LU168.169

Photograph, Glass Plate, Digital

1920 Approximate

Edwin Verplank in His Tire Shop. Digital scan of glass plate photo. Description: a man identified as Edwin Verplank is wearing dark work clothes and a hat; he stands with one foot up on a step with his hand resting on a tire in his vulcanizing shop; more tires are displayed in the background.

A collection of glass plate images were found in the old New Richland Faust Theater and given to the New Richland Area Historical Society; these images were projected to theater audiences in the 1930s and 1940s; the images were scanned into the Waseca County Historical Society Collection as well as the state of Minnesota Reflections collection in 2011 and 2012. Also can be see on compact disk 27.20 or 28.20 in M.11-Drawer B.5-Folder 62.