The University of Vermont has set-up this great website that features side-by-side comparisons of Burlington photographs taken during the Great Depression and today. The similarities are as striking as the differences, with one notable exception: elm trees. Burlington of the 1930s lived beneath a canopy of tall elms that were almost completely wiped out by Dutch elm disease in the mid century. The loss to the city was enormous, as these photos illustrate.

Look at all of the elms that lined Pearl St. near the top of the then aptly named Elmwood Avenue.