The church in this side-by-side comparison looks familiar at first glance. The steeple of Swiss United Church of Christ still rises above Village Park much as it does today. Yet a closer look reveals a version of New Glarus that has quietly disappeared over the last 75 years.

This photograph on the left was captured on a Kodachrome transparency slide in 1951 and recently digitally restored by New Glarus 360 resulting in the photograph on the right (and below). Using Adobe Photoshop, the image was enhanced to increase resolution, improve sharpness, boost contrast and correct decades of color shifting that had accumulated in the aging slide.

The result is not a recreation. Rather, it is a clearer view of information that was already present in the original film but largely hidden by age and deterioration.

One of the most striking aspects of the restored image is how prominently the church dominated the landscape.