The Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. purchased the La Crosse Plow Works plant in 1929 and operated foundy and manufacturing facilities on 38 acres in the Front, Third, and State streets areas until closing in 1969. The publications in this collection are employee-published newsletters and sales periodicals.

Correspondence written to Charles Reinhard, a La Crosse resident from Sandusky, Ohio, who was in the wine business. He purchased a farm of 34 acres in Ebner Coulee, an area in La Crosse, Wis., in 1909 complete with fruit trees. By 1936, Reinhard had built or was using a press house, a two-storey house and summer kitchen in his winery. Reinhard's son Carl was a foreman at La Crosse Floral. This correspondence was found in the house at 3539 Ebner Coulee Road.

This collection contains photographs of the Colonial Golf Course Clubhouse and the Sunshine Poultry Farm, circa 1930s-1940s. Photos feature Henry Leidel, Mamie Leidel, their farmhouse, and animals on their farm, including their dog(s) and chickens.

Photo album of Helen G. (Poehling) Bott (1894-1965) includes images of her family home at 226 N. 23rd St., La Crosse, Pump House, Grandad's Bluff, West Salem, Hokah, MN, class at Cathedral School, nursing school and classmates at Grandview Hospital; also pictured brother Albert Poehling in World War I uniform, the Troendle family and scenes from old Feldbruegge homestead on St. Mary's Ridge, Wisconsin, that include scenes of farm and family life in rural Wisconsin, circa 1915-1925.

Copy of Pioneer Days of Barre [Borre] Stoen by Melvina Casberg of Holmen, Wis., ca. 1936-1939. This typed transcript forms part of the U. S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project. The original transcript is housed as part of the Library of Congress' Folklore Project, Life Histories, 1936-1939.