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La Crosse Riverfront

Date: 1910
Description: Caption reads: "Riverfront from Pettibone Park, La Crosse, Wis." There are three steamboats docked on the right in the harbor. A mother and her children ar...
Postcard

Old Boat Yards

Date: 
Description: Old boat yards, with numerous steamboats, and buildings on the shoreline. Caption reads: "Old Boat Yards, La Crosse, Wis."
Postcard

Steamboats in La Crosse Harbor

Date: 1903
Description: Several steamboats in the harbor, with J.J. Hogan Wholesale Grocery store and other buildings along the shoreline. Caption reads: "Steamboats in La Crosse ...
Photograph

Couple on Riverfront

Date: 1998
Description: A couple walking along the riverfront in winter, with a bridge across the Mississippi in the background.
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

Governor Jim Doyle

Date: 06 2003
Description: Governor James "Jim" Doyle throws out the ceremonial first pitch at the first game for the new La Crosse Loggers' franchise, at Copeland Field.
Photograph

President George W. Bush

Date: 05 07 2004
Description: President George W. Bush greets a crowd during a campaign stop in La Crosse at Copeland Field.
Photograph

Madison Jaycettes Aid Cerebral Palsy Fund

Date: 05 26 1948
Description: Mrs. Marvin V. Bump, Junior Chamber of Commerce state cerebral palsy drive chairman, accepts a $2,000 check from Anna Cary, Dane County drive chairman. Lef...
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

8-Can Milk Cooler

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

Waiting for Santa Claus

Date: 12 24 1958
Description: Child sleeping in front of the fireplace, waiting for Santa Claus to arrive.
Photograph

The Bishop's House

Date: 
Description: Stereograph. The house stands back from a dirt road behind a fence and yard.
Photograph

Old Style Six Pack

Date: 1977
Description: Tanks at the Heileman Brewing Company decorated to look like a six-pack of beer cans.
Manuscript

La Crosse Carriage Co. Letterhead

Date: 1887
Description: Letterhead of the La Crosse Wallis Carriage Co., manufacturers of fine family carriages, showing a view of the factory with the Mississippi River in the ba...
Photograph

Garland at West Salem Family Home

Date: 
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...
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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...
Document

La Crosse City Hall on Letterhead

Date: 1900
Description: Letterhead stationery of Wendell Anderson, the mayor of La Crosse, with an engraving of city hall.
Document

La Crosse National Bank Letterhead

Date: 1889
Description: Letterhead stationery of the La Crosse National Bank, with an engraved image of the bank building at the top.
Photograph

Yi Jianlian Before Bucks Exhibition Game

Date: 2007
Description: Milwaukee Bucks center Yi Jianlian stretching before his first NBA exhibition game.
Photograph

Dusk on 6th Street

Date: 2006
Description: Scene of 6th Street at dusk. WKBT-TV's satellite dishes visible on right.

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