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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A view of Main street, looking east from Fourth Street. It is interesting to note that "The Largest Whiskey House" saloon is located next door to a drug st... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of a variety of storefronts in bustling downtown. On the left side of the street is Berman's, Cremer's Jewelers, Liggett's Drugs, and Kinney's Shoes. ... |
| Date: | 09 25 1912 |
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| Description: | Lincoln Beachey, the best known aviator of the exhibition era, performed in Wisconsin with his Curtiss Pusher airplane on numerous occasions. This postcar... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of La Crosse with nine insets of residences, schools, and the Court House and Jail. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of La Crosse from the Mississippi River. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of La Crosse, with six insets including residences, a store front, The John Gund Brewing Company, and C. & J. Michel Brewing Company. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| 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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| Description: | Two Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad passenger cars parked near the Cameron House and the depot. |
| Date: | 04 22 1965 |
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| Description: | A panoramic view of the Mississippi River flooding during the spring, showing the dykes built along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad tracks at Sec... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | An elderly man is sitting in the grass by a Windsor Canadian Whiskey billboard. |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the The Triangle Diner. A large Coca-Cola sign is on top of the diner. |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Due to rainy weather, Hölzlhuber stayed a night in the home of Heinrich Cordes, who had purchased his land from an Irishman and built "a pretty brick house... |
| Date: | 04 1860 |
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| Description: | Accompanying this sketch is Hölzlhuber's description of his last foray from Milwaukee before leaving America. "Before my return to Europe, D. Brandis, the ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Main Street, looking East, Bangor, Wis." View down Main Street with multiple two-storied businesses, and a pavilion on the street in the ri... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the La Crosse County Courthouse. Caption reads: "La Crosse County Court House, La Crosse, Wis." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The Monroe Palmer Octagon house, built about 1852 at Neshonoc, Wisconsin, and moved to this site in 1890. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of river and town from a military airplane. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of La Crosse, with Onalaska in the background. The highway is U.S. Highway 53 and the State Highway 35. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of La Crosse and the Mississippi River. In the foreground is the new bridge as of 1953. |
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