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| Description: | View down center of railroad bridge over the Wisconsin River near Lone Rock. |
| Date: | 02 01 1912 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the toll bridge that spans the Wisconsin River. Part of the bridge is covered. Several men stand along the railing. A sign warns "... |
| Date: | 08 29 1930 |
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| Description: | Workers pose at the entrance of the old bridge. There are railroad tracks in the foreground with signs that read, "free bridge," "men working," and "cautio... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A man and a child pose on the dock of a paddle ferry boat named "Dewey." An American flag is affixed to the boat, there is a bell attached on a platform ne... |
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| Description: | A pathway through a park. There is a playground on the right, and a boy is nearby on what appears to be a shoreline. A pavilion is beyond trees on the left... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Wooden flood gate of a dam. Water pours over the gate down into a reservoir. There are signs on either post advertising the interstate fair in La Crosse on... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View down path along rough road towards a building labeled "No. 4". The De Soto Depot, railroad tracks, a boxcar, and the Mississippi River are below on th... |
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| Description: | Locomotive at the De Soto depot on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad line. The Mississippi River is on the left. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View down double set of railroad tracks with the De Soto depot on the left and the Mississippi River on the right. A car is parked at the depot, and bluffs... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A man stands on a wooden dock near a tour boat. The sign on top of the boat advertises "Summer Homesites." |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks of the Lynxville train depot on the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad line. There are bluffs on the right, and a man is walk... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the "Capitol" excursion steamer pulled up to the bank of the Mississippi. The steamer has three or four decks, and elaborately detai... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A view from shoreline below a bridge that crosses the Wisconsin River. There are two signs on the upper level of the bridge. One is for weight limit and th... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View from right rear of the "General Allen" steamer pushing a barge on the Mississippi River. Smoke is pouring out of the two funnels at the front of the s... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from Signal Point of the Mississippi River, railroad and surrounding forest and wetlands. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View from pier of a Native American man wearing a headdress kneeling on a tourist boat called "Black Hawk" docked under a bridge in the Wisconsin River. He... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View across water of the General Allen steamer pushing barges down the Mississippi River. Men are on the steamer, and two more men are standing on t... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Four people, two men and two women, stand on a pier near an excursion boat on Lake Delton. A sign with flags is on top of the boat and reads: "Lake and Riv... |
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