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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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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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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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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

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...
Photograph

Dentist Office and Church

Date: 1900
Description: View from across street of a dentist office and Baptist Church along a road. Two horse-drawn carriages are being driven in opposite directions on the road.
Photograph

Street View Double Exposure

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Description: A double exposure of Main Street. Writing on the back of the print reads: "No good film was exposed twice."
Print

Jackson County Bank Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Jackson County Bank in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of the bank building, including groups of people and two hor...
Photograph

Falls House

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Description: Falls House, a little one-dollar-a-day hotel near the banks of the Black River at the corner of First and Fillmore Streets, built by Susan Gebhardt in 1886...
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Main Street

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Description: View down Main Street, with storefronts on both sides. A wagon loaded with straw is coming down the snow-covered street pulled by two horses. People are ga...
Photograph

Snow-Covered Road

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Description: Winter scene with a man driving a wagon pulled by a single horse down a snow-covered road past a group of people and a church, possibly the Methodist Episc...
Photograph

Parade on Main Street

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Description: View down unpaved street towards a marching band parading up Main Street during a patriotic celebration. Pedestrians watch from the sidewalks.
Photograph

Scene from McGillivray Fire

Date: 07 1912
Description: Elevated view of the fire at the McGillivray factory. Horse-drawn vehicles and onlookers are on the road in the foreground.
Photograph

Parade at the Coner of Main and First Streets

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a street scene looking north. There is a parade at the intersection of Main and First Streets.
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Funeral Procession on Main Street

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Description: View from board sidewalk of a line of wagons, including a hearse, moving down an unpaved street in town. Location identified as Main Street, and a funeral ...
Photograph

Sleigh on Main Street

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Description: View across street towards a man posing sitting in a sleigh pulled by a team of two horses on a snow-covered city street. Location identified as the north ...
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Horse and Buggy

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Description: View of a man posing sitting in a buggy pulled by a single horse on an unpaved town street. Location identified as south First Street.
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Woman Displaying Horse on First Street

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Description: Outdoor view of a woman posing standing and displaying a dark-colored horse on a snow-covered town street. Pedestrians are on a street corner in the backgr...

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