32.328

Print, Photographic

1885 Approximate

Bess Miller, Florence Ward, Jennie Aughenbaugh. 3 7/8" x 1 5/8" black and white photograph of three young girls posed together with a parasol or umbrella; identified L-R: Bess Miller (daughter of Rinehart Miller), Florence Ward, and Jennie Aughenbaugh (daughter of John Aughenbaugh).

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.