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Photograph

The Keokuk Beside a Barge

Date: 1868
Description: The sidewheel packet, Keokuk, loaded with passengers beside a barge at a landing. The landing is filled with people and horse-drawn vehicles. The si...
Postcard

Country Club

Date: 1910
Description: View up dirt road toward club. Automobiles are parked on the left. There is a bluff in the background. Caption reads: "Country Club, La Crosse, Wis."
Postcard

Grand Dad Bluff

Date: 1901
Description: Grand Dad Bluff in La Crosse with the Crusher building which was built in 1901 and burned in 1902. Caption reads: "Grand Dad Bluff, La Crosse, Wis."
Postcard

Ebner's Coulee

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Description: Colorized view of Ebner's Coulee. Caption reads: "Ebner's Coulee, taken from Grandad Bluff, La Crosse, Wis."
Postcard

Grand Dad Bluff

Date: 1915
Description: Looking toward Grand Dad Bluff.
Photograph

Aerial View of La Crosse

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Description: Aerial view of La Crosse, with the Mississippi River in the distance.
Postcard

View of La Crosse

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of La Crosse. Caption reads: "Panorama of La Crosse, Wis. from Grand Dad's Bluff."
Photograph

"Diamond Jo" Steamboat

Date: 1875
Description: View down hill towards "Diamond Jo" steamboat docked on the shoreline of the Mississippi River while goods are being loaded onto the steamboat.
Postcard

Tributaries Leading to Mississippi River

Date: 1909
Description: Elevated view of winding tributaries leading to Mississippi River. A road passes over a bridge in the foreground. Caption reads: "A View on the Mississippi...
Photograph

Man on Plow

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Description: Man sitting on plow driven by a tractor.
Photograph

Man Sitting on thresher behind Tractor

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Description: Man sitting behind a La Crosse tractor on a thresher.
Photograph

Group of Men at La Crosse Tractors?

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Description: View across plowed field of group of employees of La Crosse Tractor? The men are wearing long jackets, neckties, gloves, and hats. In the background are fa...
Print

H.I. Bliss Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of H.I. Bliss, a real estate agent, civil engineer, and county surveyor in La Crosse, Wisconsin. On the left a group of three men are surveying ...
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of La Crosse, Wisconsin

Date: 1893
Description: This map of La Crosse shows wards 1-20, streets, railroads, the Inter State Fair Grounds, islands, and the Mississippi River. Relief is shown by hachures. ...
Map or Atlas

Zoning Map, La Crosse, Wisconsin

Date: 1940
Description: This map of La Crosse shows different types of land zoning: residence, multiple dwelling, local business, commercial, light industrial, heavy industrial, w...
Map or Atlas

Map of Mississippi River Between La Crescent, Minn. and La Crosse, Wis.

Date: 1900
Description: The map is watercolor, pencil, and ink on tracing cloth and shows plats of both cities, local streets, railroads, mills, township divisions, bridges, and p...
Photograph

The Coulee Region

Date: 1936
Description: View down hill towards valley of farming country in the “Coulee Region.”
Photograph

The Buffalo Head

Date: 04 09 1936
Description: The Buffalo Head, a 'native' stone sculpture by the Mississippi River at the junction of Flint Ledge and Indian trails in Wyalusing State Park.

The verso...

Photograph

Skiers about to Ski Down Slope

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Description: Winter scene looking down a hill towards skiers about to ski on the Capital Mississippi Alps near La Crosse, Wisconsin. La Crosse is in the background, and...
Map or Atlas

La Crosse as Seen from Cliffwood : [and] Cliffwood as Seen from La Crosse

Date: 1900
Description: This set of photocopy bird's-eye-view maps include one view looking west from the top of Wisconsin River bluffs; and a second view looking east towards La ...

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