1.00.756
Print, Photographic
1890 Approximate
Herman Panzram at a State Fair Crops Booth. 7 3/4" x 10" black and white photograph; Herman Panzram as a young man sitting at the Waseca booth at the Minnesota State Fair; pictures and actual samples of Waseca County crops, potatoes, corn, tomatoes, wheat, cucumbers, squash, onions, etc.; overhead signage lists $50 to $80 per acre for farmland; "The best flour mill in the state outside of Minneapolis. A dozen fine wooded lakes and one river. Twelve townships devided into 1800 fertile farms." The name "Waseca" spelled out in corncobs above the exhibit.
H. A. Panzram was born in 1877, Olmstead Co., served in Spanish-American War, teacher, Waseca Superintendent of Schools starting in 1904.