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Filter: Community of Black River Falls
Filter: Year of 1800-1899
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men, women, and children posing standing in front of a wooden building, probably a school house and possibly the South Alma School. Secon... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of two men and three women posing sitting, in front of three men and six women posing standing in front of a painted backdrop in a photogra... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View towards front entrance of the partially constructed Senior High School. A man is walking up a board into the open doorway of the school. A horse is st... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Two images: Left side is: Man posing standing in the road in front of a wooden fence holding a derby hat. There is a house in the background. On the right ... |
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| Date: | 08 17 1892 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of large crowd of people watching elephants from the Ringling Brothers Circus turning the corner of First and Main Streets. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Posed portrait of a young couple outdoors in a field. The man is seated, the woman is standing beside him, with a wooden fence in the background. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop and prop column of seven European American women sitting on the floor. They are all leaning against one anot... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of young people in a European American family posed standing. The woman wear dres... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of an unidentified European American woman posed standing in front of a painted backdrop in the opening of a gate on a fence. S... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View across water towards what is identified as the second railroad bridge at Black River Falls. Note the wood trestle on the right. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of a European American woman posing sitting. She is wearing a dark-colored dress with puffed sleeves, and a hat with feather... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Elevated view upriver towards a railroad bridge crossing the river. Rocks are in the foreground in the middle of the river. Identified as the bridge across... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Elevated view upriver towards a bridge and dam. Two people are walking among the rocks on the lower right. Identified as the railroad bridge across the Bla... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View towards a railroad bridge across a river. Identified as the railroad bridge across the Black River after 1885. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the front of a large brick school building. Identified as the high school built in 1897 in Black River Falls. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards a large brick school building. Identified as the high school built in 1897 in Black River Falls. |
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