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John Gund Bottling Department

Date: 1890
Description: Brewery workers, posed in front of stacked beer barrels. Pictured (2nd row, far right) is Louis Schreiber (1861-1923) who immigrated to Wisconsin from Bava...
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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...
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Ken Garves Cutting Bill Black's Hair

Date: 2006
Description: Ken Garves cutting retired Sheriff Bill Black's Hair. A fishing net and lures line the window, facing the street.
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

La Crosse Rubber Mills Boot Advertisement

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Description: An image of a farmer in a barnyard shoveling snow wearing boots from La Crosse Rubber Mills.
Print

La Crosse Tractor Advertisement for the Model F and G Tractors

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Description: Am advertisement for the La Crosse Models F and G tractors. Color illustration depicts a man and woman watching another man driving a tractor. Includes a g...
Print

La Crosse Tractor Advertisement

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Description: Advertising foldout for the La Crosse Happy Farmer tractor. Includes a color illustration of a tractor, as well as a rear view of a man plowing with a trac...
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

La Crosse Model M Introduction

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Description: A magazine advertisement introducing the La Crosse Model M tractor. Depicts a man with a pitchfork standing near a tractor. In the background are farm buil...
Photograph

Man on Plow

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Description: Man sitting on plow driven by a tractor.
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Man Sitting on thresher behind Tractor

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Description: Man sitting behind a La Crosse tractor on a thresher.
Photograph

Printer at RC Printing

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Description: John Maas, a printer at RC Printing, poses at work.
Photograph

David A. Marcou

Date: 2008
Description: David A. Marcou, father of the photographer, and meat-cutter, stands underneath a sign in a store.
Book or Pamphlet

La Crosse Happy Farmer Tractor Pamphlet

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the La Crosse Happy Farmer kerosene tractor. The cover features an illustration of a man using the tractor in a farm ...
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

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

Hand-Painted Sayings

Date: 2013
Description: Lois Wason displaying her hand-painted saying about grandmothers, with flowers, on a board at Becker Plaza. She is wearing a light blue work shirt over a t...
Photograph

Giant Dryers at the Sip & Surf Laundromat

Date: 11 01 2013
Description: Amanda showing the photographer the giant Speed Queen dryers at the Sip & Surf Laundromat & Tanning Salon on West Avenue and Jackson Streets. She is wearin...
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Refuse Truck

Date: 2013
Description: The driver of a Harter’s Refuse truck throws a bag of trash into his truck. He is holding one trash can, and two others sit near a garage. He is wearing a ...
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Statue of Hiawatha Removal

Date: 08 11 2020
Description: A man is standing on top of a trailer loading a large statue of a Native American man attached to a crane.

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