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Girl By Stream

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Description: Girl wearing dress, with hat in hand, standing next to a stream. She is shown from the back, looking downstream and waving.
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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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View looking east from Court House

Date: 1890
Description: Elevated view of downtown Black River Falls.
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Man Hewing Logs

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Description: A seated man hews logs in front of a barn. In the background, a rolling landscape is visible.
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Group on Rock Formation

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Description: Three women and a man pose at the top of a rock formation overlooking the flat fields and forest below. The three women are sitting while the man stands w...
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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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Woman Looking Across River

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Description: A portrait of a woman holding an umbrella looking out from a low hill over a landscape towards a river. A settlement can be seen on the other side of the r...
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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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Boys in a Field with a Dog and Cat

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Description: Two European American or Ho-Chunk boys wearing hats are posing standing in a field with a dog and cat. On the far horizon are trees and low hills.
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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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Construction of Railroad

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Description: Group of men at the construction of a railroad branch line among piles of stones. Railroad ties placed on the ground are visible on the platform in the bac...
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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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View of Town

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Description: Landscape view of town taken from across the river.
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View Over River

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Description: Elevated view of a river, with exposed rock bluffs along the shoreline on the right.
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Men and Women Examining Debris

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Description: Men and women examining debris in a field, possibly caused by a tornado. A tree is on top of an automobile in the center. In the far distance are fields an...
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Halcyon Brick Works

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Description: Elevated view from opposite shoreline of Halcyon Brick Works on the shore of a river. Trees, fields and hills are in the far background.

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