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Electronics Class

Date: 10 30 1963
Description: Two electronics students in class studying.
Postcard

Lincoln Beachey

Date: 09 25 1912
Description: Lincoln Beachey, the best known aviator of the exhibition era, performed in Wisconsin with his Curtiss Pusher airplane on numerous occasions. This postcar...
Photograph

Old Man and Windsor Billboard

Date: 1980
Description: An elderly man is sitting in the grass by a Windsor Canadian Whiskey billboard.
Photograph

Locks on Mississippi River

Date: 1935
Description: Locks on the Mississippi River, a nine foot channel. A man is standing above the locks. Bluffs are in the background.
Postcard

La Crosse Harbor on Mississippi River

Date: 1905
Description: View from the top of a railroad car on railroad tracks along the Mississippi River shoreline. Ships are along the shoreline on the right, and railroad trac...
Photograph

Reaping Oats

Date: 1950
Description: A farmer and a young boy ride a tractor through a field reaping oats.
Postcard

Levee with Steamboats

Date: 1904
Description: Levee in harbor, with boats, horse-drawn carriages, and steamboats. Caption reads: "The Levee, La Crosse, Wis."
Photograph

Football Coach Addresses Players

Date: 1991
Description: Head coach Dan Coughlin addresses his players, the Aquinas Bluegold Varsity football team, after his team's first playoff spot was clinched at the close of...
Photograph

Gaylord Nelson Speaks at Democratic Convention

Date: 1962
Description: Nelson stands at a podium and addresses a crowd during a Democratic Convention, probably during the 1962 Senate elections. Behind Nelson are three oversize...
Photograph

Tri-State Ice Cream Co. General Manager

Date: 03 16 1936
Description: Original caption reads: "Ralph W. Page, G.M. [of] Tri-State Ice Cream Co. Taken by Madison Branch House."
Photograph

Truck Driver William J. Lankford

Date: 03 16 1936
Description: Original caption reads: "Wm. J. Lankford - safe driver Gateway City Transfer Co. Taken by Madison Branch House." Mr. Lankford was likely the winner of a sa...
Photograph

E.W. and W.L. Murphy

Date: 03 16 1936
Description: Two men sit at a large desk and look over paperwork. The original caption reads: "E.W. and W.L. Murphy [of] Gateway City Transfer Co. Inc. 'Automotive Admi...
Photograph

Masonic Installation

Date: 09 16 1961
Description: Installation of Masonic officers at the Grand Council meeting. Assemblyman Christ Stauffer is second from the left.
Photograph

Charles Kuralt

Date: 1990
Description: Charles Kuralt standing at a podium on the night he received the Pope John XXIII Award for Distinguished Service at Viterbo College.
Photograph

Gary MacDonald and Roger Grant

Date: 1990
Description: Gary MacDonald (left) and Roger Grant (right), photography professors at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, posing alongside a camera.
Book or Pamphlet

La Crosse Happy Farmers Tractor Pamphlet

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising LaCrosse Happy Farmer kerosene tractors. Includes a trade mark of a smiling man wearing a hat inside a circle surroun...
Book or Pamphlet

La Crosse Happy Farmer Tractor Pamphlet

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the La Crosse Happy Farmer kerosene tractor. The cover features an illustration of a man using the tractor in a farm ...
Photograph

State High School Basketball Tournament Teams

Date: 03 13 1956
Description: Group portrait of the Lacrosse Central Red Raiders basketball team.
Map or Atlas

La Crosse, Wisconsin's Fun Escape!

Date: 1995
Description: This map of La Crosse is a bird’s-eye-view map with relief shown pictorially. The cover lists many points of interests and activities in La Crosse. The cov...
Photograph

Lance Monte Beck and his Calliope

Date: 10 18 1978
Description: Portrait of Lance Monte Beck (Brownie) standing in front of his Calliope, a steam-powered musical instrument, which dates to 1914, near La Crosse. The circ...

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