Boy Scout Merit Badges of Harold Mitchell. Material: textile. Size: 2" x 2". Description: 26 olive drab cotton twill unhemmed squares each with an embroidered logo representing the area of expertise for which the badge was awarded as detailed in the comment section of this record.

Waseca Boy Scout Leader with Walking Stick. Material: paper. Size: 2 3/4" x 5". Description: black and white photo of a jaunty looking man posed outdoors wearing high leather hiking boots, a leather jacket and a hat; he is wearing round glasses and leaning on a walking stick.

Evelyn Long and Dog. Material: paper. Size: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2". Description: black and white photo image of a young woman posed outdoors with a large dog; she is wearing a long winter coat and a cloche type hat, and identified as Evelyn Long.

Men's Club with Hazing or Initiation Paddles. (a, b) Material: paper. Size: 2 1/4" x 3 1/4". Description: a) 10 young men wearing three-piece suits are posed outdoors each holding a paddle. Harold Mitchell is the second person in the first row. (b) a line of about 7 young men are posed bending over with their backsides to the camera; another young man is posed holding a paddle on the far left.

Waseca High School Basketball Team of 1925. Material: paper. Size: 5" x 6 1/2". Description: black and white photo of a coach and ten young men wearing short uniforms; the two center men in the front row are holding a basketball labeled "'25"; the man on the left is Harold Mitchell; they are posed standing outdoors on the steps of the Waseca Central High School.

Young Waseca Men with Hockey Sticks. Material: paper. Size: 2 1/2" x 5". Description: black and white photo of five young men wearing winter sports gear; they are posed outdoors holding hockey sticks.

Harold Mitchell and Hockey Stick. Material: paper. Size: 2 1/2" x 4". Description: black and white photo of a young man wearing a dark suit and a helmet type cap; he is posed outdoors holding a hockey stick and with ice skates hanging around his his neck; identified as Harold Mitchell.

Waseca Senior Class Play Cast of 1925. Material: paper. Size: 2 1/2" x 3". Description: black and white photo of 14 young men and women posed on the steps of the Waseca Central High School; they are identified as the cast of characters in the senior class play "What Happened to Jones", 1925: Russel Spittler, Harold Mitchell, Clarence Juhnke, Roland Lorenz, Frank Leslie, Eugene Graham, Edward Iverson, Hilda Edwards, Evelyn Long, Lois Schultz, Lucile Weckwerth, Florence Roesler and Mabel Anders ... more

Waseca High School Basketball Player. Material: paper. Size: 2 1/2" x 4 1/4". Description: black and white photo of a single young man standing in front of the brick Central High School building; he is wearing the team uniform and holding a basketball labeled "'25" under his arm.

Coach Hargis. Material: paper. Size: 2 1/2" x 4 1/4". Description: black and white photo of a man posed standing on a city sidewalk; he is wearing a suit and overcoat and flat top hat; he is identified as Coach Hargis, Waseca High School.

Waseca High School Teacher Miss E. Oleson. Material: paper. Size: 2 1/2" x 4 1/4". Description: black and white photo of a young woman posed standing on a sidewalk with a white clapboard building in the background; she is wearing a long winter coat over her skirt and sweater and is identified as Miss E. Oleson.

Bea Webb and Dog. Material: paper. Size: 2 1/4" x 3 1/4". Description: black and white photo of a young woman wearing a dark summer dress and holding the front paws of a dog standing in front of her; she appears to be Beatrice Webb, the future Mrs. Harold Mitchell.

Waseca High School Commencement 1888. Material: paper. Size: 3 1/2" x 5". Description: pastel green copy paper folder with black front print: "Annual Commencement Waseca High School, Ward's Opera House, Friday Evening, June 8th, 1888"; inside information includes program items; reverse lists class motto and graduates Harding, Killiam, Lowell, Smith, Vath, Wyman, Bennett, Dacy, Gibson, Lavelle, Paulson and Thompson.

Waseca High School Commencement 1889. Material: paper. Size: 4" x 5 1/2". Description: white paper folder with black print; front information: "Annual Commencement Waseca High School at Ward's Opera House, Tuesday Evening, June 11th, 1889"; inside contains program items, class motto and names of the graduates: Bennett, Latham, Pierce, Sweet, Ward, Hanson, Oleson and Pugh.

Waseca High School Commencement 1885. Material: paper. Size: 4 1/4" x 5 1/4". Description: white paper folder with black print; front information: "Commencement Exercises of Waseca High School Friday Evening, June 26, 1885, Ward's Opera House, 8 o'clock"; inside information contains the program list by Gatzman, Hawkes, Burke, Van Orden, Nettie Miller, Madigan, Buchler, Sudduth, Tallon, Devany, Dye and Strong with diploma presentations by Pres. B. S. Lewis; reverse side lists instructors Hartl ... more

Waseca High School Commencement 1925. Material: paper. Size: 5" x 6 1/2". Description: white paper folder with black print; front printed information: "1925 The Senior Class of the Waseca High School announces the Commencement Exercises Thursday evening, May 28 at eight o'clock Central School Auditorium"; inside information includes calendar of senior events, class colors, flower, motto, officers and honors, commencement program and class roll; among the graduates is Harold Mitchell.

Waseca High School Graduation Exercises 1927. Material: paper. Size: 5" x 7 1/4". Description: white card stock with black printed information; front print: "The Senior Class of the Waseca High School announces the forty-eighth annual Graduation Exercises Central High School Auditorium Friday, June third, Nineteen twenty-seven Waseca, Minnesota"; inside information includes senior calendar of events, class colors, flower, motto, officers and honors, the graduation program and class roll; amon ... more

Waseca State High School Commencement 1905. Material: paper. Size: 4 1/4" x 6". Description: white paper folder with black print; front page information: "Perseverance Conquers, Twenty-Second Commencement of Waseca State High School, Ward's Opera House June 5, 1905"; front graphic of the Minnesota state seal; inside information: program items with an oration by Henry Gallagher and presentation of diplomas by Hon. Peter McGovern; reverse side information includes list of Board members Cummings ... more

Waseca High School Baccalaureate Services 1925. Material: paper. Size: 4 1/2" z 6 1/4". Description: white paper with black print; front page information: "Baccalaureate Services Class of 1925, Sunday Evening, May twenty-fourth, School Auditorium"; inside information includes the program items, sermon by Methodist-Episcopal Church Rector, Charles Brandon; reverse side lists the class roll including Harold Mitchell.

Waseca Knights of Honor Membership Card. Material: paper. Size: 4 1/2" x 6". Description: white paper folder with black print; front information: "Knights of Honor, Our Motto 'Honor Bound', Our Aim 'Do What's Right, Come What May', list of officers: Reineke, Wyman, Graham, Irwin, Fell and Harold Mitchell and a list of enrollment; green holiday sticker in corner of a green evergreen bell with red print,"Merry Christmas"; inside folder is blank.

Methodist-Episcopal Church Financial Statement 1901. Material: paper. Size: 3 3/4" x 6 1/2". Description: white paper with black bordered print: "Financial Statement, Methodist Episcopal Church, G. H. Quigley, Pastor, Waseca Minnesota 1900-1901"; inside information includes names of church members and contributors with the amounts of their gifts; member list includes Lorin Wood and George Webb; salaries of the pastor and elder included; reverse side shows photo of the original Methodist Episc ... more

Methodist Episcopal Church Minnesota Conference 1904. Material: paper. Size: 5 1/2" x 8". Description: white paper folder with illustration of the presiding conference bishop, J. W. Hamilton and front page print "Minnesota Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church Fiftieth Session, Waseca, Minn., Sept. 27-Oct. 3, 1904"; inside information includes program events over the course of the conference days; one sermon given to the group by Rev. A. T. Foster of Janesville; photo of old Methodist ... more

Waseca Boy Scouts Promotion. Material: paper. Size: 5 3/4" x 9". Description: white paper folder with black print; front information: "Midwinter Promotion Day Waseca Boy Scouts, Waseca, Minnesota, Monday Evening February 11, 1924 with a scout motto; inside information includes the program events and the banquet menu; reverse side lists officers Hodgson, Gutfleisch and Peterson, Court of Honor members Everett, Herter, Watson, Norton, Assistants Fowler, Gallagher, Brandon, Starr, Robertson, Har ... more

Waseca High School Commencement 1925. Material: paper. Size: 5" x 6 1/2". Description: white paper folder with black printed information; front page print: "The Class of Nineteen Hundred Twenty-five, Commencement Exercises, Waseca High School, Thursday, May Twenty-Eighth, School Auditorium"; inside information includes class colors, flower, motto, officers Spittler, Cottingham and Mitchell and Class honors to Ernest Gerdts and Russell Spittler, program sequence with address by Dr. Ross Finney ... more

First English Lutheran Church Directory 1923. Material: paper. Size: 4 1/2" x 7". Description: brown cover; black print: "Official Directory and Hand Book, 1923, First English Lutheran Church, Rev. A. Elmer Moe, Pastor, Waseca, Minn."; 16 pages.