27.89.70

Postcard, Photographic

1914 Approximate

EACO Flour Mill Employees. Co-Workers at EACO Flour Mill. Material: paper. Size: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2". Description: black and white postcard photograph of nine women, friends and co-workers at the EACO Flour Mill, Waseca, Minn.standing outdoors, trees in background, leaves on the ground in foreground; identified L-R: Miss Babcock, Miss Bluhm, Hannah Hawkes, Miss Raymond, Miss Bronkright (sp), Miss Stelle, Miss Kurzbine, Miss Kotz, Miss Prinhel (sp), in October 1914; see album page 22.

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.