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| Description: | View along shoreline of the sternwheel excursion, J.S., getting ready to leave for Winona. A crowd is watching from the landing. A crane on the fron... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | The harbor, showing the sidewheel packet, "Belle of La Crosse," and the sidewheel ferry "Alex McGregor." Other boats are also seen including two barges loa... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | The sidewheel packet, Keokuk, loaded with passengers beside a barge at a landing. The landing is filled with people and horse-drawn vehicles. The si... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Riverboats tied at the levee in La Crosse with the Gypsy in the foreground. Caption reads: "The Levee, La Crosse, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The sidewheel packet, Quincy, tied up at the levee. Bridge in background. Later named J.S. Caption reads: "Steamer Quincy at Levee, La... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of La Crosse and the Mississippi River with the bridge drawn in to show what the finished product would look like. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the bridge spanning the Mississippi River in La Crosse. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the John Gund Brewing Company buildings, with the Mississippi River in the background. Caption reads: "John Gund Brewing Co., La Crosse, W... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the brewery with the Mississippi River in the background. Caption reads: "G. Heileman Brewing Co., La Crosse, Wis." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across water toward the Mississippi River front showing Listman's Mills. Caption reads: "River Front and Listman's Mills, La Crosse, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks, with the Mississippi River on the left, and on the right the J.J. Hogan Wholesale Company. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over the Mississippi River towards the waterfront in La Crosse. |
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| Description: | Aerial view of La Crosse, with the Mississippi River in the distance. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of La Crosse. Caption reads: "Panorama of La Crosse, Wis. from Grand Dad's Bluff." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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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| Description: | Elevated view of lumber raft on the Upper Mississippi River with shoreline in the background. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards "Diamond Jo" steamboat docked on the shoreline of the Mississippi River while goods are being loaded onto the steamboat. |
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