Panoramic view of La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1911 – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Panoramic view of La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1911, preserved in this historic image. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Panoramic view of La Crosse, Minnesota [sic]
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Panoramic view of La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1911
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By 1911 La Crosse had outlived the sawmill boom that had made it, as the white pine cut upriver had dwindled and its lumber yards were giving way to other work. The city's economy now leaned on breweries, including the Heileman works, on its tanneries and factories, and on the railroad division yards, where crews and shop workers kept the Milwaukee Road's trains moving along the Mississippi. Residents living in the wards climbing the bluffs were used to hearing the whistles of trains and the clatter of streetcars, and they knew their town as a place of workers' neighborhoods, German beer halls, and Norwegian Lutheran congregations. The view from the heights above the river would have shown them the rail lines and the levee at a moment when the town's future rested on manufacturing rather than on logs.
| Created / published | 1911 |
|---|---|
| Creator | haines photo co. (conneaut, ohio) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Wisconsin |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,302 × 844 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Panoramic view of La Crosse, Minnesota [sic] |
| Reference | WI 1911c Panoramic view of La Crosse |
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