Wisconsin Death Trip

Wisconsin Death Trip
ISBN-10
0826358403
ISBN-13
9780826358400
Category
Photography
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
2016-08-15
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Author
Michael Lesy

Description

First published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town has become a cult classic. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 by a Black River Falls photographer, Charles Van Schaik.

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