1.99.1886

Postcard, Photographic

1910 Approximate

Arlington Club Banquet. Material: paper. Size: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2". Description: black and white postcard photograph of a large group of young men in suits and ties posed around banquet tables; overhead sign: "Arlington Club;" garlands decorate walls; coats and hats lie on pool table in foreground. Photograph taken in basement meeting room of the First National Bank at 100 North State Street, Waseca, Minn.; photographed by F. Obermeyer, Waseca, Minn. Identified L-R: John Tofel; Jack Coughlin; Harry Roesler; Carl Knutson; Harold Hagerty; Joe Cleary; Leon Peterson; George Wyman; Ray Roesler; Harry Roesler; (right, sitting) Clarence Senske; Robert Wyman; unidentified; Bill Manthey; Gus Galligan; Bill Stahlen, Art Johnson; Al Van Wald; Henry Gallagher; Bill Everett; (right, standing) Tony Stucky; Ted Georgas; Paul Stucky; George McCall; Chas. Brozik; Leon Brozik, Mr. Conway; Jerry Johnston, Harvey Wolf, (another) Conway; Gus Miller; Harold Arentson; Frank Conway.

Arlington Club was a young men's social club in Waseca at the turn of the 20th century. The club was organized about 1903 and disbanded after WWI in 1918. They met in the basement meeting room of the First National Bank at 100 North State Street, Waseca, Minn. See Waseca Journal - Radical 15 May 1918 for more information. The WCHS has the complete dinner set of china used by the club. Waseca business: First National Bank. Waseca organization: Arlington Club.