Stevens' Grocery, La Crosse, WI
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- Created Date
- 1888
- Description
View from street level of Stevens' Grocery that was located at 421 Main Street in downtown La Crosse, WI. The photograph includes several members of the Stevens family, including the children sitting on a small wagon and women looking from the windows above. Additionally, a horse and wagon on the street are also pictured. The photograph was accompanied with a letter written by Benjamin Alonzo Stevens, Jr., a descendent of the original Stevens family, and it states: "Dear Mr. Charles Auenson! I want to thank you for talking with me at your store and in being interested in my story about my great-grandfather, grandfather and my father. I’m sending you this picture of their store and residents in the year of 1888. 'My father was born on the 2nd floor of the frame building in January 29th 1889. My great-grandfather stands in the stairway door; My grandfather in shirt sleeves stands in the store entrance; My grandmother with my aunt Helen are in the middle window-2nd floor over the grocery;
Original photograph owned by the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Murphy Library Special Collections.
The photograph was scanned as part of a collaboration with The Pediment Group, and is included in the book, "La Crosse Memories: The Early Years," published in 2016.
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
- Subjects
- Horses
Stores & shops -- Grocery stores -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
Carts & wagons
Business districts -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
Carriages & coaches
Buildings -- Historic buildings -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse
Storefronts -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse - Type
- image
- Language
- English
- Rights
- This material may be protected by copyright law (e.g., Title 17, US Code). For more information about the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Murphy Library's copyright, fair-use, and permissions policies, please see https://digitalcollections.uwlax.edu/.
- Chicago citation style
- Stevens' Grocery, La Crosse, WI. 1888. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digitalcollections.uwlax.edu/jsp/RcWebImageViewer.jsp?doc_id=587cc8cf-11a3-4345-a3a7-e20620b5c56d/wlacu000/00000008/00000107. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- (1888) Stevens' Grocery, La Crosse, WI. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digitalcollections.uwlax.edu/jsp/RcWebImageViewer.jsp?doc_id=587cc8cf-11a3-4345-a3a7-e20620b5c56d/wlacu000/00000008/00000107
- MLA citation style
- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://digitalcollections.uwlax.edu/jsp/RcWebImageViewer.jsp?doc_id=587cc8cf-11a3-4345-a3a7-e20620b5c56d/wlacu000/00000008/00000107>.