70.17.21 hh
Print, Photographic
1910
Elias Larson on Bicycle. Material: paper. Size: 2 1/2" x 2 3/4". Description: black and white snapshot of a young man standing with his bicycle; he is wearing a wide brimmed hat and a bag is mounted on the bicycle handlebars; a mailbox is in foreground and telephone poles in background; identified as Elias Larson, August 1910; a fragment of the note on the reverse: "Waseca, Minn. Aug. 8, 1910, This will remind you of the dusty roads of summer..."
Elias Larson worked as a rural mail delivery man in the early 1900s and this photo may show him on his route. Located in Album #70.17.36