Historic Photo: New Glarus Swiss Yodelers
A Wisconsin Historical Society photo dated 1922 shows the New Glarus Swiss Yodelers in traditional dress, offering clues about local Swiss identity, music and cultural preservation.
A vintage photograph from the Wisconsin Historical Society shows a group identified as the New Glarus Swiss Yodelers posing among large rocks, dressed in traditional Swiss-style jackets and caps.
The Wisconsin Historical Society places the photograph in 1922, which makes the image especially interesting because the New Glarus Jodlerklub is generally understood to have been formally organized in 1928.
The date raises a question: Was there an earlier Swiss yodeling group in New Glarus before the formal Jodlerklub was established, or was the photograph dated incorrectly later?
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