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US ARC River Falls SC 384 · collection · 1993

Inscriptions copied by Judy Schultz in 1993 from tombstones in Sacred Heart Cemetery, located on County Highway H in Burnett County, Wis. Information dates 1850-1993 and includes the names of the interred; birth and death dates; rank, service branch, unit, and war (for veterans); and notes on special markings or decorations. There is also a name index.

Tombelson, Lloyd
UWRF Series 226-16.D.5.3
Part of Student Memorabilia Collection

A small scrapbook entitled "Gathered Leaves" includes local images and notes or signatures from faculty and students from the River Falls Normal School.

US ARC PH 2012.003.033 · item · Unknown
Part of Photographic postcard collection

Real picture postcard of the toll house, most likely the one over the St. Croix River between Wisconsin and Minnesota. Image shows the toll house, the road it arches over, two cars coming towards viewer, and a figure collecting tolls. U.S. Highway 12 once crossed the St. Croix River on a toll bridge between Wisconsin and Minnesota, which provided revenue for the town. With the construction of Interstate 94, the toll bridge was removed, though the long causeway extending to the former bridge location is now open to the public as a pedestrian walkway.

US ARC PH 2017.009.005 · item · [ca. 1905]
Part of Photographic postcard collection

Real-photo postcard with aerial view of part of the bridge between St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, and Taylors Falls, Minnesota, and rock formations in the Dalles area of the St. Croix River. Published by M. A. Whedon, Minneapolis. Date from postmark: Aug 21, 1905; mailed from St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, and rec'd in Madison, Wisconsin, on Aug 22, 1905; green 1¢ Benjamin Franklin stamp (design A115). Addressed to Miss Pollie Scampton, 919 W. Johnson St., Madison, Wisconsin; message on the recto: "St. Croix, Wisconsin Sunday Aug. 20. Dear Pollie. You may be surprised to see I am in Wisconsin We came to Taylor Falls last night & this place is just around the river. The rapids are beautiful. We expect to go thru the Park & take a boat to see the Dalles. It reminds me of our trip several yrs. ago. I expect to go home next wek. Mother is along and stands the trip fine. We have a lovely place to stay here. Am going back to Minnesota tonight. Love from all, [smeared name]."

US ARC PH 1962.001.047 · item · [between 1922 and 1946]
Part of Photographic postcard collection

Real-photo postcard with image of the toll bridge being raised for boats at Prescott, Wisconsin. The Point Douglas Drawbridge at Prescott is the crossing for U.S. Highway 10 between Wisconsin and Minnesota. Text printed on verso: Moen Photo Services, La Crosse Wisconsin Printed on EKKP paper (used 1904-1950). Unused.

US ARC River Falls SC 59 · collection · 1861-1863.

Letters received by Jonah Todd of Prescott, Wisconsin, including four from a cousin, John A. Lockwood, in Ohio; one Civil War letter from a friend, E. C. Cleveland who was serving with Co. A, 17th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, at Holly Springs, Mississippi; and one addressed to a William James Gibbs.

US ARC PH 1962.002.001 · item · [ca. 1908]
Part of Photographic postcard collection

Real-photo postcard with image of the tobacco harvest on the Lavern S. Haskins farm in the Haney Valley in Crawford County, Wisconsin. Text printed in the postage square: "Multiscope and Film Co, Burlington, Wisconsin" and "Badger." Unused.

US ARC River Falls SC 294 · collection · undated

Advertising brochures, one price list, and a history of Thomas Emerson Tubbs and his Tubbs Medicine Co. of River Falls, Wisconsin, written by Ericson.
The Tubbs Medicine Co. produced and distributed patent medicines. The manuscript traces the firm's history through 1910.

US ARC River Falls SC 30 · collection · 1961-1963

Letters nominating Healy, Donegal School, District 9, River Falls Township, Pierce County, Wisconsin, as "Wisconsin Rural Teacher of the Year" in 1961 and 1963, including a letter enclosing a history of the school; and a photograph of Healy with pupils.