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| Description: | The steamboat Canada at dock; cargo on lower deck, passengers on upper deck, and crowd waiting on the dock. The Canada was built in 1858, dis... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion J.S., loading an excursion party below dock. Horse and cart in foreground. Caption reads: "Steamer J.S. Loading Excursion P... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of La Crosse from the Mississippi River. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map over the Mississippi River of Fountain City. Paddle steamers and steamboats are on the river, and bluffs are in the background. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view drawing of the grounds of Villa Louis, the estate of the fur trading Dousman family. After the death of H. Louis Dousman's mother in 1882, ... |
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| Description: | Several men and a horse-drawn sled harvesting Mississippi River ice. Alma, Wisconsin is visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1829 |
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| Description: | Drawing of Cassville depicting a horse cart on the river's edge, with men and boats. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | "Iron Bridge across Mississippi" photographed during "The Norwegian Lutheran Synod held at Minneapolis, Minn., 1875," as described in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogu... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the brewery dwarfed by the overhead bluffs. The brewery was built by William Schmitz. George Scheibl ran the brewery from 1899 until his d... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | A painting of the new (as of 1891) bridge over the Mississippi River in La Crosse. The bridge was built by the Clinton Bridge Co. Captions read: "North sid... |
| 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: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Levee in harbor, with boats, horse-drawn carriages, and steamboats. Caption reads: "The Levee, La Crosse, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| 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... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards a docked Mississippi riverboat. Passengers are disembarking from the ship, and a large crowd is gathered on shore, with some pe... |
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| Description: | A blurred image of a man as he is walking across the unpaved street which goes down to the Mississippi River. The Bay State House and more storefronts are ... |
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| Description: | Memohead of the G. Heileman Brewing Company of La Crosse, Wisconsin, manufacturers of keg and bottled beer, with an elevated view of the brewery complex, i... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Pen and ink map on paper of Wisconsin and northern Illinois showing stagecoach routes (marked in red) that traveled between Lake Michigan and the Mississip... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Horse-powered Mississippi River Ferry. This ferry was operated between Turkey river, Iowa and Cassville, Wisconsin by Alfred Dietrich. |
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| Description: | Color postcard of an elevated view of Stonefield Village with the Mississippi River in the background and railroad tracks in the foreground. |
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