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Telephone Workers

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of men working on telephone lines from scaffolding attached to the pole in front of the telephone exchange building.
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Site of Future Bridge

Date: 1922
Description: Construction site with construction crew working, people walking on the sidewalk, and a billboard advertising Oshkosh B'gosh.
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Union High School

Date: 1890
Description: Front view of Union High School with several people and a bicycle in the foreground.
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1905
Description: Caption reads: "Main Street, Black River Falls, Wis." View up Main Street, with people walking along the sidewalks, and automobiles parked along the curb.
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Intersection of Main and First Streets

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Description: Buildings on the southwest section of Main Street at the intersection of Main and First Streets. Storefronts, from left to right, include A.F. Werner, A. M...
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Elevated View of Main Street Intersection

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Description: Elevated view of busy intersection of town, looking northeast across Main Street on First Street. Persons walking, and horses and carriages. Storefronts in...
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Intersection of First and Main Streets

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Description: Elevated view of woman walking along side street of town. In the background are horses and carriages.
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Intersection of First and Main Streets

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Description: Intersection of Main and First Streets, shows southwest section of intersection, with street lamp, storefronts, pedestrians, and carriage. Taken from Empt...
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Billboards on Water Street

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Description: Billboards with advertising for the "Georgia Up-To-Date Minstrels" at the Opera House on Saturday, April 7. Bridge visible to the left. The J.J. McGillivra...
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Intersection of Main and Water Streets

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Description: Northwest corner of Main Street and Water Street. Woman with an infant in a buggy and a boy walking on Main Street in front of stores and M. Weber Restaura...
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Bridge with Metal Framework

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Description: Bridge with metal framework and sidewalks on each side. Man walking away from the camera on the left sidewalk. Sign across the bridge, "$10. FINE FOR DRIVI...
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Hogs on Main Street

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Description: Boy herding hogs through town on Main Street, probably on the way to the stockyards near the railroad station on the east side of the Black River. Storefro...
Postcard

Water Street

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Description: Water Street showing a horse-drawn vehicle and storefronts looking toward a hill. The small building at the end of the street is the creamery. The text on ...
Photograph

First and Main Streets

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Description: Elevated view, possibly a stereograph, of the intersection of First and Main Streets, probably taken from the window of the Van Schaick studio.
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First and Main Streets

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Description: Elevated view of intersection of First and Main Streets, probably taken from the window of the Van Schaick studio.
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Three Passenger Boats Approaching Dock

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Description: View from shoreline of three steam-powered passenger boats approaching a dock with a flag on it.
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Older Ho-Chunk Woman on Bridge

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Description: View across road of an older Ho-Chunk woman, wearing a shawl over her shoulders and several necklaces, walking across a bridge on a board sidewalk. Two oth...
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Two Ho-Chunk Women Walking on Board Sidewalk

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Description: Two Ho-Chunk women walking on the board sidewalk on Main Street at the intersection of Main and Second Streets. They are both wearing shawls wrapped around...
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Martin Lein/Lien's Funeral

Date: 05 1911
Description: Panoramic view from street of Martin Lein/Lien's funeral procession, showing Main and Water Streets before the flood of 1911. The procession includes sever...
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Memorial Day Parade

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Description: Elevated panoramic view of the Memorial Day Parade, from the corner of Main and 1st Streets. Men carrying musical instruments, including a trombone, trumpe...

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