2499

Album, Autograph

1890

Lydia Bluhm's Autograph Book. Material: paper. Size: 8" x 5 1/8". Description: black tooled leather cover with gold embossed lettering on front cover: "Autographs"; inside handwritten inscription: "A present from Miss Emelia Rosenau"; autographs dating 1891 to Lydia Bluhm, later Mrs. W. M. Cory, an early Waseca County doctor's wife.

Mrs. Kanwischer was a resident of Waseca. In the fall of 1969, she became a resident of a nursing home. Items were brought to the museum by her guardian, Frank Papke. Mr. Papke was president of the Waseca County Historical Society in 1969.