114.81.2

Print, Photographic

1920 Approximate

Arlington Club Members. Material: paper. Size: 7 1/2" x 9 1/2". Description: black and white photograph of the Arlington Club members at a social function; all dressed in dark suits and ties; room festively decorated. Photograph taken in the basement meeting room of the First National Bank at 100 North State Street, Waseca, Minn. Identified L-R: (front row) 1. ? Jacobson; 2. Bill Gutfleisch; 3. Bill Turnacliff; 4. Leo Fieberger; 5. Ed Kelly; 6. Merritt Hemingway; 7. Ed Staehlin; (second row) 1. Sam Johnson; 2. Dutch Kritzer; 3. Art Brisbane; 4. Dan Mahoney; 5. Ben Manthy; 6. George Grapp; 7. Bill Staehlin; 8. Van Wald; 9. Al Wobschall; 10. Thomeson or Thoreson; (third row) 1. Dr. Ben Gallagher; 2. Dr. Fred Prail (mayor); 3. William Rinehart Everett; 4. Bob Castor; 5. ? Jacobson (Variety store owner); 6. Cleve Turnacliff; 7. Ted Bilben; 8. Jim Dahle; (fourth row) 1. Carl Sommerstad; 2. Fred Gray; 3. Lewis Phillips; 4. ?; 5. Oscar Anderson; 6. ?; 7. Art Castor; 8. ?; 9. Clare Brisbane; 10. ?; 11. Frank Gallagher; 12. ? Bennett; 13. Bill Guyer; 14. Ned Brown; 15. Roy Frentz; 16. Roy Bell; photographed by Obermeyer, Waseca, Minn. See accession 66.01.172.

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: Obermeyer Photography. Waseca business: First National Bank. Waseca organization: Arlington Club.