Elaine Hansen. 3" x 4" sepia colored photo. Elaine one and a half years old, standing on chair. Photographer: A.S. Hellebo, Janesville, Minn.

Leona Hansen. 4" x 5 1/2" black and white photo. Leona at three months old. Woman and man holding Leona. Photographer: A.S. Hellebo, Janesville, Minn.

Girl with long dark wavy hair wearing knee length black dress. 4" x 6" black and white photo. Photographer: A.S. Hellebo, Janesville, Minn.

Girl with hair braided on each side of her head, wearing pearl necklace. 3" x 4" black and white photo. Photographer: A.S. Hellebo, Janesville, Minn.

Trinity Lutheran Church of Wilton. Material: paper, metal. Size: 9 1/2" x 11 1/2". Description: orange card stock binder, cover title: Trinity Lutheran Church Wilton, Minnesota; contents: handwritten notes of church history beginning in 1872.

St. Paul Lutheran Church Council Minutes through the 1920s. Material: paper, metal. Size: 9" x 11 1/2". Description: green card stock, black spine, inside metal binding; contents: photocopies of handwritten council notes in the German language up until they switched to the English language in 1919 and through the 1920s; some church records through the 1940s.

Minutes of Meetings, St. John's Episcopal Church. Material: paper, metal. Size: 9" x 11 1/2". Description: brown card stock cover, white label: "Minutes of Meetings, St. John's Episcopal Church, Janesville, Minn. 1873-1909"; contents: photocopied, handwritten notes taken at monthly meetings of the Episcopal vestry including the minutes of its incorporation in 1873, historical sketch of St. John's from 1897, treasurer's report from 1972, annual meeting from 1973 and statistics from 1974; (miss ... more

Grace Lutheran Church, Waseca Directory 2000. Material: white hard cover, interior and exterior color cover photographs, cover print: "Grace Lutheran Church Waseca, Minnesota 2000"; contents: color photos, names and addresses of church members.

Mrs. Hein (Agusta Gottschalk), Mrs. Agusta Hartwick or Hartwich, sister Emma Nelson of Westby, WI. 4" x 6" black and white photo. Mrs. Hein (Agusta Gottschalk), Mrs. Agusta Hartwick or Hartwich and Emma Nelson standing outside, house and flowers in background.

Neil Nelson, Bessy Hartwick or Hartwich with Stock, Pearl Hartwich or Hartwick and Olive Hartwich or Hartwick, Johanna Hartwich or Hartwick. 3 3/4" x 4 3/4" sepia photo taken at Emma Nelson's house in Westby, Wisconsin by P.E. Gottschalk.

Hansen Family. 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" black and white photo. Five people sitting in living room.

Emanuel Hansen and Pearle (Hartwick or Hartwich) Hansen. 2 3/4" x 4 1/2" black and white photo. Emanuel and Pearle standing on steps inside home.

Vista '76 Scandinavian Settlement, Otisco Township. Material: paper. Size: 6" W. x 9 1/2" L. x 1" D. Description: blue card stock cover; yellow print cover title: Vista '76, 120 years of a Scandinavian-American community; contents: 379 numbered pages of Vista community history, photographs and genealogy of the Scandinavian Immigrant Families (immigrants from Sweden and Norway) of Vista.

The Vista Community After 70 Years. Material: paper, metal. Size: 4 3/4" x 7 1/2". Description: tan card stock cover stapled to white pages, black cover print: "The Vista Community"; contents: 54 numbered pages includes a community historical sketch and a genealogy of community members compiled upon the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Swedish settlement near Otisco, Minnesota.

Christmas Greeting from Wobschall Service Station, Waldorf, Minn. Material: paper. Size: 5" x 10". Description: yellowed paper background; black and white photo of a toddler standing next to a world globe; green paper with black print: "To the top o' the world, I'm climbing - you see, we trade with Wobschall Service Station, Daddy, Mamma and me, Phone 15, Waldorf, Minn.; at Christmas when holiday happiness fills the sky, and warms the heart and glads the eye, we think of old time friends that' ... more

Home Demonstration Leaders Tea, 7 May 1947. Material: paper. Size: Description: pink cover; black print: "Home Demonstration Leaders Tea, 1947"; six pages program information. Event held at Janesville Methodist Church.

Janesville Public School 1957 Christmas program. Material: paper. Size: 8 1/2\" x 11\". Description: two page program one sheet green and the other pink; black print; Kindergarten through grade six lists songs, student names and teacher names.

Janesville High School 1958 Athletic banquet program. Material: paper. Size: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". Description: pink cover; white paper interior; menu, program information, various squads and student names listed; 11 pages.

Janesville High School Commencement 1966. Material: paper. Size: 7" x 7 1/4" (unfolded). Description: white paper; logo on cover; "66, Seniors"; black print inside: "The senior class of Janesville High School announces its commencement exercises Thursday evening, June second nineteen hundred and sixty-six, eight o'clock, gymnasium."

Eustice and O'Dell wedding invitation. Material: paper. Size: 4 1/4" x 5 3/4". Description: white paper; black print: "Mr. and Mrs. Henry Eustice ...daughter Mary Ellen to Mr. Donald O'Dell...Saint Ann's Catholic Church, Janesville, Minnesota."

Born and Wiebke wedding invitation. Material: paper. Size: 4 1/2" x 5 3/4". Description: white paper; gold print on cover: "Wedding Bells"; graphic of four bells; black print inside: "Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Born...daughter Lou Ann Marie to Mr. Benjamin F. Wiebke Jr., Trinity Lutheran Church, Janesville, MN."

Rux and Hinze wedding invitation. Material: paper. Size: 3 1/2" x 4 1/2". Description: white paper; raised bell graphic on cover; black print inside: "Mr. and Mrs. Lester Rux...daughter Loretta Elsie to Mr. Kenneth F. Hinze, Trinity Lutheran Church, Janesville, MN."

DeGraff Hotel. DeGraff House. Material: paper. Size: 5" x 9 1/4". Descrption: black and white newspaper photo. Caption under photo: "Hotel in its Heyday - Dale Dunham, St. Peter, was kind enough to let the Argus publish this treasured family picture of the Hotel DeGraff and some of Dunham's relatives. Dale's father, Robert, is at far left. His grandfather, Charles, is third from left. Charles managed the hotel for several years." Janesville Argus, Wednesday, March 16, 1977.

Blooming Grove Church Visitor. Material: paper, metal. Size: 8 1/2" x 11". Description: white stapled copy paper, black typewritten information, photo of the double-steepled United Methodist Church on front page; contents: history and reminiscences of the 40th anniversary of the merged churches of Bethel and Immanuel renamed Blooming Grove United Methodist Church in 1951; poems included by Albert C. Reineke and Jeannette Roesler Krause; a 1938 copy of the earliest "Visitor Newsletter", member ... more

Blooming Grove Methodist Church History Reprint. Material: paper. Size: 8 1/2" x 11". Description: white copy paper, single sheet, black typewritten account of church history in Blooming Grove Township.