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Immigrant Life: Germans, Swiss and Polish in Wisconsin

Doris Platt explores immigrant traditions of German, Swiss and Polish settlers in Wisconsin.

01/01/1958 | Rating TV-G

Pioneer Wisconsin

Immigrant Life: Germans, Swiss and Polish in Wisconsin

Special | 19m 28sVideo has Closed Captions

Doris Platt explores immigrant traditions of German, Swiss and Polish settlers in Wisconsin.

Join Doris Platt of the Wisconsin Historical Society as she brings to life the traditions of 1850s–60s German, Swiss and Polish immigrants in Wisconsin. Discover the first kindergarten, folk dances, handcrafted dolls and wycinanki paper art. Learn how these communities shaped farming, music and culture in their new home.

01/01/1958 | Rating TV-G

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'Pioneer Wisconsin' is one of PBS Wisconsin's — known then as WHA-TV — earliest educational children's television programs of the late 1950s. Originally recorded on 16mm film — part of...

Pioneer Wisconsin

Immigrant Life: Germans, Swiss and Polish in Wisconsin

Special | 19m 28sVideo has Closed Captions

Join Doris Platt of the Wisconsin Historical Society as she brings to life the traditions of 1850s–60s German, Swiss and Polish immigrants in Wisconsin. Discover the first kindergarten, folk dances, handcrafted dolls and wycinanki paper art. Learn how these communities shaped farming, music and culture in their new home.

01/01/1958 | Rating TV-G

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Pioneer Wisconsin is a local public television program presented by PBS Wisconsin

'Pioneer Wisconsin' is one of PBS Wisconsin's — known then as WHA-TV — earliest educational children's television programs of the late 1950s. Originally recorded on 16mm film — part of...

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