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Fish Hatchery

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of the fish hatchery.
Postcard

Grand Dad Bluff

Date: 1915
Description: Looking toward Grand Dad Bluff.
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."
Map or Atlas

Village of North La Crosse

Date: 1800
Description: This map of North La Crosse is ink and pencil on paper and shows lot ownership and buildings.
Photograph

Mapleleaf Parade

Date: 10 2013
Description: University of Wisconsin-La Crosse international students on parade with their national flags during the Mapleleaf Parade on 2nd Street, an Oktoberfest even...
Photograph

Wheel Chair Lift

Date: 2013
Description: Crystal (Courtney) is assisted by a lift for her wheelchair into a van at Becker Plaza. The lift operator is wearing a Green Bay Packers sweatshirt. Buildi...
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Couple in Wheelchairs

Date: 2013
Description: A married couple, Carrie and Prentice Vaughn, riding together into the distance in their wheelchairs on the sidewalk on 7th Street. On the right is a large...
Photograph

Texting

Date: 2012
Description: Trixie, a young woman texting while standing on the sidewalk on 7th Street. She is wearing eyeglasses, a houndstooth patterned coat with jeans, and sheepsk...
Photograph

Blind Man with White Cane

Date: 2013
Description: A blind man with a white cane waits on the corner of 7th & Cass Streets. He is wearing jeans, a denim jacket, blaze orange hat and boots. Snow is piled on ...
Photograph

Neighbor in the Snow

Date: 2012
Description: Beth, a neighbor of the photographer, smoking during a snowstorm on 7th Street. She is wearing a brown sweater with a shawl collar, an unzipped red coat, a...
Photograph

Workmen and the Cathedral of St. Joseph the Workman

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Description: View down street towards men at work on a boarded-up building on a street corner. A city bus enters the street on the left. In the background is the Cathed...
Photograph

Sean Murphy

Date: 2012
Description: Sean Murphy, a professional skateboarder and snowboarder, poses on the sidewalk with his skateboard. He is gazing to the left while holding his baseball ca...
Photograph

Dog and Owner in Car

Date: 2013
Description: Bob Monk sits behind the wheel of his car, holding his fluffy dog in his lap, in the Kwik Trip parking lot. The dog has its paws on the edge of the car doo...
Map or Atlas

Map Showing Plat of La Crosse Heights : Including Grand Father Bluff & Surrounding Lands

Date: 10 1891
Description: This blueprint map shows land ownership and buildings. Text below the title reads: "The La Crosse Heights include the ridge of land with the spurs projecti...
Postcard

Fourth St. Looking South

Date: 1916
Description: View down street towards the central business district, with the city hall in the left foreground. Automobiles are parked along the curbs. Caption reads: "...
Postcard

Y.M.C.A.

Date: 1910
Description: View across street towards the Y.M.C.A. building. Caption reads: "Y.M.C.A., La Crosse, Wis."
Postcard

View from Court House

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Description: Elevated view from the Court House of central La Crosse. The depot is in the foreground, and a Carriage and Buggy manufacturer is in the background. Captio...
Postcard

La Crosse County Jail

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Description: Hand-colored view of the county jail. Caption reads: "La Crosse County Jail, La Crosse, Wis."
Postcard

River Park

Date: 1914
Description: View across Mississippi River towards a riverside park. Buildings are along the right behind the park. Caption reads: "River Park, La Crosse, Wis."
Postcard

Public Bath

Date: 
Description: A bathing beach on an island near a bridge, with people in the water and on the beach within an enclosed area. A canoe and rowboat are pulled up on the sho...

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