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| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | George "Uncle Riley" Thompson and his wife and children posing on their farm. The family are, from left to right: Bessie, mother Julia holding Rosie, Mamie... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Logs move down the river, swirling with cross currents, resulting in a huge log jam. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A man stands in the open doorway of a Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, & Omaha railway boxcar. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Cat, kittens, and dogs sitting on a platform near a board sidewalk. Farm buildings and several woodpiles are visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A group of loggers at work in the woods with horses and a team of oxen. The men are cutting down fir trees to eventually be sold at market. |
| 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-... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Derailed locomotive and coal car. Wreck on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railway, locomotive #287, in the vicinity of Black River Falls. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Women's Relief Corps with umbrellas parading down the street. Stuffed eagle parading as "Old Abe." Directly behind the two flags are, from left to right: ... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Grand Army of the Republic in Memorial Day Parade, in front of the Freeman House. Leading the ranks is probably James Livingston, Alvin "Bean" Hagen is pro... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Four Ho-Chunk people crossing a bridge spanning the Black River. This photograph was taken before the flood of October 1911, when the bridge was completely... |
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| Description: | A group of men, women and children walk through a field. One woman rides a bike and is steadied by the man next to her. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of intersection of First and Main Streets, probably taken from the window of the Van Schaick studio. |
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| Description: | Group sitting and standing on a stagecoach from W.T. "Bill" Price's Stage Line, operated between Sparta and Eau Claire in the latter 1850s and 1860s, possi... |
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| Description: | Bill Payne driving a herd of large hogs through town on Main Street, possibly on the way to Adam Best's Butcher's Shop. Storefronts identified, from left t... |
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| Description: | Man and woman posing sitting in a buggy pulled by a single horse. There is a large fur over their laps. They are in front of the gate of a wooden fence and... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of patriotic parade on Main Street, probably a Memorial Day Parade. Over the street, reaching from one sidewalk to the other, is an arch deco... |
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