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| Description: | Elevated view of a flood scene showing East State Street with people on a wooden makeshift raft investigating. They are floating past stores and markets. I... |
| Date: | 04 1965 |
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| Description: | A man and another person are in a rowboat in the flooded waters under the entrance to the covered bridge in Stonefield Village, which is a Wisconsin Histor... |
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| Description: | A river has overflown its banks and is flooding a road on a bridge. Some men are on the bridge are using sticks to move ice floes. Crowds of people are wa... |
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| Description: | View down unpaved street towards flooded area in the distance. On the street is a girl walking towards the water, and on the left is a group of people near... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of buildings, a railroad bridge, and in the foreground people standing on what may be a dam over the river. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards a construction site, with people walking on a dirt road, and others working at the site. Location identified as the reconstruction following t... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of a street scene. Groups of people are gathered along the sidewalks near storefronts. A building on the left has a painted sign... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View along steep shoreline towards people among the rubble near buildings at the top of the bank on the left. The river is on the right. Location identifie... |
| Date: | 10 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards river with high water flooding over several buildings behind a group of people in the foreground. Identified as the flood of the Black River i... |
| Date: | 07 23 1912 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Below the High Bridge After the Flood. Wausau, Wisconsin." Railroad cars were swept away when dams at Brokaw and Merrill failed on th... |
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| Description: | View of a construction site, with a ditch in the foreground. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1911 flood in Black... |
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