Resources
—Education & Schools—
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La Crosse School of Music (La Crosse, Wis.)
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"Incorporated under the Laws of Wisconsin, for the purpose of giving instruction in Voice Culture, Instrumental Music of all kinds, and Art of Expression." Organized by Fred Leithold, the private La Crosse School of Music offered students private lessons out of the Leithold business. Particularly charming are the descriptions of the faculty and the photographic images of the lesson rooms at 325 Main Street.
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Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
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Compiled by Barbara Nord and Viola Oertel, this is a checklist of schools located in the city of La Crosse boundaries, derived from La Crosse city directories. The compilation includes public and parochial schools, as well as specialized day care centers, special education schools, music, dancing, and miscellaneous schools.
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Wisconsin Business University
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Frank J. Toland operated several business schools and his main one was called Wisconsin Business University located in La Crosse, Wisconsin. This booklet contains a descriptions of courses commonplace in the late 19th and early 20th century business schools of the time.
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La Crosse Public Library
Creator:
Anita Taylor Doering
William D. Petersen
William D. Petersen
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Includes chapters on the Young Men's Library Association -- Cadwallader C. Washburn -- growth and the modern library -- expansion and change -- appendices -- index
History derived from the archives of the La Crosse Public Library, newspaper articles, and other sources.
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La Crosse Tribune
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La Crosse Tribune (La Crosse, Wis.)
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a newspaper supplement to the La Crosse Tribune newspaper that appeared November 1988
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La Crosse Public Library
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La Crosse Public Library (La Crosse, Wis.)
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the dedication program of the La Crosse Public Library building located at 800 Main Street
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publisher not identified
Creator:
Ken Brekke
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a brief history of the La Crosse Public Library from 1888-1997
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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program
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Agnes Osborne discusses her family and memories of her childhood in La Crosse during the turn of the century. Topics include but are not limited to: education, outdoor recreation, social activities, dances, parties, WWI, Great Depression, winter time, and summer time.
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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program
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Betty Warner discusses her time at UWL and her memories of Hans Reuter. Topics include but are not limited to: Reuter's UWL courses, testing, grading, student interactions, and syllabus in public schools.
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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program
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Bud Miyamoto (b. 1945) spends a majority of his interview remembering his early life in La Crosse, specifically life on the North Side as a Japanese American. Topics include but are not limited to: North Side neighborhood, his (white) mother's background and employment at the Auto-Lite factory, father’s service in the 100th Infantry Battalion during WWII and journey from Hawaii to La Crosse, Camp McCoy, local businesses (the Sweet Shop, the Country Kitchen, and the Riviera Theatre), social life and entertainment (school dances, drag races, movies, county fair, circus, and picnics), recreation and sports (swimming at the North Side Beach, softball at Copeland Park, and fishing on Black River), student rivalries between Central High School and Logan High School, health remedies, religion (St. Luke’s Methodist Church), anti-Japanese racism in town, Black Americans in La Crosse, Moss family, working-class cultures on North Side, Auto-Lite factory, community grief from 1959 lay-offs at Auto-Lite, employment (Manke Hardware Store, M. Lokken & Son Grocery, Neumeister’s Butcher Shop, Guggenbuehl and Nekola, Nelson’s Clothing Store, and Berg’s Pharmacy, Milwaukee Sentinel, the Sweet Shop, andSandy’s fast food), President John F. Kennedy, 1965 Flood, Lower North Side train depot, telephones, medical industry, and local radio.
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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program
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Ernest Gershon discusses attending the Phy. Ed. program at UWL in the mid-1900s. He speaks about being involved with gymnastics, dance, track and field, taking classes with Hans Reuter, and Reuter's impact on the university. Gershon also discusses gender roles in sports education.
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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program
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Geneva Ragland discusses her family history and social life and customs in early La Crosse history. Topics include but are not limited to: log riding, Ho-Chunk community members in 1870, baseball, Hixon family and home, Gillette family, Johns family, horse racing, and teaching and education.
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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program
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Glen Smith's interview focuses on the physical education program at UWL and Hans Reuter. Topics include but are not limited to: Hans Reuter (contributions curriculum, readings and writings, staff interactions, opinions of, retirement, impact on students), gymnastics, and the student teaching program.
Author:
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program
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Henry Norcross (b. 1899) describes his family background and life on French Island. Topics include but are not limited to: German ancestry, festivals, Milwaukee Railroad, farming, French Island and La Crosse tensions, education, winter, drowning accidents, diseases and quarantine (mumps, measles, chicken pox), Frank Powell and Buffalo Bill Cody, circus, summer fairs, Mary Hauck (doctor), early electric cars, Dr. McLoone and Bessie Moore murders, home remedies, Rubber Mills, railroad engineer, anti-German propaganda during WWI, Prohibition, bootleggers, tobacco usage, Great Depression, unemployment, being member of Ku Klux Klan (KKK) (audio cuts out here in the middle of his story), Lodge 754, union strikes and involvement, anti-Black racism and his perceptions of white working-class discrimination.
Content warning: this interview contains racist ideas and language.
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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program
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Haraldson begins his interview discussing his family history, early childhood in Norway, and his immigration journey to the U.S. as a young man. He first arrived in Westby, where he worked on a farm. When he came to La Crosse, he began working in the shoe trade. Topics include but are not limited to: cobbling in Norway, railroads as a form of transportation at the turn of the century, Norwegian community in Westby (WI), tobacco farming, Arenz Shoe Store, Fry Shor Company, WWI, local shoe-making industry, businessmen's club, Adolf Gundersen, Trinity Lutheran Church, night school and furthering education, store fire, Judge Lincoln Neprud.
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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program
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John Lysaker begins his interview discussing his education at Logan High School and school programs. Other topics include but are not limited to: Teacher's College, Catholicism, relations and businesses within ethnic groups, race relations, Rivoli Theatre and other movie theaters, carpentry, transportation, Copeland Avenue, railroad industry, the Great Depression, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War, veterans, 1965 flood, train depots, technology changes (computers and calculators).
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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program
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John Nevers primarily discusses the Physical Education program at UWL and Hans Reuter. Topics include but are not limited to: gymnastics at UWL, Hans Reuter (student interactions, class discipline, grading, demonstrations, coaching techniques, local and state involvement, staff opinions, inventions, teaching philosophy), student teaching program, dance and marching classes, gender roles, changes in the field, and public schools.
Author:
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program
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John P. Gilbertson begins his interview by discussing his Norwegian family history. His interview largely focuses on La Crosse social life and recreation, as well as his career as a letter carrier. Topics include but are not limited to: saw mills, railroads, Coon Valley, family working-class occupations, the Great Depression, history of the La Crosse Post Office, steamboats, La Crosse Inter-State Fair, farm technology, newspaper and press industry, education in La Crosse, Wisconsin Business University, the circus, segregation from Ho-Chunk community and community racism, Bartl Brewery, anti-Black racism and interracial marriage, river and lumber industries, Goosetown, gambling houses and City policies, anti-German discrimination, WWI, automobiles, federal government, development of the La Crosse Normal School (now UW-L), Hoeschler family, medical history, Adolf Gundersen, early Ho-Chunk community members, early Black American community members, La Crosse Historical Society, Nathan Myrick, local politics, Wisconsin Progressive Movement, corruption in La Crosse Police Department, personal sentiments towards communities with different identities than his own (Indigenous, Black American, and Jewish).
Note: This interview has sections of poor audio quality.
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Note: This interview has sections of poor audio quality.
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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program
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Kenneth and Marie Potterton discuss Han Reuter and the physical education program at UW-La Crosse. Topics include but are not limited to: Hans Reuter (description, physique, discipline, inventions, teaching methods, class standards, relationships, testing), and extracurricular activities.
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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program
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Van Loon discusses her ancestors' 1856 emigration from the Netherlands to Wisconsin, where they settled in New Amsterdam. She focuses on her father, John Van Loon, and also discusses general family life and her childhood growing up on a farm in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Topics also discussed include but are not limited to: ancestry, immigration from Holland, LaFleur family, New Amsterdam, Native Americans, Presbyterian Church, marriage and work, Childhood memories, diseases, Joseph Losey, her childhood home, her parents railroad tramps, birthday celebrations, farm animals, Christmas celebrations, farming and harvesting, education, Perkins family, Black Americans, childhood games, bluff hiking, agricultural and horticultural societies, traffic concerns with horses and cars, horse races, bird watching, food and cooking, farm labor, as well as local newspapers papers.
Warning, some bits of this recording has sound issues and the audio is incomprehensible.
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Warning, some bits of this recording has sound issues and the audio is incomprehensible.
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Maxine Kroner (b.1927) was born in Dodgeville, WI, but spent her childhood in La Crosse. In her interview, she discusses topics such as the Great Depression, welfare programs, the North Side neighborhood, Catholicism, private education (Aquinas), employment during WWII, teaching, working as a mother, local politics, the YMCA, the polio pandemic, and vaccines.
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Author:
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program
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Fitzpatrick discusses growing up in La Crosse, Wisconsin. She details family life and marriage; neighborhoods where she grew up and raised her own family; recreation activities; and local social life and practices.
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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program
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In this interview, Paul Cuta and Alberta (Cuta) Gund primarily discuss German and Czech culture during the early 20th century in La Crosse. Topics include but are not limited to: the family home (1016 Farnam Street), Bohemian (Czech) traditional names, Catholicism, parental roles, cigar making, commercial fishing, wooden boat building, Funke's Candy Company, gardens and growing vegetables, paternal grandparents, life in the family home, Hood-Powell Park neighborhood, religious divisions in town; German-Lutheran, German-Catholics, Bohemian-Catholics, Irish-Catholics, Holy Trinity Parochial School, activities at schools, fundraisers, sports, dancing, traditional Bohemian (Czech) food, World War II, La Crosse Tribune, fashion, war rations, street cars, Protestant and Catholic neighborhood relationships, The Strand Theater, recreation activities, school yard games, home remedies, Powells Park, Lapitz Grocery Store, shoe stores and cobblers, home funerals, Hammes Grocery Store, Bruha Selrite Grocery Store, Aboto's Confectionary, bicycling in 1940s, communications during Korean War, home-brew alcohol served in Bohemian Hall, Humms Bakery, Tabbert's Dry Goods Store, taverns, gasoline industry, Tomicek Car Service, financial loans, soap rations during WWII, Baum's Butcher Shop, Shimshack's Shoe Repair and Tavern, Not Your Uncle's Tavern, and the Prohibition era.
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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program
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Paul G. Pappas discusses growing up as one of five sons born to Greek immigrants who settled in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Topics include but are not limited to: the downtown business environment, the Elite, family background, Imperial Ice Cream Shop, childhood, Greek Food, church, religion, dating, sports and recreation, WWII, transportation, YMCA, Valley View Mall, 20th century technology changes (refrigerator, television), atomic bomb, Korean Conflict, McCarthyism, voting, local politics, Vietnam War, Civil Rights Movement, and marriage.
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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program
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Roy Randorf discusses his family background and life growing up in Wisconsin. Topics includ but are not limited to: family ancestry, education, teenage years, youth drinking culture, UW-Stevens Point, United States Army (race and discrimination, bullying, mental abuse, entertainment, living conditions, venereal disease, harassment, propaganda), trial and imprisonment for going AWOL, prison life (censorship in books, racial tensions, protesting, cigarettes, homosexuality, drugs, entertainment, psychiatrists), Vietnam War (training, deployment, impressions, racial discrimination, sex work and trafficking, guerilla warfare, bombing, relationships and communication with South Vietnamese, combat injury, wound treatment, veteran life, morale, food, medical treatment, amputees, recreational activities, discharge, PTSD), civilian life, UW-La Crosse, Computer Science Program, politicization, Young Democrats and Young Republicans, voting, politics, campus life, and student government.
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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program
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In this interview, Stacy Hass discusses her time serving in the U.S. military during World War II and the Korean War. Topics include but are not limited to: enlistment into the Marine Corps Women's Reserve (1942), propaganda posters, basic training, Marine Corps Base Camp (Lejeune, North Carolina, 1943), professional interactions with men, Marine Corps Air Station (El Toro, California, 1943), supply and office work, Pearl Harbor, husband's combat experience in the South Pacific, wartime communication, censored letters from husband, Post-Pearl Harbor, Japanese concentration camps, wartime recreation, Marine Corps Reserves Base Camp (El Toro, California), Air Base training (El Toro, California), education, post-war activities, accounting firm, Korean War, husband drafted, earning Bachelor's degree, and teaching.
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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program
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William Picket primarily discusses the physical education program at UW-La Cross in the mid-20th century. Topics include but are not limited to: Hans Reuter (character, inventions, teaching methods, ability, contributions, appearance), student teaching, Bob Nohr, Walter Wittich, physical education staff, Education during the Great Depression, gymnastics classes, dance classes, marching formation, student life at UW-La Crosse.
Author:
Western Wisconsin Technical Institute
Creator:
John B. Coleman, 1889-
Description:
Based on an original oral history project recording by Howard R. Fredricks; edited by Donald J. Meinert.
John B. Colman relates his life story but focuses on his tenure at the Western Wisconsin Technical College or Western Technical College and changes in vocational education.
John B. Colman relates his life story but focuses on his tenure at the Western Wisconsin Technical College or Western Technical College and changes in vocational education.
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publisher not identified
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L. H. (Louis Hermann) Pammel 1862-1931
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publisher not identified
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La Crosse Public Library (La Crosse, Wis.)
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a dedication program dated January 6, 1980, for an addition to the La Crosse Public Library building named in memory of Edyth and Susan Swarthout, sisters who bequeathed the monies necessary for the addition; included is a brief biography of the Swarthout sisters