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Guide to the La Crosse, Wisconsin, Committee on Public Utilities, Resolutions and Reports Relating to Public Utilities, 1874-1932
La Crosse Series 029
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Abstract
- Resolutions and reports from the Committee on Public Utilities to the Common Council, 1874-1932. The materials are arranged in chronological order. The Committee on Public Utilities was organized about the mid 1920s and was responsible for Streetcars (1921-1931), Telephone/Telegraph service (1930-1931), Water & Waste Water utilities (sewers and water). The majority of this series are resolutions related to sewer (1883-1932) and water service (1874-1932).
- Collection Title
- La Crosse, Wisconsin, Committee on Public Utilities, Resolutions and Reports Relating to Public Utilities
- Date of Materials
- 1874-1932
- Creator
- La Crosse (Wis.). Committee on Public Utilities.
- Call Number
- La Crosse Series 029
- Amount
- 5.6 cubic feet
- Physical Description
- 14 archives boxes
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- La Crosse Public Library Archives
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], La Crosse, Wisconsin, Committee on Public Utilities, Resolutions and Reports Relating to Public Utilities, La Crosse Series 029, La Crosse Public Library Archives, La Crosse, WI
Historical Note
Before the mid 1920s when we believe this council committee was organized, resolutions dealing with public utilities were handled by whatever committee Council decided should discuss it. For instance, wires associated with telephone and telegraph service were referred to the Streets & Alleys committee, except those wires on the municipal bridge which the Bridge committee had control of. Another example is street lighting and the discussion of a municipally operated power utility was referred to a committee on Street Lighting. Many of these public utilities were privately owned and a separate committee on Railroads dealt with those companies. The Public Utilities committee may in fact be an expansion of the Railroad committee to encompass all public utilities.
Scope and Contents
Common Council resolutions and reports began to be organized by a numbering system in Dec. 1932. Before that time the resolutions were kept folded up in chronological order, roughly by subject or Council committee (such as Parks, Judiciary, Fire, Police, etc.). This set of pre-1932 resolutions represents those labeled as Public Utilities, and date from 1874-1932, though the committee was not organized until the end of the 1920s or early 1930. The original order of these reports was maintained.
The resolutions deal mainly with water (1874-1932) and sewer (1883-1932) resolutions, although a very small amount is dealing with streetcars (1921-1931) and telephone/telegraph service (1930-1931).
Administrative Information
Publication Information
La Crosse Public Library Archives 1998 November
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archives@lacrosselibrary.org
Access to Materials
Materials in this collection are available for patron use.
Acquisitions Information
(Accession no. 1996.004) Resolutions were located in the City Clerk’s basement area of City Hall; came to the Archives as part of the Mayor’s Special Committee on Historic Records, Dec. 1996
Processing Information
Processed by Anita Taylor Doering with assistance from Jaime Dechant, November 1998
Related Materials
Related Materials
- (La Crosse Series 011)
- La Crosse, Wisconsin, Committee on Streets and Alleys, Resolutions and Reports Relating to Streets and Alleys
- (La Crosse Series 015)
- La Crosse, Wisconsin, Water and Waste Water Utility Records
- (La Crosse Series 023)
- La Crosse, Wisconsin, Committee on Street Lighting, Resolutions and Reports Relating to Street Lighting
- (La Crosse Series 025)
- La Crosse, Wisconsin, Committee on Buildings and Grounds, Resolutions and Reports Relating to Buildings and Grounds
- (La Crosse Series 032)
- La Crosse, Wisconsin, Committee on Railroads, Resolutions and Reports Relating to Railroads
Controlled Access Headings
Corporate Name(s)
- La Crosse (Wis.). Common Council.
Subject(s)
- Cable cars (Streetcars)--Wisconsin--La Crosse
- Municipal government--Wisconsin--La Crosse
- Public records--Wisconsin--La Crosse
- Public utilities--Wisconsin--La Crosse
- Sewage disposal--Wisconsin--La Crosse
- Telegraph--Wisconsin--La Crosse
- Telephone--Wisconsin--La Crosse
- Water-supply--Wisconsin--La Crosse
OCLC Number
47597242
Collection Inventory
| Box | Folder | |||
|
Sewer, 1883-1932 |
1 | 3 | ||
| 2-4 | ||||
|
Streetcars, 1921-1931 |
1 | 1 | ||
|
Telephone/telegraph, 1930-1931 |
1 | 2 | ||
| Box | ||||
|
Water, 1874-1932 |
5-14 | |||