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Drawing

Queen's Bluff below Trempealeau

Date: 1872
Description: The sidewheel packet, Red Wing, in the Mississippi River near Queen's Bluff below Trempealeau, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Sinking Boat Quincy

Date: 1906
Description: Side view of the sidewheel packet, Quincy, sinking in 1906. Only her two upper decks are above water. Trempealeau Mountain is in the background. Lat...
Photograph

Sidewheel Packet Quincy Sinking

Date: 1906
Description: Sidewheel packet Quincy, sinking. Only her two upper decks are above water. Trempealeau Mountain is in the background. Later renamed the J.S.
Photograph

Steamboat Quincy

Date: 1906
Description: The Diamond Jo line steamboat Quincy, sunk in 1906 near Trempealeau Mountain, then raised and renamed J.S.
Postcard

High School

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of the two-story brick High School building with basement. A bare flagpole is on the roof. Caption reads: "High School, Arcadia, wis."
Postcard

Blair House

Date: 1890
Description: View across unpaved road towards the Blair House. Caption reads: "Blair House, The Travelingman's Home, Blair, Wis."
Postcard

Trempealeau River

Date: 1890
Description: Trempealeau River and its banks, with a building and bridge in the background. Caption reads: "Trempealeau River Scene, Blair, Wis."
Drawing

East Side Residence of A.A. Arnold

Date: 1877
Description: View of cattle, sheep, and pigs in a pasture on a farm. Two houses are in the distance, and a horse-drawn carriage is moving along the road on the left. Ca...
Postcard

Ridge Street in Galesville

Date: 1910
Description: View down unpaved residential street with a large house on the right. An automobile is coming up the street. Caption reads: "Ridge Street Galesville, Wis."
Photograph

Court House

Date: 1920
Description: Elevated view of Whitehall from the Court House. A church is in the right foreground, and hills are in the distance. Caption at bottom reads: "Scene from C...
Photograph

View from First Peak

Date: 1907
Description: Elevated view from first peak of Trempealeau, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Trempealeau

Date: 1920
Description: A view of Trempealeau.
Photograph

Melchoir House

Date: 1931
Description: Drawing of the Melchoir House, which was a popular hostelry and brewery operated by Jacob Melchoir. It later became an Indian boarding house.
Photograph

Wisconsin Highway Sign

Date: 1925
Description: Wisconsin State Highway sign along STH 11 near Galesville, one of a whole new vocabulary of signage created for automobile traffic. The inverted triangle w...
Photograph

Group in front of House

Date: 
Description: A brick house with front porch and tower sits back from a road surrounded by trees and bushes. There is a horse-drawn carriage on the drive. Two people ar...
Photograph

Melchior Hotel

Date: 1925
Description: View from road of a two-story brick structure identified as the Melchior Hotel. See also image 67069.
Photograph

Field Mill

Date: 1938
Description: Field mill powered by an International PD-40 power unit. The power unit was owned by Walter Brown; a bridge and a body of water are to the right of the bui...
Postcard

Owen Street

Date: 06 07 1916
Description: View looking down Owen Street. A church steeple i on the right, partly obscured by trees. Caption reads: "Owen Street, Arcadia, Wis."
Postcard

Trempealeau River Bridge

Date: 
Description: Colorized postcard of the Trempealeau River Bridge. A lamppost is in the foreground, and buildings, including a church, are in the background. Caption read...
Postcard

Aerial View of Downtown

Date: 07 29 1909
Description: Aerial view of the downtown area, including a bridge spanning the Trempealeau River. Caption reads: "View of Arcadia, Wisconsin."

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