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The Gypsy at the La Crosse Levee

Date: 1900
Description: Riverboats tied at the levee in La Crosse with the Gypsy in the foreground. Caption reads: "The Levee, La Crosse, Wis."
Photograph

Young Woman in Rowboat with Flowers

Date: 1900
Description: One of Gerhard Gesell's daughters (Wilma or Bertha) sitting in a rowboat holding a bouquet of Mississippi River water lilies. She is seated in the stern, t...
Photograph

Cassville Brewery

Date: 1900
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...
Postcard

Cassville from a Bluff

Date: 1900
Description: View from bluff looking northwest at the town of Cassville. A church in the center is the dominant structure in the foreground. Caption reads: "Souvenir - ...
Photograph

Aerial View of Town and Mississippi River

Date: 1900
Description: Aerial view of town. The Mississippi River and far shoreline is in the background. The Furnace Branch creek runs through the town in the foreground.
Postcard

Elevated View of Cassville

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of Cassville and its residential area. Bottom text reads: "Souvenir, Cassville." Written at top right: "Cassvie Wis..... 190__."
Drawing

Levee Park

Date: 1900
Description: A drawing of Levee Park in La Crosse, with the Mississippi River in the foreground, and La Crosse in the background.
Photograph

J.J. Hogan Wholesales

Date: 1900
Description: View down railroad tracks, with the Mississippi River on the left, and on the right the J.J. Hogan Wholesale Company.
Postcard

View of La Crosse

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of La Crosse. Caption reads: "Panorama of La Crosse, Wis. from Grand Dad's Bluff."
Photograph

Panorama of La Crosse

Date: 1900
Description: Panoramic view of La Crosse.
Print

Dousman House

Date: 1900
Description: The Dousman House as seen from the Mississippi River. Caption reads: "Dousman House, East Bank of Mississippi River, Prairie Du Chien, Wis."
Photograph

Dousman House Hotel

Date: 1900
Description: The Dousman Hotel seen from an elevated view of the Mississippi River.
Photograph

Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Pontoon Bridge

Date: 1900
Description: Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad pontoon bridge between Marquette, Iowa, and Prairie du Chien.
Photograph

Panoramic View of La Crosse

Date: 1900
Description: Four-panel Panoramic view of La Crosse. Indentifiable businesses in view include: J. Hogan Wholesale Grocer, T.H. Spence Drug Co., Union Refrigerator Trans...
Photograph

Boys Undressing to Go Swimming in the Mississippi River

Date: 1900
Description: Boys undressing to go swimming in the Mississippi River. Alma, Wisconsin is across the river in the background.
Map or Atlas

Township Map of Wisconsin and Northern Michigan

Date: 1900
Description: A map of Wisconsin, eastern Minnesota and Iowa, northern Iowa, and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, showing railway lines, with those marked with heavy red line...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: This map, which shows the state of Wisconsin in 1895, was published as Rand, McNally & Co.'s New business atlas map of Wisconsin. Railroads, counties, citi...
Photograph

Steamboat "Henry Bosse" at Dock

Date: 1900
Description: View from shoreline of a group of people standing on the "Henry Bosse" steamboat, a two-decked sternwheeler. The steamboat is attached to a barge along the...
Photograph

Small Launch with Group of People

Date: 1900
Description: View from shoreline of group of people on an excursion boat which is along the shoreline.
Photograph

Steamboat "J.S." on Mississippi River

Date: 1900
Description: View from shoreline of steamboat. The letters 'J.S.' can be seen at the top of the boat. There are many passengers on board. Two men stand in the foregroun...

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