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| Date: | 05 19 1933 |
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| Description: | View of Langdon Street during flood from rain. A man is standing ankle deep in water. |
| Date: | 03 16 1919 |
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| Description: | View showing the flood conditions on city streets from the 1919 Flood on the Trempealeau River. Four men are surveying the damage. Caption reads: "Highwate... |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Children in swimming suits playing in a miniature lake created by heavy rains in the area of Fox and Prospect Avenues. |
| Date: | 07 20 1948 |
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| Description: | Flooded South Park Street underpass, with car stalled in three feet of water. A train is on the railroad bridge above. A young boy and girl wearing bathing... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 28 1948 |
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| Description: | View up hill of cars driving in the flooded street of the downtown area. The downtown had also flooded in 1923 and 1937. The Pecatonica River rose rapidly ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 05 1911 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Pecatonica River at the bridge. The river is flooding the town. Caption reads: "Pecatonica River on a Rampage, Darlington, , Wis." |
| 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: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View along eroded shoreline of the damage from the 1911 flood of the Black River. A city street had been washed away. Three men are looking at the river. |
| Date: | 10 01 1964 |
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| Description: | The American Radio Relay League sponsors a communications and rescue drill based on a simulated flood near Verona. 30 workers and 35 mobile communications ... |
| Date: | 04 29 1979 |
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| Description: | A man is walking through a flooded Dairy Queen parking lot in the downtown area, while cars are driving down the street. The sign in the window of the Dair... |
| Date: | 05 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Children frolicking in rain water which collected in the Milwaukee Railroad underpass on North Park Street during Tuesday afternoon's heavy downpour. There... |
| Date: | 10 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Two workmen in coveralls are laying hose to pump water from a flooded pit where the Pioneer Building was demolished at Main Street and Monona Avenue. On th... |
| Date: | 01 19 1959 |
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| Description: | Traffic on a street with cars raising spray from a puddle. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A GMC truck and an automobile are splashing through a large puddle in a small town. The town's water tower is in the background. |
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