27.89.33

Postcard, Photographic

1908

Crowd at Waseca County Fair. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" black and white postcard photograph of a scene at the Waseca County Fair, September 1908; several women are posed with their umbrellas, a horse-drawn buggy, left foreground; the judges stand on the right; spectators are all watching a tight-rope act, a man, identified as Gus Henderson, is balanced on a wire using a long horizontal bar to help with balance; photographed by A. Kloss, Waseca, Minn.; see album page 9.

Album cover and binding in poor condition; photographs and postcards in excellent condition; many color lithographed postcards; black and white photo postcards are in excellent condition. Only Waseca photographs scanned into collection and start with Accession 27.89.15; donor, Anne Olson, bought the Hawkes home at 607 N. State St., Waseca, and found this album in the home. Hannah Hawkes was the sister of Charlie Hawkes. Hannah worked as the secretary to E. A. Everett at the EACO Mill.