A pile of German textbooks, from the Baraboo High School, burning on a street in Baraboo, Wisconsin, during an anti-German demonstration

Photograph shows a crowd wearing heavy coats, with their backs to a pile of books burning on a street in Baraboo, Wisconsin; they are facing a man waving an American flag above the crowd just right of center near the Sauk County Courthouse, during winter or early spring 1918.

The Library has two copies of this photograph, this one has a small tear at top near upper left corner.
Exhibited: "Echoes of the Great War : American Experiences of WW I" in the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., April - Nov. 2017.
Accession PR 06 CN 464.