Poetry Collection. Material: paper and textile. Size: 4 3/4" W. x 6" L. Description: dark blue heavy stock cover - title on front cover in black print: "Leila's Rhymes" - pages bound with heavy string through center spine - includes poems written by author's mother: Leila Ebersol Hodgson and a black and white photo of the poet - photocopy of a note is folded inside book and lists: "Nellie Hodgson Olds and Charles Samuel Olds - Dorothy Olds with Calista and David Olds - George Hodgson Olds".

New Richland Centennial Plate. Material: ceramic. Size: 10 3/8" diameter. Description: white porcelain plate with gold border inset 1/2" around rim; black center illustration of main street, black lettering under picture: "New Richland, Minnesota, 1877 Centennial 1977"; black printing on back: "New Richland, Minnesota, 1909".

Material: paper. Size: 11" W. x 14" L. Description: pastel cover displays young woman's face in a round frame (most of cover torn away) - title: "The Ladies' Home Journal", November 1922 issue - 218 pages of articles, photos and ads.

Material: paper. Size: 8 1/2" W. x 11 3/4" L. Description: white with black and red printing - some color used on graphics throughout - cover page features young woman admiring a lily - printed across top banner: "The Rexall News, Vol. 1, No. 9, Mar. 1913" - other cover information: "Published monthly by Preston & Stucky, Waseca, Minnesota, The Rexall Store" and a list of special features found inside the eight pages.

Material: paper. Size: 8 1/2" W. x 11 3/4" L. Description: white with black and red printing - some color used on graphics throughout - cover page features young woman with braids seated and holding a spray of pussy willows - printed across top banner: "The Rexall News, Vol. 1, No. 10, April, 1913" - other cover information: "Published monthly by Preston & Stucky, Waseca, Minnesota, The Rexall Store" and a list contents found inside the eight pages.

Material: paper. Size: 8 1/2" W. x 11 3/4" L. Description: white with black and red printing - some color used on graphics throughout - cover page features young woman in profile with upswept, beribboned hairdo - printed across top banner: "The Rexall News, Vol. 1, No. 11, May 1913" - other cover information: "Published monthly by Preston & Stucky, Waseca, Minnesota, The Rexall Store" and a testimony to "The Subtle Scent of Bouquet Jeanice", claiming that this issue should still have the scent ... more

Material: paper. Size: 8 1/2" W. x 11 3/4" L. Description: white with black and red printing - some color used on graphics throughout - cover page features young woman in red headband playing the card game "solitaire" - printed across top banner: "The Rexall News, Vol. 1, No. 12, June 1913" - other cover information: "Published monthly by Preston & Stucky, Waseca, Minnesota, The Rexall Store", a paragraph about the feature story on perfumes, and a list of other features inside the magazine - e ... more

Material: paper. Size: 8 1/2" W. x 11 3/4" L. Description: white with black and green printing - some color used on graphics throughout - cover page features a graphic of young children holding hands in a circle and the words "The Kiddies Number" - printed across top banner: "The Rexall News, Vol. 12, No. 1, July 1913" - other cover information: "Published monthly by Preston & Stucky, Waseca, Minnesota, The Rexall Store", plus a list of contents inside magazine - eight pages of stories and ads ... more

Material: paper. Size: 10 1/2" W. x 15 3/4" L. Description: white with black and red print and graphics - cover missing - page one features portraits of contributors including Booth Tarkington, Fanny Hurst, etc., as well as the table of contents - 88 numbered pages of stories and ads.

Material: paper. Size: 10 1/2" W. x 15 3/4" L. Description: white glossy cover of McCall's Magazine for June, 1922 - cover model by Guy Hoff is of a white gowned young woman in a large garden hat - subscriber: "Miss Nora Breck of 809 n. 2nd St., Waseca Minn." stamped on cover - 64 pages of stories, features and ads.

Material: paper. Size: 10 1/2" W. x 15 3/4" L. Description: white glossy cover of McCall's Magazine for November 1922 - cover model is of a young woman in a short sleeved, scooped neckline white dress with a dropped waist belt of red rosettes and holding a feather plume - subscriber: "Miss Nora Breck of 809 n. 2nd St., Waseca Minn." stamped on cover - price "10 cents" displayed prominently - feature story" Fortune's Fool" begins in this issue, by the author of "Scaramouche" - 84 pages of stori ... more

Material: paper. Size: 11" W. x 16" L. Description: white pages with black print, photos and graphics - cover missing - page one displays title: "The Delineator for September 1919" with photos of a World War I soldier and a victory parade - 96 pages of stories, photos and ads.

Material: paper. Size: 11" W. x 14" L. Description: white glossy cover features a painting of a smiling baby entitled "The World is Mine" - magazine title across top: "The Delineator" for July 1922 - 96 pages with black print, photos, ads and graphics, some in color - special features: important child articles: summer fiction by Hutchinson, Gale and Butler; as well as many 1922 fashions by The Butterick Publishing Company of New York.

Material: paper. Size: 11" W. x 14" L. Description: white pages - magazine title across top of first page: "The Delineator" for December 1922 - front cover missing - 108 pages with black print, photos, ads and graphics, some in color - special features: Christmas gifts and desserts, decorations, Christmas stories, articles about cancer, photographs and the feeding of infants as well as 1922 nightwear patterns and Paris fashions.

Standard Gas Station Pen. Material: plastic and metal. Size: 3/4" W. x 5 1/8" L. Description: white and blue cylinder with red in the logo; retractable ball-point in silver tip operated with the silver push button at the top of the pen; silver metal clasp on side; red, white and blue "Standard" company flame logo within an oval at top of pen printed in silver on the blue lower end of pen: "Tetzloff Standard, Janesville, Minnesota, Phone 234-6265"; silver band separates upper from lower ends of ... more

Property Sign. Material: metal. Size: 7 3/8" W. x 10 1/2" L. Description: dark blue with white print - signage imprinted: "Subscriber to Farmstead, Stock and Home, Protected by the William J. Burns International Detective Agency, Inc., Offices in Principal Cities of the World, A Reward for Information Leading to Arrest and Conviction of Perpetrators of any Crime Against this Subscriber on this Farm" - subscriber number is stamped in upper right corner: "3391" - narrow white border around sign ... more

4 1/8" x 3 1/8" black and white photograph of the Commercial Hotel, located on West Elm Avenue, Waseca, Minn.; three people posed in front are unidentified. The Commercial Hotel was owned by Margaret Collins from October 1895 until her death in 1908. From Waseca Radical, October 23, 1895, "Mrs. Collins has purchased the hotel business of Joe Chase and will again take charge of the old place."

(a) Button. Material: metal. Size: 1/2" diameter. Description: gold metal with red, white and blue inlay - gold "55" imprinted on center blue circle. (b) Case. Material: plastic. Size: 1" square. Description: clear plastic top - black plastic bottom - foam insert. Odd Fellows.

(a) Button. Material: metal. Size: 1/2"diameter. Description: gold metal with red, white and blue inlay - gold #50 imprinted in center of blue circle. (b) Case. Material: plastic. Size: 1" square. Description: clear plastic top - black plastic bottom - foam insert. Odd Fellows.

(a) Button. Material: metal. Size: 1/2" diameter. Description: gold metal with red, white and blue inlay - gold # 25 imprinted on blue center circle. (b) Case. Material: plastic. Size: 1" square. Description: clear plastic top - black plastic bottom - foam insert. Odd Fellows.

(a) Cutton. Material: metal. Size: 1/2" diameter. Desription: disk shaped imprinted with "Past Grand" and the Three Ring Link logo on the outer edge - white star inlay star centered on red background center - foam insert. Odd Fellows.

(a) Button. Material: metal. Size: 1/2" diameter. Desription: disk shaped imprinted with "Past Grand" and the Three Ring Link logo on the outer edge - white star inlay star centered on red background center - foam insert. Odd Fellows.

Bathke War Ration Books and Envelope. Material: paper. Size: 4 3/4" W. x 6 3/4" L. Description: tan - red printing on front and fold over flap (torn off): "United States of America War Ration Books" - advertising in red print on front: "Waseca Savings and Loan Association, F.J. Conway, Secretary, Waseca, Minnesota". Contents of envelope: (a) ration book. Material: paper. Size: 4 1/2" W. 5 3/4" L. Description: War Ration Book No. 3 #732487 CH - off-white folder containing several pages of unus ... more

Clear Lake, North Star Park. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" black and white postcard photograph of the bathing beach at Clear Lake, Waseca, Minn.; later also known as North Star Park; visible is the water slide that existed for many years. The area beyond the road behind the beach became Lakeside Country Club or Golf Club.

Waseca Main Street. Waseca State Street. Material: paper. Size 3 1/2" x 4 1/2". Description: black and white postcard photograph of mainstreet Waseca, showing 2nd Street, which is now State Street, visible businesses are Olsen & Guyer, Dr. Galligan, dentist, a drug store, the Waseca County courthouse in the distance; wagons and horses parked and moving about the street; telephone poles line the street; taken from the sidewalk on the east side of the street, about where Waseca Music is located ... more