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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

La Crosse Railroad Bridge

Date: 1880
Description: Construction of a railroad bridge on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad line. A set of railroad tracks is in the foreground, running along the s...
Print

Interior of Bonded Warehouse

Date: 1877
Description: Etching of interior of bonded warehouse with four men present, two conversing and two rolling barrels.
Photograph

Tommy Thompson

Date: 2005
Description: Tommy Thompson, Secretary of Health & Human Services (2001-2005) being interviewed while on a visit to La Crosse.
Photograph

Garland at West Salem Family Home

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Description: Informal portrait of writer Hamlin Garland at his family home in West Salem. The woman with him has been tentatively identified as his daughter, Mary Isabe...
Photograph

Jessa's Last Co-Op Workday

Date: 2006
Description: Portrait of a woman, Jessa, with a red and black tattoo on her arm, posing in front of a white wall. Taken during her last day working at a La Crosse food ...
Photograph

Elie Wiesel

Date: 09 2006
Description: Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author, takes a break during a long day of presentations at Viterbo University.
Photograph

Elie Wiesel Sitting at a Table

Date: 09 2006
Description: Portrait of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author, speaking at Viterbo University.
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...
Book or Pamphlet

La Crosse Light Draft Implement Catalog Cover

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Description: The front cover of a La Crosse Light Draft Implement catalog from the La Crosse Plow Company. Features an illustration a man plowing a field behind two hor...
Print

Advertisement for La Crosse Happy Farmer Model A and B Tractor

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Description: Advertisement for La Crosse Happy Farmer Model A and B tractors. Depicts a man plowing in a field with a tractor.
Print

The La Crosse Tractor Advertisement

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Description: The La Crosse Tractor Advertisement with schematic. A photograph at the top shows men with tractors and wagons advertising the "Kansas City Tractor Show." ...
Print

La Crosse Tractor Advertisement

Date: 
Description: La Crosse Tractor Advertisement with multiple inserts.
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

Danielle Trussoni

Date: 2010
Description: Danielle Trussoni signs "Angelology" for Dave and Rose Marcou, the photographer's parents, at La Crosse Central High School.
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.

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