An Amish woman in an old-fashioned black buggy guides her horse down a country road in Monroe County, Wisconsin
Summary
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Once concentrated in New York, Pennsylvania, and other eastern states, the highly conservative and traditional Amish people, who eschew many modern conveniences such as electric power and gasoline automobiles, have steadily moved westward, looking for good farmland.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:103-1).
Forms part of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
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Date
01/01/2016
Location
monroe county
Source
Library of Congress
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