Photo Galleries
"La Crosse Wis. 1873"
Images of La Crosse from 1800s to early 1900s
Gallery 1 - historic photos of La Crosse - old streets, old buildings, old homes, and Old Man River, too. Most, if not all, of the photos in Gallery 1 are pre-1915.
Gallery 2 - historic drawings of La Crosse - Artists' renderings of La Crosse from the 19th century.
Gallery 3 - old postcards of La Crosse If you own any old postcards showing buildings or scenes in La Crosse that you'd be willing to share in this gallery, please contact the PAL office. (Postcards should be from before 1922 and no longer under U.S. copyright protection.)
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"Then and Now" - How is La Crosse looking a century later?
Compare photos from "then" and "now"
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Photos and video of PAL's log cabin preservation project
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Photos from PAL's annual Heritage Home Tours
See photos and read a bit of history about the homes that have been featured in the home tours, beginning with PAL's first annual Heritage Home Tour in 2003.
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Slideshows of places chosen to receive PAL's annual Heritage Awards
Check them out by decade: 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
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Check your old photo albums. If you have any nice old personal photos (snapshots) of La Crosse landmarks from days gone by that you'd be willing to share with us, please contact the PAL office. Photos can be from any year -- let's say any year prior to 1975 -- but you must be the owner of the photos. Copies of professional photos, especially from 1922 and later, can be used on this site only with permission of the copyright owner.
Examples of old photos we'd like to include in galleries on this site: the old Post office, the old Court House, old Central High School, UW-L (when it was known as "La Crosse Normal School", maybe?), other schools, churches, hospitals, North Side business district, downtown streets, stores, businesses, train stations... you get the idea. Specific descriptions of photos and the year they were taken (if you know or can make a good guess) would be great!
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