LU32.52

Postcard, Photographic

1908

High Wire Performer at Fair. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" black and white postcard photograph of a man performing a wire act at the Waseca County Fair, Sept. 1908; the man is attempting to stand on his head while balancing on a wire about 15 feet in the air; notice handwritten note at left, "Take me away"; photographed by A. Kloss, Waseca, Minn.

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.