[Historical sites of U.S. and Wisconsin] [motion picture] / Vincent Koch and Ardelia Koch. [between 1935 and 1950]

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[Historical sites of U.S. and Wisconsin] [motion picture] / Vincent Koch and Ardelia Koch. [between 1935 and 1950]

Vincent and Ardelia Koch shot these movies during their travels in northern Wisconsin and the eastern United States. Includes footage of Northland College in Ashland, Wis.; Fort Winnebago; Washington, D.C.; New York City; New Haven, Conn.; Tennessee; Kentucky; Massachusetts (Cape Cod, Plymouth Rock, Boston Harbor); and Janesville, Wis.

9 film reels of 9 (2,042 ft.) : si., col. and b&w ; 16 mm. arch pos.

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Northland College (Ashland, Wis.)

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In 1979, Northland College, assisted with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, began to document ethnic traditions. The focus of their search was people of Scandinavian, Finnish, East European and Native American descent. They looked within a 60-radius of Ashland, Wisconsin and Hancock, Michigan. The result is over 100 hours of interviews and music recorded from regional ethnic performers in addition to folk music collections, books, bibliographies, reference guides and photographs. ...