75.13.5.15
Print, Photographic
1915 Approximate
Young Women at the Arlington Club House. Material: paper. Size: 2 1/2" x 4 1/4". Description: black and white photo of four young women posed seated on steps in front of a building identified as the Arlington Club House near Clear Lake, Waseca. Page 17 of album.
From the Luella and Marguerite Herbst collection. Donor, Joan Bierman is the donor of the Luella and Marguerite collection in 2013, and she is the granddaughter of their cousin, Bernie Bierman. Arlington Club was a young men's social club in Waseca at the turn of the 20th century. The club was organized about 1903 and disbanded after WWI in 1918. They met in the basement meeting room of the First National Bank at 100 North State Street, Waseca, Minn. See Waseca Journal - Radical 15 May 1918 for more information. The WCHS has the complete dinner set of china used by the club. Waseca organization: Arlington Club.