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Relaxation on Hammocks

Date: 1898
Description: Men and women sitting in two hammocks. The people pictured are Julia Murray Ormsby, Fred Werner, and R. Effie (Ettie) Meinhold.
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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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Train Crossing a Bridge

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Description: A freight train makes its way across a bridge over a dam on the Black River.
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Black River Falls

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view of the river and town. Probably prior to 1885 because the Van Schaick building/photograph gallery is not constructed on Second Street.
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Elevated View of Town and River

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Description: Elevated view of buildings in town with river in the background.
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Woman in Rowboat

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Description: Woman standing in a rowboat near shore, testing the water with an oar.
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Powerhouse in Black River Falls

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Description: Powerhouse for the city electric utility with a tail race below, a man standing on the left of the powerhouse, and a train in the left background
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Dam near Railroad Bridge

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Description: One side of a concrete dam with a railroad bridge to the right, and houses in the background.
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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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Railroad Bridge

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Description: Black River Falls and the bridge spanning it, probably the second railroad bridge.
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Train Crossing Railroad Bridge

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Description: Freight train crossing river on a bridge north of Black River Falls.
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Men Standing on Freight Train

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Description: Men standing on top of a freight train crossing the river, and a log dam before the flood. Painted rocks in the river advertise for A.F. Werner.
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Freight Train on Bridge

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Description: Freight train on bridge over river, probably taken from the mouth of Snow Creek.
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Log Jam

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Description: Log jam floating by the first railroad bridge over the river.
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Log Jam on Icy River

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Description: Five men and a log jam on an icy river.
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Log Jam under Hatfield Wagon Bridge

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Description: Men working to break up a log jam under the Hatfield Wagon Bridge. This is the original Hatfield Bridge, destroyed when the Hatfield Dam failed in the floo...
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Log Jam under Hatfield Bridge

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Description: Men working to break up a log jam under the Hatfield Bridge. This is the original Hatfield Bridge, destroyed when the Hatfield Dam failed in the flood of 1...
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Men on Riverbank

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Description: Men working along the shore of the river, probably in connection with the rock crushing works, one-half mile south of the York Iron Company on the Black Ri...
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Railroad Bridge and Dam

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Description: G. B. & W. Railroad Bridge and the building of the Hatfield Dam.
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Men Building Dam

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Description: Men building the post-flood business district dam. The flood of 1911 went around the Black River Falls Dam and washed out most of the business section of t...

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