycle with a sidecar on a highway 12 bridge in Black River Falls. A dam across the Black River Flowage can be seen in t...
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Men Posed Around Logs

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Description: Group of men and children posed in front of large piles of snow-covered logs, ready to be dumped from landings into the river after the spring thaw.
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Men Posed on top of Stacked Logs

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Description: Group of men posed atop and among stacks of logs on landing.
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Log Dam on the Black River

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Description: Seven men posed sitting and standing on a log dam a hundred yards north of a railroad bridge crossing the Black River. Remnants of each end still exist.
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Logging Camp, Black River Falls, Wisconsin

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Description: Elevated view of men posed standing in a logging camp, displaying six teams of two oxen. One man is posed seated in a buggy pulled by a single horse, and a...
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Men Sitting on Pile of Logs

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Description: View over snow-covered ground or a frozen river of a group of men sitting on piles of logs. Behind them on the right is a log sorting pier. There are two b...
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Men Posed On Logs

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Description: Elevated view of a group of men posed standing and holding logs in a river with pike hooks. There appears to be a dog on the right of the group standing on...
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Sorting Logs

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Description: View from shoreline of two men posed standing on log sorting piers half a mile above the Railroad Bridge on the Black River. There is a large log jam behin...
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Sorting Logs

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Description: Loggers near a log jam under a railroad bridge.
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Log Jam

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Description: View from shoreline of a log jam under a railroad bridge about half a mile from the Black River Falls Dam. On the opposite shoreline, men sit atop a fence....
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Logging Clean-Up Crew

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Description: Group of men and a boy posed holding logging tools and standing in front of tents on the banks of a river, probably just south of Black River Falls. A man ...
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Eating in a Tent

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Description: Group of men and one boy posed sitting on benches on either side of a long table for a meal in an open-sided tent on the banks of a river. In the backgroun...
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Construction of Bridge

Date: 1912
Description: Elevated view of a construction site of a bridge across the cutoff on the river.
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Bridge Over River

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Description: Elevated view over buildings of men and women walking across a bridge over a high river. There is a railroad bridge in the background.
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Bridge Over River

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Description: Elevated view from shoreline of high water passing under a bridge. There is a woman standing at the railing on the bridge. The town is on the far shoreline...
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Trees in Flood

Date: 1911
Description: View across water of trees and wooden buildings submerged in water, probably during the 1911 (or 1905) flood of the Black River.

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