Register of Deed. Number of boxes: 1 Number of sheets: 1

Petition for Special Meeting, 1869. Number of sheets: 1

Blooming Grove Township Meeting Minutes from April 8, 1869 to March 6, 1915. Hardcover book, 508 numbered pages. Number of sheets: 1

Mortgage deed of Adam Bishman to J.W. Johnson and Co. May 5, 1869. Mortgage deed of J.W. Johnson to Eben S. Smith May 19, 1869. Waseca County, Otisco Township, Section 17. Adam Bishman was born in Germany in 1824. He came to America in 1846 and settled in Otisco in 1856. When the railroad was built through Otisco and completed in 1879 the post office was located in his home. He remained the Otisco Postmaster until 1892. Number of sheets: 1

Receipts from the Treasurer's Office, Waseca County, Wilton. Number of sheets: 64

Certificate of the register of the land offices document for James S. Fetterly 5 August 1869. Number of sheets: 1

Mortgage Deed S.S. Rollins and wife to Newell. 4 March 1869. Number of sheets: 1

Mortgage Deed Charles Domey and wife to Godfried Buchler. Number of sheets: 1

Warranty deed Caroline Reineke to Conrad Reineke May 1869. Number of sheets: 1

Apportionment of partition fence for Albert Remund and Samuel Remund 27 November 1869. Signed Riegle, Hand and Remund, Supervisors. Number of sheets: 1

Rural Otisco Township School District #46. School Record book for 1869 - 1876 for school District 46; located in Waseca County, Otisco Township, Section 17, East of Otisco, Bishman. Book lists: Record of Annual School Meeting; Record of Special School Meetings; Register of School Officers and Term of Office; Proceedings of District Board; District Treasurer's Bond; Teacher's Contracts; Register of Orders Drawn; Treasurer's Report to Annual Meeting; District Clerk's Annual Report. Rural School ... more

PLACEHOLDER Science of a New Life. Inscription on flyleaf: "Clara Bishman, 1896."

Baldwin & Kittredge Bankers, Waseca. Material: paper. (a, b, c). Checks. Size: 11 1/4" W. x 16" L. Description: three sheets of 5 blank checks each, identical except for imprinted red numbers: 2775-2779; engraved on left side: "Hartford Elk"; each check imprinted: "Minnesota, Waseca County, Baldwin & Kittredge, Bankers, Waseca ________________ 186_".

Cash Register. Material: wood, metal. Size: 11" W. x 5 1/4" H. x 18 1/2" L. Description: red-stained wooden box with a sectioned drawer that slides in and out; stamped in black on top: "Milt's Alarm Co (Ill.) Incor. 1869. Providence, R.I." - stamped on metal plate on back side: "Baldwin's Patent Mar. 16, 1869."

Young Man Tintype from Bishman-Krassin Album. Material: metal. Size: 1 1/4" x 1". Description: photographic tintype portrait of unidentified young man, mounted in white embossed mat marked "1869".

Lufkin Oak Ruler. Material: wood, metal. Size: 1 1/8" W. x 36" L. x 1/8" D. Description: oak stick - flat rectangular tool extends upward to a rounded shaft grip handle - brass base (1 1/2" W. x 2" L.) - numerals carved along the length of the ruler in two inch increments from base to handle in three rows - stamped near top: of handle: "The E.T. Lufkin Rule Cleveland, O" - black numbers along tool -square metal base.

Sewing Machine. Material: wood, metal. Size: 30" x 41" Description: dark hardwood cabinet on cast iron frame; fold-down wooden tabletop; wooden case printed "Domestic" covers a black metal sewing machine; under tabletop: four stacked wooden drawers on left side, black iron treadles in center and black iron belt wheel on right side.

Emil C. and Lola Hardy Sandretzky and baby Charles. 7" x 5". This image was from a Minneapolis photography studio. Emil was a merchant at 212 North State Street, Waseca.