Maps of the city of La Crosse, La Crosse County and surrounding region, including rail, highway, survey and topographic maps from the 1850s through the 1970s.
UW-La Crosse
Leaping La Crosse News
The Leaping La Crosse News, a monthly newsletter published from 1979-2007, was a source of information for lesbians living in the La Crosse, Wisconsin, area. Topics covered include national, state and local news of legal cases, entertainment and events as well as social and political activities of the La Crosse area lesbian community.
Listening to War
The Listening to War digital collection brings together first-person accounts of veterans and civilians in Wisconsin during World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Persian Gulf War. These stories of everyday life during wartime come from men and women who served on the battlefront; nurses, journalists, shipbuilders, and others who contributed to wartime work at home and abroad; Holocaust survivors who immigrated from Europe to Wisconsin after World War II; and Hmong refugees from Laos who were resettled in the state following the Vietnam War.
Maps and Atlases of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, and the Upper Mississippi River
Maps and atlases of La Crosse County including plat, highway, soil and topographic maps as well as zoning, park and street maps of the city of La Crosse and other La Crosse County municipalities. Also includes representative pre- and post-lock and dam charts and maps of the Upper Mississippi River.
Moving Picture Collection
UW-La Crosse Murphy Library Special Collections houses numerous analog historical moving pictures, some of which are featured in this collection.
Odin J. Oyen Collection
The Odin J. Oyen firm was once a thriving business in downtown La Crosse, Wisconsin, that created original watercolors as proposed interior designs. The firm, or variations of it, existed from the late-1800s up to the Great Depression, generating countless watercolor designs for the interiors of courthouses, churches, fraternal organizations, and private residences, in locations across the Upper Midwest and beyond. Several hundred original watercolors reside in Murphy Library Special Collections, owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, and local attorney Nicholas J. Passe acquired over 100 Oyen interior renditions and was willing to allow the Murphy Library Digital Collections to digitize and include those items in the Digital Collections. These items currently make up the Odin J. Oyen Collection.
Publications Related to La Crosse
A variety of publications relating to La Crosse and the surrounding region, including souvenir programs and pamphlets, church histories, directories and other published and unpublished documents.
R. W. Troxel Glass Plate Negative Collection
Roley William Troxel was born in 1883 in Richland County, Wisconsin and died in 1967 in Prairie du Chien. The photographs were taken mostly around Eastman, Wisconsin and other areas surrounding Prairie du Chien, likely between 1910 and 1920. Images include posed portraits, sports teams, various buildings and other landscape and street views.
Steam Ticket: A Third Coast Review
Founded in 1996 by members of the UW-La Crosse English department, Steam Ticket: A Third Coast Review is a nationally-distributed annual literary journal that publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and artwork from writers and artists around the world.
Taylor Brothers Photographs
Glass negatives created by the Taylor Brothers photographic studio of Adams County, Wisconsin, circa 1910-1930. Subjects are varied and include towns, buildings and street scenes in Adams County; construction and dedication of a new county courthouse; teachers, classes, and one-room school houses; road construction; and farmsteads, animals, and agricultural activities.
