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Monroe Palmer Octagon House

Date: 1900
Description: The Monroe Palmer Octagon house, built about 1852 at Neshonoc, Wisconsin, and moved to this site in 1890.
Postcard

Hamlin Garland Homestead

Date: 1950
Description: Text on reverse: "Hamlin Garland Homestead. West Salem, Wisconsin. Purchased by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Hamlin Garland in 1893 for his parents, the ...
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Hamlin Garland House

Date: 
Description: The home of Hamlin Garland.
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Swarthout Lakeside Park

Date: 1955
Description: A motorboat on Lake Neshonoc is speeding toward the public landing, where there is a car parked and a small group of people has gathered. A man in a swimmi...
Postcard

High School

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "High School, West Salem, Wis." A two-story, brick high school with arched windows and a belfry. It is surrounded by a lawn and trees.
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Man Cultivating Corn in Strip-Cropped Field

Date: 07 18 1945
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of a man cultivating corn in stripped-cropped field using a Farmall H tractor and HM-238 Farmall cultivator. In the bac...
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"Carry A Nation"

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Description: View of (Carry) Carrie Nation speaking from a stage surrounded by a crowd at a county fair.
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Zulime Taft Garland and Mary Isabel

Date: 1903
Description: Zulime Taft Garland, wife of Hamlin Garland, holds their infant daughter Mary Isabel while sitting in a rocking chair.
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8-Can Milk Cooler

Date: 11 11 1936
Description: H.W. Griswold stands beside a McCormick-Deering 8-can milk cooler.
Postcard

Maple Grove Country Club

Date: 07 10 1970
Description: Text on front reads: "Maple Grove Country Club. West Salem, Wis. Built in 1928. Wisconsin's sportiest and most natural 18 hole golf course in the beautiful...
Postcard

Neshonoc Falls

Date: 01 13 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Neshonoc Falls, West Salem, Wis." The Neshonoc Dam, powerhouse and spillway on the La Crosse River. The powerhouse was built after 18...
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Memorial Park

Date: 1926
Description: View down path of Memorial Park. A pavilion in the center is surrounded by bushes and plants.
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Eugene Olson and His Dog

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Description: Eugene W. Olson and his dog, Travis, check the mailbox on a road near West Salem. In the background are fields on a hill.
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Albert Hammes and Young Helper

Date: 10 13 1978
Description: Albert Hammes, of West Salem, and his young helper standing in a field spearing picked tobacco on stakes to be dried in the barn.
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Albert Hammes in his Tobacco Field

Date: 10 13 1978
Description: Slightly elevated view of Albert Hammes, smoking a cigarette and tending to his tobacco crops. The flower tops have to be picked before harvesting to keep ...
Property Record

358 N Leonard St and WI 16

Community: West Salem
County: La Crosse
Historic Name: Palmer Brothers' Octagons
Reference Number: 16237
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Canning Factory

Date: 1911
Description: View across set of railroad tracks of a canning factory. There are a number of warehouses and outbuildings. Trees are on a hill in the background.
Property Record

103 S LEONARD ST

Community: West Salem
County: La Crosse
Historic Name: West Salem Village Hall
Reference Number: 16976
Property Record

N4668 County Highway VP

Community: West Salem
County: La Crosse
Historic Name: Veterans' Memorial Park Stone Bridge
Reference Number: 72337

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