27.89.85

Postcard, Photographic

1910 Approximate

W. J. Armstrong Wholesale Grocer Building. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" black and white postcard photograph of the front and south side of the W. J. Armstrong Co. Wholesale Grocers building, Waseca, Minn.; sign at rear of building just above railroad cars: ACO Bottling Works; Chicago & Northwestern railroad cars are parked beside the building, one car is marked "Vegetable Car"; photographed by Bellew, Waseca, Minn.; see album page 28. This building is on the National Register of Historic Sites. Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. C & NW Railroad.

Waseca business: Armstrong Co. Wholesale Grocers; ACO Bottling Works. 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.