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United States
Wisconsin
La Crosse
Architecture--Wisconsin--La Crosse
La Crosse (Wis.)--Church history
Cargill, W. W.--Biography
First Presbyterian Church (La Crosse, Wis.)--History

Pearl Philips

Includes a section on the Elsie Gile Scott residence
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Curtis Printing

United States
Wisconsin
La Crosse
La Crosse (Wis.)--Church history
First Presbyterian Church (La Crosse, Wis.)--History
First Presbyterian Church (La Crosse, Wis.)--Anniversaries, etc.
Presbyterian Church--Wisconsin--La Crosse--History

First Presbyterian Church (La Crosse, Wis.)

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program

Van Loon, Maude -- Interviews
Oral history
Oral history -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
Interviews -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
La Crosse (Wis.) -- History
Farm life -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
La Crosse (Wis.) -- Social life and customs
New Amsterdam (La Crosse County, Wis.) -- History

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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Tape 5