Pukwana, SD
St. Procopius Church
"Retired" Catholic Church several miles from any dwellings, five miles south of Pukwana. The church still has one service a year, on the Sunday before Memorial Day. I believe the church founders were Serbian. It was built in 1891 to replace a church that disappeared during a tornado, and never received electricity. The church was in active use until the early 1990s, heated with a wood stove during winter.
Camera: c.1925 Gundlach Korona 5x7. Lens: c.1862 Voigtlander Petzval FL=12 inch (300mm). Wet plate shot on black tin, f16 and 2s exposure.
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