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| Date: | 1911 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 1911 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | 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 Black River ... |
| Date: | 04 03 1965 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 24 1912 |
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| Description: | View down street towards the dynamiting of the bridge over the Pigeon River during the flood. Caption reads: "Dynamiting the Bridge, Flood of July 24, 1912... |
| Date: | 04 17 1965 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin River overflowing into wooded areas near Highway 14 bridge. |
| Date: | 07 03 1960 |
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| Description: | Big washout through cornfield after heavy rain. In the background is a field with crops leading up to a low hill crowned with trees. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the erosion caused by the 1911 Flood in Black River Falls. Houses are hanging off the edge of the river. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of the Black River after the 1911 flood. The banks are eroded, and power lines are downed. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View of a bridge damaged by the 1911 flood. Debris is scattered in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Black River after the 1911 flood. Severely eroded banks are on the left. |
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