Onlookers view a procession including a horse-drawn carriage and children and adults on foot during an Independence Day celebration July 4, 1912, in New Glarus. The flags of both the United States and Switzerland are carried in the parade. The photograph was taken at the intersection of First Street and Fifth Avenue, looking south toward Sixth Avenue. This photo and more of New Glarus and Green County can be found in the Wisconsin digital collection available at 

uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/wi/newglarus. The New Glarus Historical Society Inc. was founded in 1938 to not only preserve the unique history of New Glarus but to share it through the Swiss Historical Village and Museum that it owns and operates. For more information on the history of New Glarus and the museum, visit www.swisshistoricalvillage.org.