The City Of La Crosse, Wis. Its Advantages For Residence, Resources And Commercial Progress. From The Annual Report Of The Board Of Trade For 1891 With Representative Illustrations Of Its Residences And Public Buildings

The Art Gravure & Etching Co.

Publication: Press of King, Fowle & Co, 1891, Milwaukee

8" x 10-1/2" oblong pictorial wrappers. Advertisements. 162pp. including wrappers. Black and white map entitled "Map of the Territory with which La Crosse has Business Relations, Showing its Unexcelled River and Railroad Facilities." Another black and white map is entitled "Map Of The City Of La Crosse." Financial Statistics of commercial and industrial activity showing how La Crosse, Wis. has grown. Much information about La Crosse encouraging the potential homesteader all the features of desirable country residence and opportunities for culture. The municipal improvements of the year comprise about three miles additional water mains, about six miles added to our sidewalks, nearly two new brick school-houses, extended sewerage, a new city building, et. al. All of these cost money, but it would be difficult to find a tax-payer unwilling to admit their necessity. All of our public improvements have met with some opposition at their inception, but time has always proved the wisdom of those who promoted them. The energy and watchful economy of the committee and Board of Public Works who carried the wishes of the Council into effect, the skill of the architects who planned it, and the integrity of the contractors who built it. The following railroads sought access to La Crosse and strove for a share of its growing business: the Green Bay & Minnesota, the Chicago & North-Western, the Chicago, Clinton & Dubuque, and the river division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. Black and white photographs include the "Foot Bridge Across The Mississippi;" "City Hall;" "Methodist Church;" "Catholic Cathedral;" "Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Depot;" "La Crosse National Bank;" a fold-out view of "Sawyer & Austin Lumber Company's Plant;" "La Crosse Plow Works;" "Tillman Bros., Furniture;" E.R. Barron & Co., along with numerous homes, businesses, churches, banks, etc. Letterhead from E.R. Barron & Co., Dry Goods And Carpetings laid in. Moderate wear to wrappers and spine along with the last few pages of the booklet are loose from the staples. Good quality photographs else good copy of a booklet.

Inventory Number: 37979