37.01.2g
Print, Photographic
1949 Approximate
August and Charlotte Koentopp. 2 1/8" x 3" black and white photograph of the elderly parents of Arthur Koentopp, August and Charlotte Koentopp, married October 26, 1898. August died in 1950; Charlotte died in 1961, both in Waseca County.
This artifact is from a collection of photographs, letters, maps and greeting cards from the estate of Arthur Koentopp, a farmer who lived with his brother, Herman Koentopp, in Iosco Township. Both were WWII veterans; Arthur died July 10, 1972 at his home; Herman died in a Janesville fire on November 21, 1978. The donor Rod Joyce worked for many years in the Waseca County Recorder's Office, and then the Waseca County Treasurer's Office.