LU32.19

Print, Photographic

1909

Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen #139. Material: paper. Size: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2". Description: black and white photograph of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen #139; pictured are 11 men seated in one row on wooden chairs against a wall with the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen #139 Model Train in background; model includes engine #139, coal car and caboose all on model train tracks. Markings on the train model read, "B. R. R. T., R. 1 139 S. Sanborn, 139, Waseca." Photographed by Mellby Photography, Waseca, Minn. See accession 1.00.697 and 1.00.746.

Waseca business: Mellby Photography. Waseca organization: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (B.R.R.T.), Sanborn, 139, Waseca. The donor is the great-grandson of William Everett, co-founder with Aughenbaugh, of the EACO Mill in Waseca County. The Everett home, built by William's son Edward Everett, overlooking the east end of Clear Lake, was a showplace in its time, a classic Victorian-style home, it was demolished in 1958 it was an architectural and historical loss to Waseca County. This collection of photographs from Willard Everett is donated under our "Loaned to Us" program, where the donor allows WCHS to scan the images, but donor keeps possession of the original photographs. This photo is from one of the Everett family albums, one entirely devoted to documenting the childhood of William Rinehart Everett, son of E. A. and Nettie Everett, and the donor's father. William R. Everett was born in Waseca, Minn., on May 13, 1891.