Letter to the Family, Father, Mother and All the Rest from R. A. Conner of Montevideo, Chippewa, Minn. Material: paper. Size: 8" x 10" folded. Description: white lined paper, black ink handwriting on both sides; addressed to Dear Father and Mother and all the rest of the family and signed your neglectful daughter and sister, R. A. Conner; references made to having a Merry Christmas, children Dianthy (Diantha), Emery, Otto, Ulysses and the baby; moving to a house between the Chippewa and Minne ... more

Letter to Amanda Conner from Ella Dibble. Material: paper. Size: 5 1/4" x 11". Description: gray lined stationery written in dark gray ink, to Dear Friend Amanda, sent from Woodville, Minn on October 3, 1876 and written by Ella Dibble; references made to mother who suffers from lameness and toothache, Eva, Charlie working for Mrs. Wood, quilting, Eugene, a robbery, a corrupt country, grasshoppers, Mrs. Bendure died, Ann has a little son, blinds on the church, threshing, runaway oxen, Charlie ... more

Letter to Amanda Conner from Wilton School District #18 Treasurer Wightman and Envelope. Material: paper. (a) Letter. Size: 5" x 8". Description: white lined tablet paper dated Wilton, October 31, 1876 to Miss Amanda Conner. Message: I would like to enquire if you would like to take our school this winter, if you do please let us know by return mail, if you should like to take it give us your price. And Oblige, J. H. Wightman, Treasurer of Wilton School District No. 18.

Letter to Amanda Conner from Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. Educational Division. a,b,c

Letters to Amanda Conner from Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. Educational Division. Material: paper. (a) Letter. Size: 8" x 10 1/2". Description: white lined letterhead of Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., Publishers of The American Educational Series, Chicago, dated April 21, 1876; to Miss Amanda C. Conner, Blooming Grove, Minn.; message: "Madam, Replying to your postal card 17th Inst. Price of Spencerian Key is $1.50. Theory of Spencerian Penmanship, 40 c. Can send either by mail postpaid ... more

Ewert Family History Book. Material: paper, plastic, metal. Size: 11" x 12" x 4 1/4". Description: black vinyl three-ring binder with white title cover page: "The Ewerts of Kreis Demmin Near the Kummerrower Sea" with photo of the Kummerower Sea by Thomas Leesch. Contents: a compilation of names, families, stories with the purpose of discovering the Ewert families and endeavoring to reunite the Ewerts of Kreis Demmin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Prussia, a state within the modern day republic of ... more

Manny Beckman. Material: paper. Size: 3"x 4 3/4". black and white photograph of Manny Beckman.

Manny Beckman. Material: paper. Size: 5" x 7". color photograph of three men the middle man is identified as Manny Beckman.

Cheerleaders. Material: paper. Size: 4 1/2" x 6 1/2". six unidentified cheerleaders posed in a triangle.

Janesville High School Bears Booster Club Pennant. Material: paper; wood. Size: 8" x 17" pennant on a 16" L. wooden dowel. Description: gold heavy paper triangle imprinted with black: "Janesville High School Bears" and a graphic of a bear's head.

Janesville High School Bears Booster Club Button. Material: metal. Size: 2 1/2" diameter. Description: gold painted disk imprinted with black: "Bear's Are Winners, Paws Down", 82-83 Janesville Booster Club", bear paw graphic; pin on reverse; "Badge-a-Minit, LaSalle, Ill. 61301".

Janesville Button. Material: metal. Size: 2 1/2" diameter. Description: gold painted disk imprinted with black: "Where the Hell is Janesville?", Minnesota state outline graphic; pin on reverse; "Badge-a-Minit, LaSalle, Ill. 61301".

Janesville Golden Bears Booster Club Button and Ribbon. Material: metal, textile. Size: 2 1/2" diameter button, 2" x 8" ribbon. Description: gold painted disk imprinted with black: "Luv Ya Gold 1981-82 Janesville Booster", attached to black ribbon imprinted in gold, " Janesville Golden Bears" with bear head graphic and 3 gold stars; Minnesota state outline graphic; pin on reverse; "Badge-a-Minit, LaSalle, Ill. 61301".

Janesville Golden Bears Booster Club Button. Material: metal. Size: 3 1/2"" diameter. Description: gold painted disk imprinted with black: "Support the Bears 82" and a cartoon figure of a fan waving a pennant; pin on reverse.

Janesville Golden Bears Booster Club Button. Material: metal. Size: 2 1/2"" diameter. Description: gold painted disk imprinted with black: "Follow the Janesville Bear Trail to State 1983" and a basketball and hoop graphic; pin on reverse; stamped "Badge a Minit, LaSalle, Ill. 61301".

Janesville Golden Bears Booster Club Button. Material: metal. Size: 2 1/2"" diameter. Description: gold painted disk imprinted with black: "We're the Best 82-83 Forget the Rest" and a bear's head graphic; pin on reverse.

Portrait of a Young Man: Nissen-Hinton Family Collection. Material: paper. Size: 2 1/2" x 4". Description: sepia carte-de-visite showing a young man with wavy dark side-parted hair, mustache and sideburns, wearing a dark suit coat, white wing tip collared shirt and light colored bow tie; reverse side stamped information of the "A. S. Bagne Photography, P. O. Building, Waseca, Minn., small pictures, copies and enlargements to order".

Portrait of a Young Man: Nissen-Hinton Family Collection. Material: paper. Size: 2 1/2" x 4". Description: sepia carte-de-visite showing a young man with blond close-cropped hair, brush mustache and wearing a dark suit coat, white wing tip collared shirt and dark bow tie; reverse side stamped information, "H. Manderfeld's Fine Art Gallery, Waseca, Minn." with butterfly graphic.

Rural Alton Township School District #61 Commencement 1902. Oak Grove School Commencement 1902. Material: paper. Size: 5" x 7 1/4". Description: white paper; embossed on cover: "Commencement" and graphic of an owl holding a lantern, leaf design on bottom; black print inside: "Oak Grove School, District No. 61, June 13th, 1902"; Scholars and School Board listed inside. Scholars: Charley Baer; Oswald Baer; Bennie Baer; Lena Born; Emma Born; Ester Born; Liddie Born; Freddie Born; Louis Born; Fl ... more

Rural Freedom Township School District #52 Souvenir Booklet 1919. Material: paper and textile. Size: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2". Description: white cover; colored graphic of an eagle, American flag and a ship in the ocean; gold print: "School Souvenir, And the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. - Francis Scott Key"; mauve cotton string book binding; four pages inside; oval black and white photograph of a young woman attached to back side of fro ... more

Waseca High School Basketball Team, 1969. Material: paper. Size: 16" x 20". Description: colored photograph of the 1969 Waseca High School boys basketball team. Identified L-R: Kneeling coaches: Tink Larson, Joe Lynch, and Manny Beckmann; Managers: P. Neidt, S. Swenson, and C. Sybrandt; Standing: Mark Bartlet, Jim "Syb" Sybilrud, Roger Twisselman, James Corchran, S. Martin, Rolf Iverson, Jon "Big Jon" Wynemer, Eugene "Gene" Wood, Dennis "Denny" Born, Gary "Tilks" Theelke, William "Bill" Bauman, ... more

Waldorf Railroad Depot. Duluth, St. Cloud, Glencoe, and Mankato Railroad Depot. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Depot. Milwaukee Railroad Depot. Waldorf Railroad Depot Sign. Material: metal. Size: 14" x 53". Description: silver sheet metal sign hinged in center; black block letters spell Waldorf; silver chains for hanging.

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Martha Dunn. Material: paper. Size: 3 1/2" x 5". Description: black and white photo mounted on gray heavy pasteboard, oval framed with white mat.