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Steamer Quincy at Levee

Date: 1910
Description: The sidewheel packet, Quincy, tied up at the levee. Bridge in background. Later named J.S. Caption reads: "Steamer Quincy at Levee, La...
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Main & Fifth Streets in La Crosse

Date: 1905
Description: View of pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages downtown, at the corner of Main and Fifth Street. J.A. Erhart & Sons' Drugstore are on the right side of the...
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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...
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Monroe Palmer Octagon House

Date: 1900
Description: The Monroe Palmer Octagon house, built about 1852 at Neshonoc, Wisconsin, and moved to this site in 1890.
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Timothy Burns Tablet

Date: 1939
Description: The Timothy Burns tablet in Burns Park, near Main Street. The tablet reads: "To perpetuate the record of the gift of Burns Park to La Crosse by Hon. Timoth...
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Cameron House

Date: 1908
Description: View across street toward the Cameron House. A group of people are near the entrance. Caption reads: "Cameron House, La Crosse, Wis."
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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...
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J.J. Hogan Wholesales

Date: 1900
Description: View down railroad tracks, with the Mississippi River on the left, and on the right the J.J. Hogan Wholesale Company.
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J.J. Hogan Wholesale Co.

Date: 1900
Description: J.J. Hogan Wholesale Company on the Mississippi River.
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Mississippi River Front

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view over the Mississippi River towards the waterfront in La Crosse.
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Myrick Marker

Date: 1942
Description: The Myrick Marker on the Funke Candy factory placed by the La Crosse Chapter, D.A.R. to mark the site of the first house built in La Crosse in 1842 by Nath...
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La Crosse State Teacher's College

Date: 1945
Description: La Crosse State Teacher's College.
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Panoramic View of La Crosse

Date: 1900
Description: Four-panel Panoramic view of La Crosse. Indentifiable businesses in view include: J. Hogan Wholesale Grocer, T.H. Spence Drug Co., Union Refrigerator Trans...
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Masonic Installation

Date: 09 16 1961
Description: Installation of Masonic officers at the Grand Council meeting. Assemblyman Christ Stauffer is second from the left.
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Woman's Committee Window Display

Date: 02 1918
Description: A window display by the Woman's Committee of the LaCrosse County Council of Defense showing a nurse, an injured soldier, a skeleton and American flags. The...
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Busy Scene on Main Street

Date: 1912
Description: Colorized view across street towards pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles in front of a row of shops. Caption reads: "Busy Scene on Main Street, Bangor, Wi...
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Barbara Kiechler

Date: 1931
Description: Miss Barbara Kiechler, identified as a 4-H Club worker in Coon Valley, posing on a low wall surrounding the Grotto of the Holy Family on the grounds of Vil...
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Mrs. Lou Stark

Date: 1931
Description: Mrs. Lou Stark, president of the PTA at Lower Big Creek School, poses in front of her farmhouse.
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Victory School

Date: 1931
Description: Students at Victory School, La Crosse County, pose at the side of their stone school building. All the boys are wearing neckties.
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The Coulee Region

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

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