66.01.149

Print, Photographic

1909 Approximate

William Rinehart Everett with Constance Everett on His Lap. 4" x 6" sepia portrait of William Rinehart Everett (1891-1943) and his sister Constance (1902-1972) in a formal portrait setting; William is wearing a tweed three-piece suit; Constance is wearing a white dress with large white bow in her curly hair. Both are somber in expression, as this may have been taken the year their mother, Nettie, was killed in a train crash in Mexico (1909). (Album 2 photo 39a)

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.