Photograph
Pioneer Sauna
| Log cabin-style sauna or steam bath. |
| Image ID: | 53441 |
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| Creation Date: | 06 1947 |
| Creator Name: | Kolehmainen, John |
| City: | Brantwood |
| County: | Price |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Photographs of Finnish settlements in northern Wisconsin, 1947 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | PH 2157 |
| Original Dimensions: | 3.5 x 5 inches |
| From the back of the photograph: One of the first, if not the first, buildings to go up was the sauna. While a number of Finns are now building their saunas in the basements of their homes, the sauna with smoke curling upward on Wednesdays and Saturdays remains the hallmark of a Finnish farm. Aleksi Kivi in his great book, Seven Brothers, said this about the sauna: "A farm without a bath-house is no good either from the standpoint of baths or the babies a wife or the farm-hand's women might have. Ay, a smoking bath-house, a barking hound, a crowing cock, and a mewing pussy, these are the signs of a good farm." |
| Farm buildings |
| Architecture |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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