Waseca Boy Scouts #85 and 86. Material: paper, plastic, metal. Size: 10" W. x 11 1/2" L. Description: blue vinyl three-ring binder - contents: many pages of photocopied scout pictures of Waseca troop activities during the 1960s and 1970s.

History of the American Legion. Material: paper. Size: 6 1/4" x 9 1/2". Description: red hard cover with blue paper dust cover, gold title print and American Legion seal graphic. Contents: 610 numbered pages and black and white photos of the American Legion from 1919-1989.

ODD Fellows Lodge History and Manual. Material: paper. Size: 6" x 9 1/4" x 2 1/2" D. Description: red hard cover with gold and black printed title: "ODD Fellowship, Its History and Manual". Contents: 694 numbered pages and drawings about the Independent Order of ODD Fellows throughout the world including history, constitution, by-laws, jurisdictions, encampments, patriarchs, Rebekah Degree and biographies of several ODD Fellow leaders and their portraits; drawings included of visiting cards, ... more

ODD Fellows Annual for 1849. Material: paper. Size: 5 1/2" X 9". Description: green hardcover with gold engraved graphics on front and spine. Contents: 320 numbered pages of stories, poems and engravings meant to instruct and entertain its readers.

IOOF Code of General Laws. Material: paper. Size: 6" x 9". Description: buff colored hard cover with title: Code of General Laws of the I.O.O.F. Contents: 320 numbered pages of laws, constitution, rules of order, Rebekah Degree code, patriarchs militant code and supply price lists.

Swedish Immigrant, Mina Anderson Memoir. Material: paper. Size: 6" x 9". Description: blue hard cover with multicolored paper dust jacket, Mina Anderson photo on front; title: "I go to America; Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson" - contents: 294 numbered pages with photos and pertinent graphics; index. Immigration.

Black Baseball in Minnesota. Material: paper. Size: 7 1/2" x 9 1/2". Description: red hard cover with multicolored paper dust jacket; cover graphic of baseball player in action; title: "Swinging for the Fences"; contents: 243 numbered pages of information and black and white photos about African American baseball players and teams in Minnesota history; the EACO Flour Baseball Team of Waseca is included in the index.

Minnesota Future Farmers History. Material: paper. Size: 8 1/2" x 11". Description: blue paper back with black and white FFA photos and yellow FFA logo - contents: 320 numbered pages and black and white photos document the Future Farmers of America organization from the 1920s to the 1980s in a pictorial chronology.

Minnesota Etcher, George Earl Resler, 1882-1954. Material: book. Size: 9" W. x 12" L. Description: white glossy cardstock cover with small landscape graphic on center front - contents: 116 numbered pages includes many of Resler's prints as well as biographical information.

Marcus Hauck Reflections. Material: paper. Size: 6" x 8 1/2". Description: yellow hard cover with white paper dust jacket; jacket graphic: wheat and sun; cover information includes title and author: "Reflections.. .from a Depression Adolescence to Age Sixty-Two", by Marcus John Hauck - contents: 72 numbered pages of information and black and white photos covering his life, family and career and selected newspaper columns he authored.

Kirwin and Logue Families. Material: paper. Size: 5 1/4" x 8". Description: multicolored glossy cardstock; cover photo graphic of subject, Mary McNally Kirwin and rural small town, Chokio buildings - contents: 201 numbered pages covering the years 1840-1995, black and white photos, bibliography, notes, sources and helps on how to do family research.

Winona & St. Peter Railroad. Material: paper. Size: 5 1/4" x 8 1/2". Description: buff colored paperback with brown graphics and print: The Genesis & Construction of the Winona & St. Peter Railroad, 1858-1873, by Alan R. Woolworth - contents: 53 numbered pages with illustrations and map; an edition of The Rural & Regional Essay Series. Winona and St. Peter Railroad. W & St. P Railroad. Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. C & NW Railroad. Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad. DM & E Railroad. ... more

Pioneer Railroad. Material: paper. Size: 6" x 9 1/2". Description: red hard cover with gold spine print: Pioneer Railroad - contents: 335 numbered pages covering the story of the Chicago and North Western railroad system; black and white photos; indexed. Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. C & NW Railroad.

Chicago & North Western Railroad Publication. Material: paper. Size: 8 1/2" x 11". Description: blue glossy cardstock cover, North Western locomotive photo graphic - contents: 73 numbered pages of short articles including the C & NW in Minnesota, the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad. M & St. L Railroad snowplows and many black white photos and graphics. Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. C & NW Railroad. Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad. M & St. L Railroad.

MNDOT History of Local Transportation & Roads. Material: paper, plastic. Size: 8 1/2" x 11". Description: brown cardstock with graphic of road workers - plastic spiral binding - contents: 92 numbered pages includes history and photographs covering the time period from territorial roads to the 1990s; bibliography.

Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway. Material: paper. Size: 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Description: gray hard cover with red milestone graphic and red spine print: Milestones of the Prairie - contents: 310 numbered pages of information covering the story of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway 1870-1950 with black and white photos. Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad. M & St. L Railroad.

History of the M & St. L Railway. Material: paper. Size: 8 1/2" x 11". Description: multicolored cardstock cover with locomotive photo graphic and red title information: The Tootin' Louie - contents: 374 numbered pages of train history and black and white photographs; index. Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad. M & St. L Railroad.

Horizon Book of Railways. Material: paper, textile. Size: green hard cover with red graphic and print: The Horizon Book of Railways - contents: 159 numbered pages of railway information with colored and black and white photos.

Owatonna State Public School & Orphanage. Material: paper. Size: 6" x 9". Description: gray hard cover with gray paper dust jacket; young child cover graphic with printed cover information: Patty's Journey, from Orphanage to Adoption and Reunion, by Donna Scott Norling. Contents: 186 numbered pages detailing the life of a girl taken from her parents and raised in the State Public School for Dependent and Neglected Children in Owatonna, Minnesota; black and white photographs.

New Richland Circus Flyer. Material: paper. Size: 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Description: pink copy paper, black printed information on front: "Culpepper & Merriweather Circus is coming to New Richland".

Waseca, Woodville and St. Mary Address Directory 1899. Material: paper, plastic. Size: 8 1/2" x 11". Description: black print on white copy paper secured within clear vinyl cover with red spine; contents:49 numbered pages of names (many with marital status and/or occupation), addresses and advertisers.

Waseca County Railroad Project of 1980. Material: paper, metal. Size: 9" x 11 1/2". Description: red heavy cardstock covers with metal insert binding; contents: 116 pages of information on the project plus abstract, map, content page, bibliography and appendices.

American Railroad Stations 1831-1920. Material: paper. Size: 9" x 12". Description: blue hard cover with blue and black paper dust cover; vintage depot photographs shown on dust jacket along with title: "Down at the Depot"; contents: 318 numbered pages with over 400 illustrations.

Railroads: Great American Adventure. Material: textile, paper. Size: 7" x 10". Description: black cloth covered cardboard with blue locomotive graphic on front; contents: 202 numbered pages with colored and black and white illustrations; index.

Peter Georgas on Elm Avenue. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" hand-tinted photograph of young boy identified as Peter Georgas, holding a string of perch (fish); standing on west Elm Avenue just west of the Crystal Cafe on corner behind him at State Street in Waseca, MN.; wearing overalls and sweater. His father's 1936 Nash, purchased at Priebe's is visible parked on curb at right.