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| Description: | Bill Payne driving a herd of large hogs through town on Main Street, possibly on the way to Adam Best's Butcher's Shop. Storefronts identified, from left t... |
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| Description: | Dr. Eugene Krohn driving his medicine wagon. The man behind the wagon is either Rufus Jones or Warren C. Jones. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of lumber camp with loggers posing in front of a train loaded with logs. |
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| Description: | Family posing in yard of house with four horses, with two pulling a horse-drawn carriage. There are four women, two men, a young man, five young girls, and... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Families gathered outside of Werner's Drugstore on annuity pay day. A sign reads "Medicine sold here" in Ho-Chunk, German, and Norwegian. The Ho-Chunk syll... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | A boy and a man are holding up small white pine trees, while workers are planting them at Alexander Lake's nursery. In the background are horses and wagons... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A woman, possibly the daughter of C.R. Monroe, holding up an image of Black River Falls Main Street at the back of a traveling photographer's wagon. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Corner of Main and First Street. The first two buildings on the southwest corner are Abraham Meinhold's dry goods and LeClair's hardware store. Next is A.F... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men working on telephone lines from scaffolding attached to the pole in front of the telephone exchange building. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A man stands in the open doorway of a Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, & Omaha railway boxcar. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Derailed locomotive and coal car. Wreck on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railway, locomotive #287, in the vicinity of Black River Falls. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Sidney Catle, on bike, stands with his sister Sarah to his right, Harvey Richards, and twin sisters. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Black River Falls, looking southwest. |
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| Description: | Several elephants walk up a hill in a circus parade along Main Street. They are followed by a group of horses, while bystanders watch from a platform on t... |
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| Description: | A stallion with long curly mane, owned by Jack Allison. Allison, a horse dealer from Taylor County, and the horse stand in front of the Post Office on Main... |
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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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| Description: | Railroad workers posing with a handcar on railroad tracks. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | A farm family posing in front of farm buildings and farmhouse. The young daughters are wearing matching dresses. Men in the background are standing with a ... |
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| Description: | Volunteer fire fighters prepare to put out a fire on a roof. The fire company's hose cart is the vehicle with two large wheels which was attached to any av... |
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| Description: | Mrs. Charles Van Schaick, posing on horseback, is riding past the livery stable. It was unusual for women at this time to ride horseback. |
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