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Bridge Over Mississippi River

Date: 09 1939
Description: View from shoreline towards the bridge over the Mississippi River in La Crosse.
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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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La Crosse Rubber Mills

Date: 1936
Description: The La Crosse Rubber mills.
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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.
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8-Can Milk Cooler

Date: 11 11 1936
Description: H.W. Griswold stands beside a McCormick-Deering 8-can milk cooler.
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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."
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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...
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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...
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Class Portrait

Date: 1939
Description: Indoor class portrait of twenty-four young students.
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Students at Lincoln School

Date: 1939
Description: A view of young students at Lincoln School sitting around tables and drinking milk out of glass bottles. Behind the students in the background a fireplace ...
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Young Students at Lincoln School

Date: 1939
Description: A view of young students at Lincoln School clustered around a long table and drinking milk out of glass bottles. In the background two art easels and plant...
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Farm Scene

Date: 1938
Description: A view of a farm in the "Coulee Country" near La Crosse during the spring. There is a long ditch in the foreground.
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Street Scene

Date: 1936
Description: View down a street filled with automobiles and pedestrians, with buildings lining each side.
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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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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.

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Two Zephyrs

Date: 1935
Description: Two streamlined style, stainless steel clad passenger trains meet on the tracks at the base of a bluff along the Mississippi River near La Crosse. A sign ...
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Duck Hunter

Date: 1939
Description: A man wearing waders and smoking a pipe, is sitting and holding several ducks on his lap, and has his shotgun resting on his right leg. His left hand is re...

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