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.

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 1941 to 1979. 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 1924-1979.

Much of the League's work involved monitoring and studying the actions of governmental bodies. The collection includes a few observation reports, which members compiled after observing meetings of local governmental bodies, and letters and questions and answers from interviews with a few La Crosse state and national legislators. 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. The files of state LWV statements, legislative summaries, position papers, and “Time for Action” flyers, national LWV “Action Alerts,” memoranda, National Board Reports, “Reports From the Hill,” statements, and press releases are scattered, but indicate which topics were chosen for study by the La Crosse League and how they incorporated the suggested material into the local studies.

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 contemporary topics of state and national scope. The topics studied include: administration of justice and juvenile justice; area planning, land use and zoning; civil and human rights; community care organizations; community development; conservation of natural resources, the environment and the Mississippi River Basin; state constitutional revision; county and state government; decriminalization of marijuana; education and school system reform; energy; the Equal Rights Amendment; housing; foreign aid; taxation and property taxes; martial property reform and welfare rights and administration. Included with the material on marital property reform is a script and tape recording of a slide-tape show, entitled “Law and Marriage.”

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.