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Print, Photographic, Digital

1894 Approximate

Maplewood Park Guests. 6 1/2" x 4 1/2" black and white photograph of a scene in Maplewood Park beside one of the cottages, of 9 people; photograph titled, "100 degrees in the shade in Maplewood Park"; identified L-R: Mrs. D. S. Cummings (Martha or Mattie Ward), Charles Ward, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, Florence Ward Watson, Percy Ward and Daisy Ward; child unidentified; some of the people are holding fans, sitting on wooden chairs, one woman is sitting on a tree hammock; Jerry the horse is hitched to a carriage in background; other cottages are visible.

Found in collection with note written on torn inside cover, "1971, to Waseca County Historical Society, from Wm. G. Cummings; pictures taken by my father, Dr. Damon S. Cummings in the late 1890s; (signed) W. G. Cummings; photographs of members of the Ward family, Trowbridge family, Everett family, Watson family.