26.81.5
Postcard, Photographic
1890 Approximate
EACO Flour Mill and Loon Lake. 5-1/2" x 3-1/2" black and white postcard photograph of buildings reflected in water, identified as EACO Milling Co., Waseca, Minn. beside Loon Lake and a railroad track of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad; postcard published by Bloom Bros Co. #8768. Note that the water tower exists behind the mill buildings, and the tallest building of the mill complex has a peaked rooftop indicating date of photograph 1890 or earlier. First mill fire was in 1891, also another fire in 1896. Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. C & NW Railroad. Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad. M & St. L Railroad. Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. C & NW Railroad. Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad. DM & E Railroad.
From the Jessie Clayton Collection (donor's mother).