2.01.23
Print, Photographic, Photograph, Cabinet
1900 Approximate
Baby Portrait by Lawin of Waseca. 3 3/4" x 5 1/2" black and white oval portrait of a baby, identified in pencil on back only "Kinn", maybe "Esther", "Waseca"; pencil is light and other illegible scribbling barely visible; child is about one year old; wearing white lacy christening gown, posed sitting in an ornate wicker chair; photographed by A. J. Lawin, Waseca, Minn.; photo mounted on black oversize matboard which has been bent in half horizontally, image otherwise in good condition.
Donated by Dakota City Heritage Village, Farmington, MN 55024, (Dakota County); collection of 32 photographs were originally donated to them by Bob Curtis, a descendant of the Olson and Kinn families of Lakeville; and other unknown relatives in Waseca.