Summary Information

Title: LaVern A. Kohn Moving Image Materials
Inclusive Dates: 1930-1940

Creator:

• Kohn, LaVern A.

Call Number: AD 038; AD 039; CB 435; CB 436

Quantity: 4 film reels

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Amateur footage made during the 1930s by LaVern A. Kohn, former highway commissioner of Dodge County, Wis. (1933-1939), which includes a ski tournament in Oconomowoc, Wis.; a car race; a duck release at the Horicon Marsh; the Century of Progress International Exhibition, Chicago, Ill., 1933-1934; highway snow removal in Dodge County, Wis.; road construction equipment and processes in Delton, Wis., and Iron Ridge, Wis.; parades in Reeseville, Wis., and Juneau, Wis.; and the 1933 milk strike. Some of this footage may have been shot as part of Kohn's work as highway commissioner. Other footage includes a baseball game and open pit mining.

Note:

There is a restriction on use of this material; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ad038

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