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Painting

Boyhood Home of Hamlin Garland

Date: 1937
Description: Boyhood home of Hamlin Garland.
Photograph

Flooded Railroad Tracks

Date: 04 22 1965
Description: A panoramic view of the Mississippi River flooding during the spring, showing the dykes built along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad tracks at Sec...
Painting

The Farm of Heinrich Cordes near Onalaska on the Black River

Date: 1859
Description: Due to rainy weather, Hölzlhuber stayed a night in the home of Heinrich Cordes, who had purchased his land from an Irishman and built "a pretty brick house...
Photograph

Potting Plants

Date: 1911
Description: Group of women from the District Agricultural School, and gardener E.E. Harris on the far right. They are standing in a row potting plants at a potting tab...
Photograph

Boys Ready for Day in the Field

Date: 1911
Description: Group of boys outdoors with gardener E.E. Harris. Original caption reads: "Boys of the Onalaska Agricultural School, with rakes and forks, saws and other i...
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of Onalaska, Wisconsin

Date: 1889
Description: This map lists township and section numbers outside municipality, housing additions and subdivisions and plat owners outside municipality, the Black River,...
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Onalaska

Date: 05 1894
Description: Sheet 1 of an Onalaska Sanborn map, which includes an index and key.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Onalaska

Date: 05 1894
Description: Sheet 2 of an Onalaska Sanborn map, including 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Streets.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Onalaska

Date: 05 1894
Description: Sheet 3 of an Onalaska Sanborn map.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Onalaska

Date: 05 1894
Description: Sheet 4 of an Onalaska Sanborn map featuring C.H. Nichols Lumber Company.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Onalaska

Date: 05 1894
Description: Sheet 5 of an Sanborn map of Onalaska featuring the Island Lumber Company.
Photograph

Celebrating Wedding Anniversary

Date: 02 14 2015
Description: Portrait of David Joseph Marcou’s parents sitting side by side and holding up cards made by their daughter Lynn celebrating their 65th anniversary.
Photograph

First Hay

Date: 1952
Description: A woman is driving a horse-drawn hay wagon pulling a hay loader on the William Houser Farm. A child and a man, each with a hay fork, are riding on the load...

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