3 7/8 x 5 1/2" black and white portrait; Captain Vial; Co F, 12th Minn., 1898.
"Monk" Ellingston, Co., K, 12th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry in Georgia. 5 1/2 x4" black and white photograph; "Monk" Ellingston, Co. K, 12th Minn. Volunteer Infantry; sitting on a log surrounded by several young African-American children outside of their home; near Chickannauga Park, Georgia, 1898.
Two Black Boxers in a Tennessee Training Camp During the Spanish American War. 5" x 4" black and white photograph of two African American men boxing with infantrymen watching. On the back, a note reads, "Rastus, with long pants, boxing with another colored boy before a group of Spanish War Training Camp soldiers in Tenn. "Rastus" (surname unknown) came with the Waseca Company as mascot and remained about town for some time after mustering out."
Spanish American War Minnesota Volunteers. 8 1/2" x 6" black and white photograph; 1898 Co."K", 12th Minnesota Infantry Volunteers, Chickamauga Park, Georgia; hand numbered on front and identified as: 1) Capt. Walter Child, 2) Lt. James Sheehan, 3) Sgt. Geo. Stowe, 4) Sgt. Arthur E. Ward, 5) Mus. Harry Gullann (sp), 6) Mus. L. Dibble, 7) Corp. Peter McLin, 8) Corp. ?, 9) Sgt. Joe Dunn, 10) Sgt. Elmer Durston, 11) Eli Davis, 12) Fred Willsey, 13) Irving Hale, 14) Corp. Wm. Reynolds, 15) "Monk" E
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6 1/2" x 4 1/2" black and white photograph of nine men who sold war bonds in Blooming Grove Township during World War I; identified L-R: (back row) Justice Reinhardt, John Curran, George Boucher, Bill Karsten, Louis Fretham; (front row) E.O. Engebretson, Ed Reineke, Nels Breck and Bill Hackett.
World War I Enlistees. 10" x 7 1/4" black and white photograph; group of 51 young men enlisted into World War I military service; posed outside Waseca County Courthouse; front caption: "Left Sept. 22, 1917, Waseca, Minn."; some identified: August Bluhm, William H. Crandell, William M. Conner, Claude J. Case, Louis R. Dossett, Edward W. Doberstein, Clifford Dossett, Carl W. Elton, Otto G. Felske, Daniel J. Holton, Henry Hoffman, William J. Janke, Arthur A. Johnson, Herman Krienke, Emil O. M. Kuku
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World War I Enlistees by Courthouse. 9 3/4" x 6" black and white photograph of a large group of men, 76, posed outside the Waseca County Courthouse (This building is on the National Register of Historic Sites.) before leaving for military service in World War I; written in white lettering on front, "Left Feb. 25, 1918 Waseca, Minn."; photographed by George Kopman, Waseca, Minn. Men unidentified, names in random order: Lemick Arthur Larson, Edward John Herman Jeddeloh, Milton Harold Mahler, Fran
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8 1/2" x 5 1/2" black and white photograph mounted on cardboard; group of young men enlisted into World War I military service; posed outside Waseca County Courthouse; front caption: "Left Feb 25, 1918, Waseca, Minn."
Group of young men enlisted into World War I military service; posed outside Waseca County Courthouse; front caption: "Left February 25, 1918 Waseca, Minn." 4" x 2 1/2"
9 1/4" x 7 1/8" black and white photograph; group of young men enlisted into World War I military service; posed outside Waseca County Courthouse; front caption: "Left April 7, 1918, Waseca, Minn."
9 1/2" x 7" black and white photograph; group of young men enlisted into World War I military service; posed outside Waseca County Courthouse; front caption: "Left April 30, 1918, Waseca, Minn." Men unidentified, names in random order: Elof Anderson, John Michaelson, John Neuendorf, Lawrence Fell, George Albert Carpenter, Johannes Edwin Markus Frankson, Charles E. Beetsch, Adolph Theodore Martinson, Oscar Rubin Tolin, Benjamin Gustave Frank, Gust Koerbitz, Jess Montgomery, Luie Edmund Tietz, Car
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Waseca County Men, World War I Enlistees. Material: paper. Size: 9 1/2" x 7". Description: black and white photograph; one small boy and a group of young men enlisted into World War I military service; posed outside Waseca County Courthouse; front caption:, "Left May 2, 1918, Waseca, Minn." Men unidentified, names in random order: Adolph Walden, Waseca; August A. Billing, New Richland; Ross Marple, New Richland; Oliver Guilbert, Waseca; Max Opstein, Waseca; Herbert Krause, Waseca; John Abraha
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1910 Normal Training Class Waseca. 8" x 5" black and white photograph; Normal Training Class of Waseca Central High School; group of young women and two young men seated with a teacher in a classroom.
People Near the LeSueur River. 5" x 7" black and white photograph; people wading in and people sitting on the banks of the LeSueur River, Waseca County.
6" x 4" black and white photograph taken Fall of 1945, in front of the Arche de Triumph, Paris, France; Battery "A", 741 F. A. Bn. Warren E. Schultz, Tech 4; front row, third from left; from Waseca, Minn. WWII
Frank Wiplinger and Louis Bauer, "M" Co., 28th Infantry. 5 x 4" black and white photo print on a 9" x 7" cardboard mount; Frank Wiplinger and Louis P. Bauer in military uniform; Spanish American War soldiers; "M" Co., 28th Infantry. Manila P.I."
Tom Davis, Co. K, 12th Minnesota Infantry. 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" black and white photograph; Tom Davis, Co. K, 12th Minnesota Infantry; pictured in uniform, holding rifle in a camp setting.
Spanish American War Veterans. 10" x 8" black and white photograph; 50th Anniversary Reunion of the Spanish American War Veterans, held at the Waseca VFW Club; identified around the table, L-R: William Vernon, Ed Smith, Sidney Fritz, L. J. Lewies, Herman A. Panzram, Fred Wynnemer, Henry A. Shortell, Norm Ketchum, Bob Stewart, Albert Kurkowski, Henry Hofmeister, Henry Gasink, Art Ward, Ben Alton, Lee Abraham, Charles Sandness.
Local Liberty Loan Salesmen of World War I. 9 1/2" x 7" black and white photograph; First World War Liberty Loan Salesmen, L-R: (back row) Anton Stucky, George Witter, Art Tyrholm, A. J. Brisbane; (middle row) M. W. Hemmingway, Herman Kuehnel, L. F. Preston, Dr. E. Giltner, J. J. Cunningham, F. J. Conway, Herman Mittlesteadt, Anton Guyer, O. Didra, W. F. Witte; (front row) D. McLaughlin, M. E. Gardner, H. A. Peterson, E. J. Priebe, E. L. Larson, E. H. Smith, B. E. Dawson, E. W. Lewer.
Railroad Employees. 5" x 3" color photo copied from an old original photo of two unidentified railroad workers posing beside a handcar on the tracks; dressed in overalls, coats, gloves, boots, one man standing with shovel in hand.
4" x3" photo postcard of 5 men standing atop snow bank beside locomotive. No date.
4" x 3" photo postcard of 3 men standing in snow beside locomotive #623.
4" x 3" photo postcard of 5 railroad workers, wintertime, boxcars and grain buildings in background.
Railroad Depot. 5" x 7" black and white photograph of unidentified railroad employees inside the depot office, probably in Waseca; calendar dates it, November 1916.
Railroad Depot. 5" x 7" black and white photograph taken of the interior of a railroad depot office, likely Waseca; three men standing, employees, are unidentified.