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| Description: | Four men in the foreground are posing standing with shovels in a large hole in the ground. In the background behind a wall, men are working near cars along... |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards a group of men posing standing near and on a rock face and a track, with a river on the left. Identified as probably the ... |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards a group of men standing near and on a rock face an a cliff above a river. Identified as probably the quarry connected t... |
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| Description: | Outdoor view looking down at men working on a high brick foundation on the river, with a railroad bridge in the background. Identified as the laying of the... |
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| Description: | Boy herding hogs through town on Main Street, probably on the way to the stockyards near the railroad station on the east side of the Black River. Storefro... |
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| Description: | Elevated view across a river with high water towards a bridge in the distance. |
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| Description: | Boy and man herd hogs through town on Main Street, probably on the way to the stockyards near the railroad station on the east side of the Black River. Sto... |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men and women, all wearing hats, peeking over the top of a large log along the riverbank. Other large logs are piled behind them. A railr... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of people, men, women and children, gathered in groups on a wooden bridge. A sign in the middle of the bridge reads: "$50 Fine for Cutt... |
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| Description: | View across water towards train is crossing over a bridge on the right, heading towards the opposite shoreline. |
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| Description: | View across water towards a bridge across a river. There is a town on the opposite shoreline. |
| Community: | Black River Falls |
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| County: | Jackson |
| Historic Name: | Warren & Ouachita Valley Railroad Steam Locomotive #1 |
| Reference Number: | 143598 |
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| Description: | Crowd watching a railway crane lift a boxcar from the Chicago and Northwestern Railway back on the track. |
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| Description: | Two men posing in front of a small locomotive, probably a donkey engine used to refill downtown after the flood. |
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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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| Description: | Elevated view of a pontoon bridge at Fillmore Street in Black River Falls built by the railroad. It had broken apart and was later repaired. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the construction of a pontoon bridge at the Fillmore Street in Black River Falls built by the railroad. It had broken apart and was later ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards a construction site, with men working near a railway track with sand haulers. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek... |
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| Description: | View towards men standing by a line of sand haulers on a railway. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1911 flood in ... |
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