1.04.259

Print, Photographic

1918

Waseca County WWI Enlistees by Courthouse, August 6, 1918. Material: paper. Size: 8 3/4" x 6 1/2". Description: black and white photograph of eight young men who just enlisted to serve in World War I; posed outside the Waseca County Courthouse; holding identical drawstring bags, and wearing ribbons on their lapel or shirt identifying them from Waseca County, Minn.; there is a Red Cross symbol in the window behind, on the right; photographed by Geo. Kopman; these men left Waseca on August 6, 1918; identified L-R: (front row) Ewald Sanders, John Luech, L. Sower or Sauer, Ewald Kuehn; (back row) Lester Lyons, Robert "Stub" Wyman, Waseca; Mr. Schueneman (from Janesville), William Stiehl. The names above were on the back of the photograph. The following names were in the newspaper: Robert Wyman, Waseca; George Inott, Waseca; Ewald J.C. Sanders, Waseca; Lester Clare Lyons, Waseca; Charles L. Sower, Morristown; John Fred Lueck, Janesville; John Julius Papke, Waseca; Frank Christ, Waseca; Alfred H. Born, Alma City; Jay T. White, Janesville; Louis Emil Arnoldt, Janesville. White print on front: "Left Aug. 6, 1918, Waseca, Minn."

Waseca business: Kopman Photography. Eight soldiers were called for to help fill up a shortage at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. A large crowd and the Waseca Band turned out to march them to the depot in spite of the rain storm at train time. Alfred H. Born of Alma City, left on the same train but was bound to join his group at Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina. Jay T. White of Waseca, and Louis Emil Arnoldt, of Janesville, left for Syracuse, New York in response to a call for special military service.