Scouting for Rural Boys. Material: paper. Size: 4 1/2" x 7". Description: black hard cover with silver title print: "Scouting for Rural Boys"; contents: 453 numbered pages of leadership techniques for scoutmasters of the Boy Scouts of America; illustrated.

Girl Scout Handbook 1924. Material: paper. Size: 5" x 7 1/2". Description: brown hard cover with black title print: "Scouting for Girls"; contents: 558 numbered and illustrated pages with information on the history, principles and organization of the Girls Scouts in America as well as requirements and activities recommended for Girl Scouts.

Boy Scout National Jamboree 1937. Material: paper. Size: 9" x 12". Description: blue hard cover with white title print: "The National and World Jamborees in Pictures, Boy Scouts of America"; contents: 170 numbered and illustrated pages detailing The First National Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America held at Washington, D. C. June 30 to July 9, 1937 and the First World Jamboree of Scouting held in Holland, July 31 to August 19, 1937".

Intermediate Girl Scout Handbook 1940. Material: paper, textile. Size: 5" x 7". Description: green hard cover with yellow cover graphics and print: "Girl Scout Hand Book"; contents: 694 numbered pages of information and illustrations of Girl Scout history, program activities and progression.

Intermediate Girl Scout Handbook 1947. Material: paper, textile. Size: 5" x 7". Description: green hard cover with yellow cover graphics and print: "Girl Scout Handbook"; contents: 527 numbered pages of information and illustrations of Girl Scout organization definition, program fields, proficiency badges, explanation of senior scouting and index.

Olga Hofdahl Funeral Card. Material: paper. Size: 3 1/4" x 4 1/4" folded. Description: white folder with cover graphic of a memorial spire; content information: memorial details for Olga Johnson Comas Best Hofdahl born in Waseca County in 1887.

Alvin Miller Sr. Story, 2nd Printing with Update. Material: paper, plastic. Size: 8 1/2" W. x 11" L. Description: white card stock cover, white plastic reinforced spine; color photo of Miller farm on cover and printed title: "Memoirs"; contents: 120+ numbered pages of Miller family life with black and white photos; color photo of entire Alvin and Lucille Miller family as of 1995.

Krassin Nursery Primer Book. Material: paper. Size: 7 1/4" x 9". Description: white hard cover book with color graphic of little girl unwrapping her new doll; title print: "Nursery Primer"; contents: alphabet lesson, animals stories.

Elmer Philip Nelson and Lancelot outside Nelmoor Stables. Article and photos in The Waseca Journal 28 August 1946. Caption: "Outside his precision built stable at Waseca is E.P. Nelson, horse fancier, and his five-gaited stallion Lancelot."

Elmer Philip Nelson inside Nelmoor Stables. Article and photos in The Waseca Journal 28 August 1946. Caption: "Hand tooled saddles, one with his name on the cantle, quality bridles and other leather goods pertinent to a tack room are in this one. The wood was matched and hand fitted by Nelson, shown as he fussily adjusts the bridle."

Ewert's Hardware Customer Appreciation Letter. Material: paper. Size: 5 1/4" x 8 1/2". Description: white paper with photocopied typed message: "To our valued customers..." notifying them that the hardware store has been purchased by Mike and Wendy Morton of Janesville, signed Glenn Ewert and Sharon Ewert.

Photo Album of Waseca County Railroad History. Material: plastic, paper, metal. Size: 9 1/2" x 11 1/2". Description: black vinyl three-ring binder, white paper cover with title: "Waseca County Railroad History, Selected Photographs"; contents: unnumbered 8" x 10" photo reprints enlarged from candid snapshots and postcards featuring conductor Jack Mitchell, Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. C & NW Railroad locomotives, train wrecks involving the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad. M & St. L ... more

Smithsonian Barn Again Exhibit Support Materials. Material: paper. Size: 9" x 11 1/2". Description: red card stock folder containing loose leaf papers related to Waseca County barn preservation and the Main Street Smithsonian exhibition held at the Waseca County Historical Society museum in March 2004.

Blue Earth County in the World War 1917, 1918, 1919. Material: paper. Size: 8" x 11". Description: brown hard cover with gold graphic and print: Blue Earth County Minnesota in the World War 1917-1918-1919; eagle on wreath graphic; contents: 221 numbered pages telling the story of Blue Earth County's part in the great struggle for democracy told in story and picture, black and white portraits of county servicemen includes service records and home towns; history of events leading up to and includi ... more

Waseca County Service Record World War II. Material: paper. Size: 8" x 11". Description: green hard cover with gold printed title: "Service Record, World War II, Waseca County"; contents: 230 pages of black and white photographs featuring all those who served in World War II from Waseca County as well as residents who served on war committees; advertisers listed.

Textile Tools of Colonial Homes. Material: paper, metal. Size: 6" x 9". Description: tan card stock cover with black graphics of textile tools and title print: "The Textile Tools of Colonial Homes"; contents: 64 numbered pages describing tools such as cards, brakes, hackles, spinning wheels, reels, yarn winders, swifts, bobbin and quill winders and looms; process charts for flax to linen and wool to woolen and worsted; illustrated; index.

100 Years of Farm Journal Magazines. Material: paper, textile. Size: 9" x 12". Description: blue hard cover with gold spine print: "100 Years of Farm Journal"; white dust cover; contents: 251 pages of reprinted pages from issues of the Farm Journal magazine beginning with 1877 to the 1970s; includes farm news and practices, advertisements and fashions, crusades and opinions, household hints and changing lifestyles; features World War I soldier, cover girl Margaret Peaches Majers who became the ... more

Genetics Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station Booklet. Material: paper. Size: 8 1/2" W. x 11" H. Description: full color booklet; 52 pages, "Genetics to Genomics Landmark Discoveries from the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station."

Clerical Outfit Catalog 1930s. Material: paper. Size: 7 1/2" x 10 1/4". Description: brown cover; red print: "Clerical Outfit"; American Edition, Catalogue No. 148; Places of interest and routes; Where to stay; Bishops and Dignitaries dress; Cassocks; Choristers Gowns; Dress Wear; Episcopal Robes; Eucharistic Vestments; Headwear; Ordination outfits; Silk Robes; Suits; Tropical Outfits; U.S.A. Gowns.

Anti Horse Thief Association 1901 Booklet. Material: paper. Size: 3 1/2" x 6". Description: orange cover; black print: "National A.H.T.A. Ritual for Subordinate Order, 1901"; 3 pages.

Anti Horse Thief Association 1929 Booklet. Material: paper. Size: 5 1/2" x 7 3/4". Description: brown cover; black print: "Anti Thief Association, Proceedings of the sixty-seven annual session held at Arkansas City, Kansas, National Order, 1929"; 41 pages plus rooster at back.

History of Winona and Olmsted Counties. Material: leather, paper. Size: 7" x 10" x 3 1/2". Description: brown leather hard cover with gold cover and spine print: "History of Winona and Olmsted Counties 1883"; contents: 1148 pages of Minnesota Winona and Olmsted County history, biographical matter and statistics gathered from matter furnished by interviews with old settlers, county, township and other records, and extracts from files of papers, pamphlets and other sources; handwritten inside b ... more

American Primitives Artifacts. Material: paper. Size: 6" x 9". Description: white card stock cover with color photo graphic of log cabins, corn shock, split rail fence and rooster with title print: "American Primitives"; contents: 109 pages of black and white photographs showing pioneer household and farm equipment and tools, recreational items found mostly in Tennessee and housed in the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tennessee.

Anti Horse Thief Association Roster 1903 Booklet. Material: paper. Size: 5" x 7 1/2". Description: brown cover; black print: "A.H.T.A. Roster, Indian Territory Division, 1903"; 6 pages.

Anti Horse Thief Association 1916 Booklet. Material: paper. Size: 5 1/4" x 7 3/4". Description: brown cover; black print: "The Anti Horse Thief Association, Proceedings of the twenty-second annual session of the West Oklahoma Division, held at Medford, Oklahoma, 1916"; 12 pages.