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Reconstruction after the 1911 Flood

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Description: View of a construction site, with a ditch in the foreground. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1911 flood in Black...
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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...
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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...
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Reconstruction of Town Creek

Date: 1911
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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Steam Shovel Cutting German Hill

Date: 1911
Description: View towards a steam shovel working on a hill by a railway and water tank. Location identified as the cutting down of German Hill for fill to reconstruct t...
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Reconstruction after the 1911 Flood

Date: 1911
Description: View towards men standing among several large rocks, and a road made with logs. Identified as the lying of logs on the sand bar after the flood of Black Ri...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 th...
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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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Construction of the New Channel

Date: 1911
Description: Elevated view of a construction site, with wreckage behind a wooden wall. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1911 f...
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1911 Flood

Date: 10 1911
Description: View towards river with high water flooding over several buildings behind a group of people in the foreground. Identified as the flood of the Black River i...
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Sand Haulers at Town Creek

Date: 
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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Wreck of the Sand Hauler during Reconstruction of Town Creek

Date: 
Description: View of wreckage in a ditch. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1911 flood in Black River Falls, and the wreck of t...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 144

Date: 
Description: A house laced straight into the wiry sore of righteousness,
squared off and lonely,
tingling at the sound of ice,
the libertine who drowned.
Photograph

Flooded Land

Date: 04 03 1965
Description: From back of Pairing, "Flooded land partly covered by ice at Knapp's Creek (at junction with the Wisconsin River near Boscobel), Wis. View looking toward t...
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Wisconsin River Overflow

Date: 04 17 1965
Description: Wisconsin River overflowing into wooded areas near Highway 14 bridge.
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Black River Falls; High Water in Grove

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Description: Elevated view of Black River Falls during a time of high water.

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