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Water Street

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Description: Water Street showing a horse-drawn vehicle and storefronts looking toward a hill. The small building at the end of the street is the creamery. The text on ...
Photograph

Black River Falls Public Library

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Description: Panoramic picture postcard of the exterior of the Black River Falls Public Library. One side of the library has a large white stone on which is carved: "Pu...
Photograph

Black River Falls Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Black River Falls Public Library. In the large, open room a woman (librarian?) is standing on the left near a librarian's desk. A larg...
Print

Jackson County Bank Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Jackson County Bank in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of the bank building, including groups of people and two hor...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Hops Farming

Date: 1880
Description: Group portrait of men and women posing in hop field. Most of the women are wearing aprons, and some of them are holding plants from the harvest. In the for...
Postcard

Greeting From Black River Falls

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Description: Photographic collage of six views of Black River Falls, featuring the Grade School, High School, Bank, Main Street, a commercial business block and the da...
Postcard

Greetings from Black River Falls, Home Coming Festival

Date: 1908
Description: Photographic postcard view of five framed images from around Black River Falls; the bridge crossing the river, Main Street, the Court House Yard and founta...
Postcard

The House by the Side of the Road — Fallhall Glen Resort

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Description: Photographic postcard view of a log resort and filling station on the side of a dirt road. Caption reads: "The House by the Side of the Road — Fallhall Gle...
Postcard

Flood Scene

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic postcard view of a street scene. Groups of people are gathered along the sidewalks near storefronts. A building on the left has a painted sign...
Postcard

Where City Once Stood - Business Section

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic postcard view of the devastation after a flood in central Black River Falls. Caption reads: "Where City Once Stood - Business Section."
Postcard

Black River Flood

Date: 10 05 1911
Description: Photographic postcard view of the aftermath of a flood. Crowds are gathered on the river bank, the bridge and the higher ground in the background. Caption ...
Postcard

Black River Flood

Date: 10 05 1911
Description: Photographic postcard view of the aftermath of a flood in a residential neighborhood. A man is picking up pieces of wood in the road. Large piles of debris...
Postcard

Indoor Bonfire — Fallhall Glen

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Description: An interior view of a room with a fire pit in the center surrounded by rocking chairs. Caption reads: "Indoor Bonfire — Fallhall Glen, Black River Falls, W...
Postcard

Trout Steam, Fallhall Glen on Trail 27

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Description: Photographic postcard view of a trout stream with rapids and trees on the shoreline. Caption reads: "Trout Steam, Fallhall Glen on Trail 27, 7 Miles South ...
Postcard

Pines and Corner of Dining Room — Fallhall Glen

Date: 1934
Description: An exterior view of a log sided building in the woods. Caption reads: "Pines and Corner of Dining Room — Fallhall Glen, Black River Falls, Wis."
Photograph

Copy Photograph; Studio Portrait of European American Woman

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Description: Copy photograph of a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unknown woman sitting and putting on a boot. She is wearing a light-colored plaid...
Photograph

Womenless Wedding

Date: 1927
Description: A womenless group wedding portrait taken in a gymnasium. The large group of men are all dressed theatrically in male and female apparel. Some of the men ar...
Photograph

Mable Lowe Weaving Baskets

Date: 1969
Description: A Ho-Chunk woman, Mable Davis (maiden name) Lowe is sitting and weaving a basket. Behind her is a dwelling (chipoteke). Several finished woven baskets are ...
Book or Pamphlet

Jackson County Fair Pamphlet

Date: 1963
Description: Pamphlet advertising the 1963 Jackson County Fair, which featured performances by country music stars Porter Wagoner, Del Woods, and Bonnie Sloan.

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