51.15.48

Print, Photographic

1920 Approximate

Arlington Club Members Posed by Car. Material: paper. Size: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2". Description: black and white photo postcard showing six young men posed standing and seated by an automobile of the era; pennants and signs in view: "Party at the Arlington Club Tonight"; "Spirit Lake" and "Winnebago"; William Rinehart Everett is fourth from the left, and others are likely Carl "Barley" Thorsen, Merriett Hemingway and Bob Castor; message on reverse: "Waseca-Everyone is happy. M. W. Hemingway". See accession 66.01.167 for more information.

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.