66.01.147

Print, Photographic

1904 Approximate

William Rinehart Everett on Horseback Led by Unknown Man. Waseca Main Street. Waseca State Street. Material: paper. Size 2 1/2" x 3 5/8". Description: black and white photograph of William Rinehart Everett riding a horse being led by an unidentified man on main street Waseca; there is street activity including a boy on a bicycle, carriages, people walking along the boardwalk, stores and awnings across the street. (Album 2 photo 37b)

The donor is the great-grandson of William Everett, co-founder with Aughenbaugh, of the E. A. Co 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 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.