32.268

Print, Photographic, Photograph, Cabinet

1887

Bert Dye, Ed Everett, Mati Newell and Maggie McElroy. Material: paper. Size: 4 1/8" x 5 1/2". Description: black and white cabinet card photograph of two young women and two young men posed in a studio setting; identified (standing) Bert Dye holding a trumpet; (seated right) Ed Everett; Mati Newell holding a plumed hat (left); Maggie McElroy by guitar(center); background is painted backdrop of trees and a house, fake grass in foreground; on back of photo: "Waterville Bum" August 5, 1887"; photographed by E. J. Christman, Waterville, Minn.

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.