C and J Michel Brewing Co window display circa 1920
A photograph from around 1920 shows a C and J Michel Brewing Co window display. Offices were at 727 So 3rd St and storerooms at 104 Main St. Symbols include the bottle, the elf figure, and the Stranger in his Native Land motif with an Indian overlooking a river. Source: Area Research Center Murphy Library La Crosse State University.
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C & J Michel Brewing Co
So. 3Rd St
Main St
Area Research Center
Murphy Library
la Crosse State University
Area Research Center at La Crosse Focuses on Wisconsin History
The Area Research Center at Eugene Murphy Library La Crosse State University serves eight Wisconsin counties Jackson Juneau Trempealeau Sauk Monroe Richland Vernon and La Crosse. It houses rare books city directories jail records tapes and contemporary Midwest poetry manuscripts. Ed win Hill curator notes the center collects and preserves local history while inviting public use for specific research needs.
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Peggy Pierce
LCU Information Services
Area Research Center
Eugene Murphy
la Crosse State University
University
State Historical Society
Wisconsin
Jackson
Juneau
Trempealeau
Sauk
Monroe
Richland
Vernon
la Crosse
Edwin Hill
Madison
Society
Hill
Howard Fredricks
la Crosse State
Ed Hill
Susan Strehl
Harold Ristow
Weekend Chuckles Collection of Light Jokes and Gags
A 1971 humor piece mixes mishaps and punchlines from daily life. It features a shipwrecked missionary spotting bombers, a child paying taxes with a penny, a refrigerator song at a birthday party, a dog eating a ticket on a train, and quips from an Army doctor, a rug inquiry, a pompous office guest, a window washer, and more in a light weekly roundup.
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Brewin
Elpenbrau
Fed Michel Brewing
Eleenbrau
August Derleth
la Crosse City
John Judson
William Birdsall
Midwest
Washington University
St. Louis
Felix Pollak
Dave Etter
Pollak
Vienna
Austria
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Geneva
Ill
University of Nebraska Press
Northeast Juniper Books
Midland Poetry
Center For Contemporary Poetry
Judson and Hill
William Varens
Emerson Wuilling
Lisel Mueller
John Knoepfle
Laos
Gen. Fea. Corp
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!