The Burki Sisters (Greitly, Mary, and Elizabeth) examine the latest issue of the German language periodical Abendschule (St. Louis: L. Lange, 1853- , ca. 1905). The sisters were residents of Helvetia, a Swiss settlement established in West Virginia's rugged east-central mountain region shortly after the Civil War. More than 300 photographs documenting life in this tiny ethnic community, taken in the years surrounding the turn of the 20th century, are preserved in the West Virginia and Regional History Collection of the West Virginia University Libraries. The Regional History Collection is the leading historical information repository in the state of West Virginia. Its holdings include archives and manuscripts, publications, maps, broadsides, sound recordings, and more than 100,000 photographs.