Lewis Koch photographs, 1978-1998

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Koch, Lewis, 1949-

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Collection of Wisconsin photographer Lewis Koch consisting of transparencies, prints, and publications. The transparencies include images of the Wisconsin Folklore Festival held at the Capitol Squa...

Collection of Wisconsin photographer Lewis Koch consisting of transparencies, prints, and publications. The transparencies include images of the Wisconsin Folklore Festival held at the Capitol Square (Madison, Wis.) in 1998; the Taliesin and Hillside School Studio in Spring Green; two Wisconsin Grottos in Dickeyville and Rudolph; the Circus World Museum; downtown Baraboo and the International Crane Festival in Baraboo; the Fred Smith Concrete Park in Phillips; and original fieldwork images by Koch from "A Kingdom of Fiddlers: Old-Time Music Traditions in the Rural Community". The prints principally document "Sites of Southern Wisconsin," a National Endowment for the Arts Photography Survey grant project. Publications include Sites of Southern Wisconsin: Three Photographers view Commonplace Structures and the Built Environment and Farmhouse Fiddlers: Music and Dance Traditions in the Rural Midwest as well as the teacher's guide, filmstrip and cassette tape of A Kingdom of Fiddlers.

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