36.89.2

Print, Photographic

1917

World War I Enlistees. 10" x 7 1/4" black and white photograph; group of 51 young men enlisted into World War I military service; posed outside Waseca County Courthouse; front caption: "Left Sept. 22, 1917, Waseca, Minn."; some identified: August Bluhm, William H. Crandell, William M. Conner, Claude J. Case, Louis R. Dossett, Edward W. Doberstein, Clifford Dossett, Carl W. Elton, Otto G. Felske, Daniel J. Holton, Henry Hoffman, William J. Janke, Arthur A. Johnson, Herman Krienke, Emil O. M. Kukuk, Rhinold E. Krienke, Alfred M. Larson, Frank A. Lamb, Edward Martinson, Theodore A. Mittelsteadt, Joseph P. McDermott, Louis C. Radtke, John F. Rietforts, John F. Roeske, Bernhart D. Schlaak, Erich B. Schendel, Bennie C. Schultz, Emil C. Schlie, Bernhard G. Tolzmann, J. F. Wallschlaeger, Daniel H. Weckwerth, and Guy B. Whiting. Back row left to right: 1. ?, 2. ?, 3. ?, 4. ?, 5. Lewis John Priebe, 6. ?, 7. ?, 8. Emil Kukuk. Men unidentified, names in random order: Herman Jacob Lossman, William John Janke, Emil Otto Kukuk, Lewis John Preibe, Louis Carl Radtke, George Henry Zeiter, Lawrence Ernest Schwanke, Erick Reinhold Schendel, Lawrence Melvin Anderson, Harry A. Smith, Guy B. Whiting, Theodore W. Mittlesteadt, Edward Martinson, Rinhold E. Kreinke, Walter Hardy, Bennie Charlie Schultz, Carl Milan Elton, John Breenean, Arthur A. Johnson, Franklin Alfred Lamb, Bernard Kurt G. Tolzman, Benhart David Schlack, Daniel H. Weckwerth, William Herbert Crandall, Herman Kreinke, Alfred M. Larson, Andrew M. Larson, Andrew Frederick Borgen, Thompson Crabtree, Alvin Fred Carl Kramer, Herman Fischer, Emil Schlie, August Charles Rudolph, Clifford Byron Dossett, Oscar Fred Ketchemann, Guy Henry Pitmon, William Connor, Walter Wm. F. Laudert, Louis Fred Bartelmehs, Harry Allen Richardson, Malcolm T. Fitzsimmons, Otto Gustav Kalske, Claude Case, Timothy Donohue, August Henry Wm. Bluhm, John Frederick Reitforts, Oscar Selmer Martinson, Edward Dobberstein, Joseph F. Walschlaeger, Charl Hanson, Benjamin Dexter Morton, Jr., Louis Ray Dossett, Alamander Cole.

Waseca business: Kopman Photography. Geo Kopman, photographer; These men were trained at Fort Dodge, IA and New Mexico; then served in combat duty in France and Germany. Waseca County's first detachment of the New National Army to be called to the service. They lined up outside the Court House on the afternoon before their departure. Harry Read, Civil War Veteran, is standing on the far left in the back row.