The League's GENERAL RECORDS are comprised of by-laws of both the state and local organizations, an early and incomplete La Crosse League history, a few clippings of League activities, fairly routine correspondence and inter-office memoranda, minutes and reports from regular membership, regular and special board of directors meetings, annual meetings, and State Council meetings; League policies and guidelines; recommendations about national and state LWV program; reports of the president, League, and committees to the state and national LWV; scrapbooks; and speeches, notes, and press releases. The collection includes correspondence and information from Lorraine Dahl, a member of the La Crosse League who led the state-wide League of Women Voters in the 1950s.

State convention kits contain agenda, reports, resolutions, financial records, and other items sent to members in advance of each convention, and additional materials later collected at the meeting. Financial records include local League budgets and budget requests; fundraising and finance drive correspondence, lists of names, notes, clippings, and other papers; records of receipts and disbursements, often also listing members' names and dues; and treasurer's reports. While many of the financial record contain large gaps in information, the treasurers' reports are almost entirely complete from 1977-1999. Dues records are also found in many of the annual membership record books together with membership lists and yearbooks, lists of officers, and records of a membership pilot project comprise the La Crosse LWV membership records, dating from 1954-1999.

Much of the League's work involved monitoring and studying the actions of governmental bodies. Files on program planning and advocacy strategy emphasize some of the League's work to maintain a presence in many local and state issues. League publications are a significant part of the collection. Local bulletins, found here with very few missing issues, provided members with meeting information and calendars, while state and national publications provided the data for use while studying topics suggested by the national and state Leagues.

There are also fragmentary records of a few committees, including the Community Development, Education, and State Program and Action Committees and the Department of Government and Economic Welfare. With other Leagues around the country, the La Crosse LWV celebrated the fiftieth, seventieth, and seventy-fifth anniversaries of the national organization. In each of the anniversary years, the files contain correspondence and other records mainly concerning fundraising and anniversary activities.

Files on LOCAL STUDY ISSUES are comprised of correspondence to inform or persuade local and state legislators, collected studies and reports, clippings, near-print “study materials” prepared by the state and national LWV, LWV policy statements, and reports on a wide variety of topics. Most topics were suggested or authorized by the state or national organizations, with a La Crosse focus. Topics gradually evolved to reflect the local league's increasing concern with topics of state and national scope. The topics studied include: domestic violence; financing education; foreign policy; gun control; housing; juvenile justice; land use and zoning; civil rights; the environment and the Mississippi River Basin; energy; the Equal Rights Amendment; sex equity and schools; and welfare reform.

Also included is a collection of records concerning the production of a book on the social and political history of women in the La Crosse area entitled For the Common Good. These files contain information on the writing, editing, and sales of the book created by the La Crosse League from 1991 to 1997. A copy of the book is enclosed in the files, and the book received many positive reviews from around the country.

The files on voter services contain information on numerous aspects of the League's work to involve as many people as possible in the political process. These topics include debates, forums, election problems, voting irregularities and many written responses from candidates involved in various election campaigns. The majority of these files include information from the 1970s through the 1990s.

The La Crosse League was involved in the reapportionment battle between the City of La Crosse and the County of La Crosse from 1981 through 1982, and seven files contain a large amount of information on the highly charged disagreement. The fight included lawsuits and counter-suits over the changing of political boundaries undertaken by the City of La Crosse. The La Crosse League of Women Voters became involved in the fight when it attempted to help find an amicable solution to the dispute with both sides.

Health issues and health care also played a large role in many of the studies undertaken by the La Crosse League. Files in the collection concern health services in La Crosse and Wisconsin, health care forums undertaken by the League, heath services planning, and the 1982 merger of city and county heath care in the La Crosse area.