E. H. Smith Family Photograph Album. 15" x 11 1/2" photograph album with ivory blind embossed Art Deco cover, with word "Photographs" at center; black album pages filled with family and friends of E. H. Smith, Waseca resident; Smith owned the Waseca Hotel (originally the Sheridan House, then the Waverly Hotel) in the 1920s; included are many photographs of family members in front of the hotel on South State Street; Earle J. Smith, son of E. H. Smith, graduated from MacPhail School of Music and studied with Eddie Dinstedder; Earle Smith played the pipe organ at the Broadway Theater in Albert Lea, Minn. for many years; his wife was Gretchen; his daughter was Catherine Jane Smith, known as Kay or Kate, married Earl Kahnke.
