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Photograph

Main and Water Streets

Date: 1911
Description: View of Main and Water Streets while experiencing severe flooding.
Photograph

Elevated View of Business District

Date: 1911
Description: Elevated panoramic view. Business district has a cluster of larger brick buildings at left and center, behind a sprinkling of houses. Very large building i...
Photograph

Telephone Operators Posing on Steps

Date: 1911
Description: Four telephone operators pose on the steps of the Black River Falls Exchange Office Building. The second woman from the bottom is probably Mrs. W.E. (Hagen...
Photograph

Horse Sheds for Farmers

Date: 1911
Description: Elevated view of group of people and horses in front of horse sheds for farmers after the 1911 flood, looking north, downtown on Harrison Street. In the fa...
Photograph

Black River Falls Flooding

Date: 1911
Description: A panoramic view of Black River Falls flooded streets, possibly taken during the flood of 1911. Three men are standing on the sidewalk next to the "Tollack...
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."
Photograph

Beginning of the 1911 Flood

Date: 1911
Description: Exterior view of Black River Falls at the beginning of the flood of 1911. Note the roof of the powerhouse in the water, and the Spaulding wagon shop on the...
Photograph

Dam before 1911

Date: 1911
Description: View from shoreline looking across the dam in front. Black River Falls is on the opposite shoreline, with several wooden structures, including the power ho...
Photograph

Black River near North Water Street

Date: 1911
Description: View from bridge across river towards a town along the shoreline. Location identified as showing German Hill and showing North Water Street before 1911.
Photograph

Reconstruction after the 1911 Flood

Date: 1911
Description: Outdoor view of a construction site, with wreckage in a ditch. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1911 flood in Bla...
Photograph

Reconstruction of Town Creek

Date: 1911
Description: View towards a construction site, with a railway track with a train and other machinery. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek a...
Photograph

Sand Hauler Wreckage

Date: 1911
Description: View towards a construction site, with wreckage, and men working on the right. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1...
Photograph

Reconstruction of Town Creek

Date: 1911
Description: View down wall towards a construction site. On the right arec men by a railway track with sand haulers, and a brick viaduct. Location identified as the f...
Photograph

New Building on the Corner on First and Main Streets

Date: 1911
Description: View towards a man standing on a sled behind a team of two horses on a snow-covered city street in front of a two-story brick building. Location identified...
Photograph

Reconstruction of Town Creek

Date: 1911
Description: View towards a construction site, with men working by a railway track with sand haulers, and a brick viaduct. Location identified as the fill and reconstru...
Photograph

Sand Hauler Wreckage

Date: 1911
Description: View towards a construction site, with wreckage, and men working on the wreckage. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after th...
Photograph

Flood Damage on South First Street

Date: 1911
Description: View across water towards wreckage along the shoreline below several buildings. Identified as the damage after the flood in Black River Falls in October 19...
Photograph

Reconstruction after the 1911 Flood

Date: 1911
Description: View towards a construction site, with people walking on a dirt road, and others working at the site. Location identified as the reconstruction following t...
Photograph

First and Main after the 1911 Flood

Date: 1911
Description: View towards several men on wreckage below several buildings. Identified as the damage after the flood in Black River Falls in October 1911 and showing the...

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