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Black River Falls from County Court House

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Description: Elevated view of from the County Court House. Front center is the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Left middle ground is the first Roman Catholic Church with t...
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Black River Falls from County Court House

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Description: Elevated view from top of County Court House. Front center is the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Left middle is the first Roman Catholic Church with the whit...
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Charles Van Schaick Home

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Description: Elevated view of the street and board sidewalk. Robie house located lower left; Charles Van Schaick residence with porch located in the center; Roman Catho...
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Man and Women Resting in Hammock

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Description: Two women and a man resting in a hammock that is tied between two trees.
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Woman and Kitten near Dam

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Description: A woman sits with a kitten in her lap near a dam. This dam is probably the log dam on the Black River. In the background, the boarding house for Spaulding ...
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Frame of a Ho-Chunk Lodge in Clearing

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Description: Frame of a Ho-Chunk lodge without fabric or skins on a snow-covered field. Probably a medicine lodge at Morrison Creek Bottoms. Two wagons are under a tree...
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Ho-Chunk Encampment in a Field

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Description: View from field of a Ho-Chunk encampment in a field surrounded by trees, probably a powwow and/or medicine dance site.
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Lumber Operation

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Description: View from hill of lumber operation, with stacks of timber and a sawmill in operation, probably McKenna in eastern Jackson County.
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Farm Fields

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Description: View over fences, fields and road towards several wooden buildings. A man is standing overlooking the fields with his back towards the camera.
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Farm Landscape

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Description: View across field towards men, women, and children posing with buggy, wagon, and plow in front of a frame house surrounded by a number of farm buildings in...
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Elevated View of Farm Buildings

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Description: Elevated view from hill of farmhouse, farm buildings, and fenced yards. People are posing standing near the bottom of the hill behind a fence in the center...
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Sor-Fran Church in Gudbrainldalen, Norway

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Description: Copy photograph of an elevated view of a hexagonal building, possibly a church, in a countryside with several other buildings in the landscape. Probably th...
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Camp Douglas Looking North

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Description: Exterior view identified as Camp Douglas from the south looking north. Elevated view of a town with a railroad track and an oncoming train in the center ...
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Crow Indian Encampment

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Description: Copy photograph of an outdoor view of a Crow Indian Encampment. Credited to O'Neill Photo Co.
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View from the Courthouse

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Description: Elevated view of town, with a church on the left and houses on the right. Identified as taken from the Jackson County Courthouse, with the church on the le...
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View of a Farm

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Description: Exterior portrait of wooden buildings and a windmill in the distance in front of rolling countryside taken from a road.
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View of Black River Falls from Courthouse

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Description: Elevated view of town. Identified as probably the city of Black River Falls from the Jackson County Courthouse, and looking northeast.
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View of Black River Falls Looking West from Courthouse

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Description: Elevated view of a cityscape. Identified as probably the city of Black River Falls from the Jackson County Courthouse, looking west, showing the Catholic C...
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O'Brien School

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Description: View across field towards a small wooden school house in the distance, with children on the porch, and a horse and wagon in the yard. Identified as the O'B...
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Woman and Dog in a Front Yard

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Description: View across road towards a woman sitting on the ground next to a dog in the yard of a wooden house.

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