36.09

Print, Photographic

1937

Peter Georgas on Elm Avenue. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" hand-tinted photograph of young boy identified as Peter Georgas, holding a string of perch (fish); standing on west Elm Avenue just west of the Crystal Cafe on corner behind him at State Street in Waseca, MN.; wearing overalls and sweater. His father's 1936 Nash, purchased at Priebe's is visible parked on curb at right.

Waseca business: Crystal Cafe. The donor's father, Theo Georgas, born in Haraka, Greece, migrated first to New York in 1908 and then to Minneapolis where he worked in candy stores and restaurants; he opened his own store and cafe in Waseca in 1916. He left Waseca after his business was burned out in the State Street fire of 1942. See Georgas Family File in the WCHS Bailey Research Library.