Title: Library League of La Crosse Records
Date: 1990-1998

Creator:

• Library League of La Crosse (La Crosse, Wis.)

Unique Identifier: MSS 014

Quantity: 0.8 cubic feet

Physical Description: 2 archives boxes

Repository:

La Crosse Public Library
Contact Information

Archival Location:

La Crosse Public Library (Map)

Abstract:

The Library League of La Crosse was founded in 1990 to help raise funds though a Christmas home tour to benefit the La Crosse Public Library. The non-profit organization dissolved in 1998.

The collection includes meeting minutes (1990-1998), publicity materials and photographs of the various home tours of La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.lcpl-mss014

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(Accession No. 1999.007) Additionally, Archives regularly received minutes from the organization until its dissolution.

Materials in this collection are available for patron use.

[Identification of item], Library League of La Crosse Records, MSS 014, La Crosse Public Library Archives, La Crosse, WI

Processed by Anita Taylor Doering, Dec. 1992; Dec. 1997; additions processed by Christine Stolz, June 2001.

The collection consists of meeting minutes and publicity of the tours 1990-1997. Photographs are available of some of the homes featured on the tours from 1990-1992, 1995, and 1997. No photographs are available for homes featured on the 1993-1994 and 1996 tours. A VHS video tape of news coverage for the 1991 tour is also in the collection.

Some meeting minutes, information on distribution of Library League funds, and membership lists are available for 1998.

The project began in the summer of 1990 when Mariel Carlisle and Hayden Hauser approached the Preservation Alliance of La Crosse with the idea for a Christmas Home Tour such as the one Winona has each year to benefit its historical society. The Preservation Alliance decided that the hours of work and number of people required to organize such an event was too much for their small organization to handle. Hayden Hauser, Sue Gelatt and Mariel Carlisle then approached James White, director of the La Crosse Public Library, about the possibility of sponsoring the tour. He and the library board agreed.

Meetings were first held at the library and later at Ms. Carlisle's home to launch the project. Six homeowners agreed to show the first floor of their home decorated for Christmas. Through a lot of hard work and planning, the first tour was a success. Over $8200 was taken in from receipts. The money raised has been put toward many different items over the years: children's furniture, a big screen TV-VCR player, and computer furniture.

The tour was a yearly tradition until the last tour on Dec. 6, 1997. When turnout was low for the 1996 and 1997 tours, the Library League raised funds by running a concession stand at the Deke Slayton Airfest, June 19-21, 1998. This was the last fundraiser sponsored by the Library League.

• Library League of La Crosse (La Crosse, Wis.)
• Home tours--Wisconsin--La Crosse
• La Crosse (Wis.)--Societies, etc.

Box 1   Folder 2	By-laws, 1991-1996
Box 1   Folder 1	Origins and history
Box 2   Folder 17	Minutes, 1998-1999
	First Tour, 1990
Box 1   Folder 3	Minutes and publicity
	Photographs of homes
Box 1   Folder 4	Gathering Facility (Coach House)
Box 1   Folder 5	128 South 14th (Born)
Box 1   Folder 6	208 South 15th (Gelatt)
Box 1   Folder 7	217 South 15th (Vollmer)
Box 1   Folder 8	1419 Cass (Carlisle)
Box 1   Folder 9	1514 King (Garrity-Gokey)
Box 1   Folder 10	1525 Main (Smerud)
	Second Tour, 1991
Box 1   Folder 11	Minutes and publicity
Box 1   Folder 12	Newscast coverage Physical Description: VHS cassette; runtime unknown
	Photographs of homes
Box 1   Folder 13	404 South 15th (Arneson)
Box 1   Folder 14	1434 Cass (Mills)
Box 1   Folder 15	1601 Cass (Living Word Christian Church)
Box 1   Folder 16	1602 Cass (Guzman)
Box 1   Folder 17	1518 Madison (Fischer)
Box 1   Folder 18	1524 Madison (Draper)
	Third Tour, 1992
Box 1   Folder 19	Minutes and publicity
	Photographs of homes
Box 1   Folder 20	147 South 13th (Sherwood)
Box 1   Folder 21	125 South 16th (Hartigan)
Box 1   Folder 22	204 South 19th (Hoffmann)
Box 1   Folder 23	1511 Main (Leehey)
Box 1   Folder 24	1522 Main (Severson)
Box 1   Folder 25	1611 Main (Doering)
	Fourth Tour, 1993
Box 2   Folder 1	Minutes and publicity
	Fifth Tour, 1994
Box 2   Folder 2	Minutes and publicity
	Sixth Tour, 1995
Box 2   Folder 3	Minutes and publicity
	Photographs of homes
Box 2   Folder 4	142 South 14th (Miller)
Box 2   Folder 5	410 South 14th (Quinlisk)
Box 2   Folder 6	111 South 17th Place (Kerrigan)
Box 2   Folder 7	1419 Cass (Carlisle)
Box 2   Folder 8	1402 King (Hauser)
	Seventh Tour, 1996
Box 2   Folder 9	Minutes and publicity
	Eighth Tour, 1997
Box 2   Folder 10	Minutes and publicity
	Photographs of homes
Box 2   Folder 11	323 South 20th (Gundersen)
Box 2   Folder 12	1733 Cameron (Williams)
Box 2   Folder 13	2515 Cass (Stewart-Schuning)
Box 2   Folder 14	1218 Madison (Sandlebeck)
Box 2   Folder 15	1420 Madison (Florine)
Box 2   Folder 16	819 West Ave South (Gushiken)