This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Driftless River Initiative highlights steamboat and river history
University of Wisconsin La Crosse Murphy Library advances the Driftless River Initiative to digitize and showcase thousands of historical steamboat photos, river maps, and field notes from the Driftless region. The project, with ties to UW system researchers and federal maps, seeks grants to expand access online and spur new research into the Mississippi’s past.
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Mississippi
Mindel
Stanley Trimble
University of California
Los Angeles
Wisconsin
Stafford Happ
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Upper
Mississippi River National Fish and Wildlife Refuge
Fred Lesher
Uw-La Crosse
Lesher
Upper Mississippi River Conservation Committee
The
Ifat
Great Lakes
Coon Creek
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Oxford
Miss
David Mindel
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Minnesota
University of Wisconsin- la Crosse
Murphy Library
Murphy
Mississippi River
Jen Towner