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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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Jessa's Last Co-Op Workday

Date: 2006
Description: Portrait of a woman, Jessa, with a red and black tattoo on her arm, posing in front of a white wall. Taken during her last day working at a La Crosse food ...
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Beauty Salon Triptych

Date: 2012
Description: Beauty salon triptych in the window of the Sampson Building at the intersection of La Crosse & 4th Streets.
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Merle Haggard

Date: 07 20 2013
Description: Merle Haggard on guitar at the Southside Oktoberfest Grounds. He is wearing a hat and sunglasses. Another guitarist is on the left.
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I Miss My Cat

Date: 2013
Description: Graffiti on a stone plinth reads “I miss my cat” below a stenciled image of a cat wearing sunglasses on 5th Street. Above, another partial sign reads "Repa...
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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...
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Merle Haggard

Date: 07 20 2013
Description: Merle Haggard posing in front of his Super Chief Santa Fe motor coach at the Southside Oktoberfest Grounds. He has his sunglasses hooked in the collar of h...
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Historic Hollywood Theater Marquee

Date: 07 2015
Description: View of the marquee of the Hollywood Theater. On the left side it reads: "To help 784 3456 or visit hollywood theater lax.com," and on the right side it re...
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Hollywood Theatre Marquee

Date: 2014
Description: View from across street of the Hollywood Theatre and marquee. Various messages read: "Vote On Face Book," "Coming Soon" and "Wish Calliesimo A Happy 60th B...
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Standing Rock Note Written in Chalk

Date: 11 2016
Description: View of a message written in chalk on a sidewalk at Riverside Park. It reads: "Standing Rock is Protecting Us [image of a heart] They need our support." Th...
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Time Is Precious

Date: 2013
Description: The hostess at a Perkins Restaurant smiling for a candid portrait. She has a “Time Is Precious” tattoo below her left collarbone, and is wearing a scoop-ne...
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Election Worker

Date: 10 2012
Description: Mrs. Curt Reithel, a La Crosse County Democratic Headquarters worker, on the phone during the 2012 Election run-up. She is seated at a desk. A brick wall i...
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Henna Artist Ishrat

Date: 2016
Description: A young Indian woman, Ishrat, is sitting in a lawn chair in her booth at a fair. She is wearing a traditional Punjabi outfit (the salwar kameez) and is off...
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Grandma's Favorite Recipes

Date: 2012
Description: Sign mounted on a painted brick wall next to a doorway in a downtown alley. Features a head and shoulders caricature of a woman wearing glasses perched on ...
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Band at Oktoberfest

Date: 07 20 2013
Description: Country/folk/rock band playing and singing, prior to the Merle Haggard and the Strangers performance at the Southside Oktoberfest Grounds. They are wearing...
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Giant American Flag at Camp Randall Stadium

Date: 08 31 2013
Description: A giant American flag is spread across the field by marchers as the marching band plays, before Gary Andersen’s first football game as UW-Madison head coac...
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Cardinal Raymond Burke

Date: 12 2010
Description: The Cardinal Raymond Burke, then head of the Vatican Supreme Court, posing for a portrait in Bishop’s Vestry, Saint Joseph the Workman Cathedral. He is wea...
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Mapleleaf Parade

Date: 09 2013
Description: Oktoberfest frolickers on parade during the Mapleleaf Parade on 2nd Street. Carie Ann (Schlichenmeyer) Finch and man in the foreground are wearing ethnic c...

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