Wolf House/Pine Cone Inn. Material: paper, wood, textile, metal. Size: 18 1/2" x 22 1/2". Description: sepia enlarged photo of the clapboard Victorian style house at the corner of 2nd Ave. and 4th St., Waseca; mounted under glass, matted and framed with a narrow wooden ornately carved frame by Wayne J. Photography.

Buster Stencel Memories of Pearl Harbor. Interview of Waldorf native, Buster Stencel who served in World War II, by Jerry Stencel.

Dorothy Hodgkins Gigeay Interview April 24, 1984 by Carol Rutledge. Audio file can be played from the Waseca County Historical website. Subjects: Freedom Township; Hodgkins Family; World War II; U. S. Coast Guard; Waseca County doctors; Women's Fashions of the 1940s; Religion and Spiritualism; Housekeeping in the 1950s; Gigeay Family; Modern Appliances; Social Life; Entertainment; American Legion Auxiliary; Frozen Orange Juice; League of Women Voters; President Franklin Roosevelt; Basement Homes ... more

Margaret Johnson Stuart Oral history interview transcript, 28 August 2015 with Pauline Haug Fenelon. Interview took place at the Waseca County Historical Society. Audio file can be played from the Waseca County Historical website. Subject: New Richland; 1920s Family Life; Depression Era; World War II; Margaret Johnson was born to George and Minnie Haugan Johnson of New Richland, Minnesota on January 11, 1920; Margaret married Edwin Stuart in 1943 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Approximately 90 min ... more

Dr. Wesley Howard Rethwill Interview, December 30, 2008 Sheila Morris. Audio file can be played from the Waseca County Historical website. Subjects: Rethwill Family; Waseca Boy Scout Troop 85; Aquilla Club; Dentistry Practice of Dr. Wesley Harve Rethwill and son Dr. Wesley Howard Rethwill; Early memories of Waseca include the neighborhood, the Everett Family, the Masonic Lodge, Waseca Schools and boyhood friends: Stubb Wyman, Lefty Sturner, Brozik.

August Groskreutz Interview, December 8, 1983 with Jan Brown. Audio file can be played from the Waseca County Historical website.

August Groskreutz Interview, December 8, 1983 with Jan Brown. Audio file can be played from the Waseca County Historical website. Subjects: Vivian Township; German Immigration; Farming; Tractors and Farm Implements; The Great Depression; Weather; Working Horses; Crops; Grain Elevators; Matawan; Bank Robbers; Bank Fire; World War I; Quilting.

Brown Printing Co. Deck of Playing Cards. Material: paper. Size: 2 1/4" x 3 1/2". Description: gold backed card stock cards with black starburst logo of the Brown Printing Co.; white face cards with traditional number, face and joker card graphics on white playing cards; cellophane wrapped deck.

19 March 1903

This transcript is from a 1976 interview Janesville High School student, Chris Schuch, had with 90 year old land owner Charlie Williams. His land was in Section 19 of Janesville Township near Smiths Mill. Most of the references in this interview are recollections of Mr. Williams' growing up in Janesville Township, weather, school days, Elysian saw mill, logging in Wisconsin, name references to a man name Wood, bear and bobcats, blizzards, housekeeper Mrs. Gray, growing potatoes, deer hunting, ... more

Williams Family information.

Schue Family Information: William Schue Sr.; Daniel Schue; Clara Boettger; Marjorie Schue Britton; Willliam Schue Jr.

Johanna Wilhelmine Krassin Prechel. Material: paper. Size: 10" x 12". Description: tinted sepia portrait of a woman in midlife years, dark center-parted hair pulled to the back, wearing a dark dress trimmed with a vertical row of three buttons, a narrow white standup collar and a brooch at the neckline; identified as Mrs. Gottlieb Prechel, Johanna Wilhelmine Krassin, born June 4, 1827 in Germany and died December 11, 1894 in Waseca County.

Funeral Casket of Johanna Wilhelmine Krassin Prechel. Material: paper. Size: 8" x 10". Description: black and white photo showing a dark wooden casket draped in black fabric and evergreen garland and topped with cascades white roses centered with the word "Mother"; it is resting on a casket holder frame placed in a corner carpeted room; note attached to photo identifies it as the funeral casket of Mrs. Gottlieb (Johanna "Wilhelmine" Krassin) Prechel, born June 4, 1927 in Germany & died Dec. 11, ... more

St. John's Lutheran Church of Alma City Confirmation Class 1916. Material: 11" x 13 1/2". Description: black and white photo image of 19 young men and women and two adult men; man seated in the front row center is likely the pastor of St. John's; all of the girls area dressed in white, the boys are in dark suits with white ties; all are wearing light colored shoulder corsages and hold their rolled confirmation certificates; donor identified Arthur Proechel (Prechel) as standing in the back row, ... more

The Johann Proechel-Wilhelmine Fruch Proechel Family Portrait. Material: paper. Size: 11" x 14". Description: black and white photo portrait of the Johann and Wilhelmine Fruch Proechel family identified in the front row are Ernestina Manthey, mother Wilhelmine "Minnie" Proechel holding a small bouquet, Fred Proechel; in the back row, Samuel Proechel, Ernest Proechel, William Proechel.

Ernest and Amelia (Emilie) Proechel Family Portrait. Material: paper. Size: 10 1/2" x 13 1/2". Description: black and white portrait of Ernest and Amelia (Augusta "Emilie" Proechel seated in the front row center with their children William Proechel and Lydia Fitzloff; standing behind them are siblings Emma Shafer, Herman Proechel, Ida Mittelsteadt, Fred Proechel, Clara Theelke and Hugo Proechel.

Proechel Family Information. Other spellings: Prechel and Prail

Anna Otte Family History Part I. Material: plastic, metal, paper. Size: 11 1/2" x 11 1/2". Description: red vinyl three-ring note book. Contents: family trees, obituaries and notes for Anna Margaretha Otte and Johann Kroeger; Hinrich Miller; Dietrich and Catharina Otte; Claus and Anne Otte; Johann and Anne Kroeger; Klaus Miller and Anne Otte; Hans and Mary Kroeger; John and Elizabeth Kroeger; Anna Kroeger; Henry John Kroeger; Edward and Bertha Kroeger; Frederick and Bertha Kroeger; Johann and M ... more

Anna Otte Family History Part II. Material: plastic, metal, paper. Size: 11 1/2" x 11 1/2". Description: blue vinyl three-ring note book. Contents: family trees, obituaries and notes for Anna Otte Kroeger, Margaret Kroeger and William Krueger; Dietrich and Catharina Otte, Claus and Anne Otte; Johann and Anna Kroeger; William and Margaret Krueger; Frank and Edith Krueger; William and Anna Krueger; Edward and Helene Schroeder; John and Wilhelmina Olson; Walter and Ella Krueger; Anna Krueger; Otto ... more

Otte: Briese and Otte Famly. Material: plastic, metal, paper. Size: 10" x 11 1/2". Description: blue vinyl three-ring notebook. Contents: family trees, obituaries, letters and selected notes for the families of Claus Otte, Riemer Otte and Catherine Otte; John Emil Briese and Catherine Otte; Wilhelm Rudolph Briese and Wilhelmina Porath; Baby Clara Briese; Anna Pauline Briese and Edwad Weckwerth; Mathilda Briese and George Atwood; Herman Briese and Nelle Johnson; Baby Girls Briese; Emil John Bries ... more

Otte Family: Briese and Atwood Families. Material: plastic, metal, paper. Size: 10" x 11 1/2". Description: black vinyl three-ring note book. Contents: family trees of the Emil Briese and Anna Atwood family, a part of the Otte Family Tree.

Otte Family History: Storjohann and Schmook Families. Material: plastic, metal, textile. Size: 10" x 11 1/2". Description: black vinyl three-ring notebook. Content chapters: Henry Storjohann and Margaretha Otte; Marie Storjohann and George Mierves; Emma Storjohann and Julius Reich; Henry Storjohann and Christine Mohr; Louis Storjohann; John Storjohann and Emma Prechel; William Schmoock and Margaretha Otte Storjohann; August Schmoock and Hattie Enright; Wilhelm Schmoock and Katherine; family tre ... more

Bense Family Information.