Sophie, Herman, Ella and Frederick Lewer. 3 7/8" x 5 1/2" black and white photograph of Sophie Lewer, Herman Lewer, Ella Lewer, and baby Frederick Lewer.

Leonard and Alvin Lewer. 3 3/4" x 5 1/2" black and white photograph of Leonard Lewer (left) and brother, Alvin Lewer (right) additional brothers of children in Accession # LU28.17; photographed by Schindler's Studio, New Richland, Minn.

Gary Tetzloff. Material: paper. Size: 4" x 7 1/8". Description: black and white glossy photograph; Gary Tetzloff and three other officers in uniform posed for newspaper photo; reverse side notation: "Gary Tetzloff is honored."

Purple Heart Award. 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" black and white photograph; woman wearing light suit and man in uniform; posed with woman accepting the Purple Heart military award from a uniformed officer; reverse side notation identifies site as El Toro (Santa Ana) California. "Official U. S. Marine Corps photography"

Veteran's Day Program at Courthouse Cannon Monument. Material: paper. Size: 2 3/4" x 6 3/8". Description: black and white glossy photograph; Waseca American Legion Post and VFW men; posed in uniform standing at attention and holding flags at Veteran's Day service on the grounds of the Waseca County courthouse beside cannon monument; one veteran speaking from a microphone on the right; in background is the Sheriff's residence / Sheriff's Office and Waseca County Jail in the converted house tha ... more

Veteran Gary Tetzloff, American Legion and Red Cross Men. Material: paper. Size: 2 3/4" x 4 1/4". Description: black and white photograph; two men in business suits, two in military uniform; Waseca American Legion Post #228 member and Red Cross sergeant; posed with all men looking at a plaque held by center man.

World War I Military Men. Material: 2 1/8" x 3 1/4". Description: black and white photograph; two men in Navy uniform and two men in Army uniform; posed standing outdoors with the Army men holding flags and the Naval holding rifles; car of the era parked next to the curb near soldiers.

Memorial Day Waseca. Material: paper. Size: 4" x 4". Description: black and white photograph; members of the U. S. Army, U. S. Navy, American Legion, VFW march south on North State Street at a Memorial Day parade; Stucky's Drug Store in background; spectators on sidewalks; people in parked cars.

Catherine Prechel Daehn in Newspaper Dress and Crown. 3 1/8" x 5 1/2" black and white photograph of Catherine Elsie (Prechel) Daehn as a young woman; known as Elsie Daehn; also C. Elsie Daehn; shown here as full-length portrait dressed in a "newspaper dress" made from folded Waseca Journal newspapers; she is holding a paper banner imprinted: "The Journal".

Busy Bee Cafe Token. Material: wood. Size: 1 1/2" diameter. Description: wooden disk - black printing across front: "Busy Bee Cafe, Waseca, MN, 507-835-9908 and border printed: "Warm Up Your Mornings At.." - reverse side: offer for one free cup of coffee.

Railroad Train Engine and Blizzard of 1909. Material: paper. Size: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2". Description: black and white postcard photograph; men wearing overcoats observe two railroad locomotives moving through the snow blocked tracks; captioned: "almost through".

Wedding Portrait: Stankiewicz and Bickell. 4" x 6" black and white wedding photograph; young woman wearing long white, straight skirted gown and shoulder length veil; young man wearing dark suit; posed standing with church altar in background; identified as Larry Bickell and Barbara Jo Stankiewicz married July 6, 1968; photographed by the Crawford Studio, Waseca, Minn.

Wedding Portrait: Bjerke and Cole. 4" x 5 1/2" black and white wedding photograph; young woman wearing white floor length gown; young man in dark suit; identified as Debra Bjerke and Doug Cole, dated April 20; posed standing in front of altar at Grace Lutheran Church, by Crawford Studio, Waseca, Minn.

Henry and Margaret Bluhm Family Portrait. 8" x 6 1/4" black and white photograph of the Bluhm family in 1890; identified L-R: (back row) Christian Bluhm, Frederick Bluhm, Mary Bluhm, Emma Bluhm, and August Bluhm; (front row) Louis Bluhm, Henry W. Bluhm, Henry Bluhm and Margaret Bluhm (parents) and Herman Bluhm.

Herman Kuehnel and Horses. 7 1/2" x 5 1/4" black and white photograph of Herman Kuehnel and horses he took care of for construction company in Waseca, Minn.; circa 1930s.

Herman Kuehnel. 2" x 3" black and white photograph of Herman Kuehnel, as a police officer, in the 1920s, for Waseca, Minn.; posed standing on a street corner in 3-piece suit and hat and wearing his badge.

Edna Kuehnel Nelson and Bubbles Kuehnel Cunningham. 2 1/2" x 4 1/8" black and white photograph of the Kuehnel sisters, (left) Edna Kuehnel Nelson and Adeline "Bubbles" Kuehnel Cunningham (wife of Slim Cunningham, Waseca Fire Chief, who died in a fire.); they were daughters of Herman and Gertrude Koehnel; standing in back yard of house in Waseca.

Kuehnel Family. 4" x 3" black and white photograph of Gertrude Kuehnel and children; identified L-R: (back row) Gertrude Kuehnel, Ethel Kuehnel, Harold Kuehnel, an unidentified woman; (front) Jim Kuehnel, Edna Kuehnel, Leonard Kuehnel, and Ralph Kuehnel, in Waseca in the 1920s.

Ma Smith and Mrs. Harold Kuehnel. 4" x 2 1/4" black and white photograph of (center) Ma Smith, owner of the Waverly Hotel from about 1925-1928) standing with an unidentified girl on left, and Mrs. Harold Kuehnel (Attracta Cunningham) on the right outside the south side of the hotel.

Gertrude Kuehnel. 2 1/8" x 3 1/8" black and white photograph of Gertrude Kuehnel standing in her back yard in Waseca; wife of Herman Kuehnel.

Herman Kuehnel Family. 3 1/2" x 2 7/8" black and white photograph of the Herman Kuehnel family in 1928; identified L-R: (center) Herman Kuehnel (father) and Gertrude Kuehnel (mother); (back row) Ralph Kuehnel, Herman James "Jim" Kuehnel, and Ethel Kuehnel; (front row) Leonard Kuehnel, Adeline Kuehnel, and Edna Kuehnel.

Quanbeck Family History. Material: paper. Size: 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" x 3/4". Description: white glossy card stock cover, front color photo graphic of farmstead, black print: Dear Papa, This is What We Did, A Quanbeck Family Journey; back cover photo of author Kirjah Quanbeck Franz; contents: 250 numbered pages with individual chapters on father Halvor Quanbeck, mother Caroline Quanbeck and each of their children: Sverre, Hazel, Thor, Caleb, Cora, Irving, Clemens, Kirjah, Herman, Elmer and Gordon; ... more

Waseca Power House and Smokestack in Color. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" postcard photograph of the Power House at Waseca, Minn., showing a one-story brick building beside a smokestack and a water tower. Backside addressed to "Mr. I. Jenkins, Smiths Mill, Minn." Note dated February 12 (no year), " Dear Folks, All well as usual. Baby likes your hulled corn pretty good. Love to all and come down when you can. (signed) Pansy; "H. A. Panzram, Waseca, Minn." stamped on back.

Judy Kozan for Mayor Pin. Material: metal. Size: 2 1/4" diameter. Description: white plasticized disk with blue lettering across front: "Elect Judy Kozan Mayor of Waseca"; blue print around edge: "Paid for by Citizens for Judy Kozan, Steve Manthe, Chair, 2101 N.E. 5th Circle, Waseca, MN Jackie Rifenbergh, Treasurer."

Wedding Portrait: Frodl and Hruska. 4" x 6" black and white photograph; young woman wearing white floor length gown and young man wearing dark suit; identified as Frodl and Hruska; photographed by Crawford Studio, Waseca, Minn.