66.01.157

Print, Photographic

1909 Approximate

William Rinehart Everett Wearing a Pith Helmet and Posed by a River Suggesting India. 3 1/4" x 2 1/2" black and white photograph of William Rinehart Everett posed standing beside a river in an unidentified foreign country. The context of the album's other photos suggest India, but that is not specifically identified. (Album 2 photo 47c)

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.