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Filter: Community of Black River Falls
Filter: Creator Name of Van Schaick, Charles
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Main Street and the surrounding buildings. |
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| Description: | Winter scene with short-horned cattle on snow-covered Main Street, Black River Falls, Wisconsin. |
| 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: | Men with workhorses hitched to a sleigh, possibly a Spaulding Oscillating Sleigh. |
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| Description: | Man posing with a draft horse, probably a Clydesdale, in front of the Merchants Inn. There were many draft stallions, English Shire, Clydesdale, Norman Per... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with six women, six children, and a man examining a bobsled hitched to a horse. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A man stands on a sled pulled by a team of two horses that is carrying logs on a snow-covered road. Moving away from the log-carrying sled is an empty egg-... |
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| Description: | A woman and dog sit in an egg-shell cutter that is hitched to a horse while two men stand to the side. |
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| Description: | A horse pulls a bearded man that is seated in a cutter through the woods. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a man and woman sitting in a cutter sleigh pulled by a two-horse team, possibly driven by Harvey Risliands. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Using a portable, 4 x 5 glass plate negative camera, Van Schaick photographed Ho-Chunk on the streets of Black River Falls. These occasional pictures offer... |
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| Description: | A Ho-Chunk man and woman posing standing in front of a Ho-Chunk winter lodge. The man is reportedly blind. In the background there is a horse and snow on t... |
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| Description: | Ho-Chunk winter lodges among trees, probably a Ho-Chunk encampment at the cranberry marsh. There are large, cut logs in between two lodges. A small Ho-Chun... |
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| Description: | Group of men posed standing in a snow-covered logging camp. In the background a man stands with an ox, and another man displays a team of two horses. |
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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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| Description: | Winter scene down the middle of a road with two boys standing in the snow. The road is lined by trees laden with ice. |
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| Description: | View of a man on the far left displaying two horses in the snowy yard in front of a barn/stable. Two men in the background on the right are standing with a... |
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| Description: | Man posing while tending cows in a pasture in front of a barn. In the background is a fence, farm buildings, and farmhouse. Snow is on the ground. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of cows in a snow covered yard in front of a barn. There is a wagon and a large haystack on the left. A forested hill is in the ba... |
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| Description: | View across deep snow towards a man sawing logs next to a log cabin. In the background is a fence, and beyond across a field are more farm buildings and a ... |
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