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| 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: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the devastation after a flood in central Black River Falls. Caption reads: "Where City Once Stood - Business Section." |
| Date: | 10 05 1911 |
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| 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 ... |
| 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: | 07 22 1907 |
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| Description: | Caption on bottom right reads: "Wash Out on H.&N.E RY. July 22, 07." View down three sets of damaged railroad tracks towards men standing near a passenger ... |
| Date: | 08 06 1935 |
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| Description: | Caption at bottom reads: "Destruction of H&N.E. RY Yards." Women in white dresses walk among the puddles along the flood-damaged tracks and trains of the H... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View across river of buildings along the river's edge. Identified as probably Melrose or Northbend, not Black River Falls. Probably from the flood of 1911. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Aftermath of a flood. Debris of railroad ties, tracks, and cars are scattered beneath a bridge. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View along steep shoreline towards people among the rubble near buildings at the top of the bank on the left. The river is on the right. Location identifie... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| 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... |
| 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... |
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