The Sacred Heart High School Chronograph, 1918. Material: paper. Size: 8" x 11". Description: white, red and blue cover - "The Chronograph, Waseca, Minnesota, June 1, 1918"; contains references and photos of the following student literary contributors: Breen, Cleary, Curran, Durigan, Heagerty, McCall, Matz, Matthews, Poster, Reycraft and Walsh; photos of the classes of 1919, 1920 and 1921; advertisers: Didra & Guilbert, Pfaff, Wolf & Habein, Hartwich (photo) Drug Store, Crystal Candy, Kopman
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Earl Bevens. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" black and white photo. Earl with horse.
Young Woman With Bobbed Hair. 2 1/4" x 3 1/4" black and white photo. Young woman in dark dress, stockings and shoes and a short bobbed hair style stands posed next to a brick building; spoked wheel behind her.
Helga. 2 1/2" x 4 1/4" black and white photo.
Aunt May Boucher, Father Phil Mathews and Ann Boucher. 2 1/4" x 3 1/4" black and white photo.
US Marine World War I Dress Blues Uniform. (a) Jacket. Material: textile, metal. Size: 17" x 28". Description: dark blue wool coat; red piping; button on each shoulder epaulet; seven metal buttons down center; three buttons on each French cuff. (b) Pants. Material: textile, metal. Size: 14" x 35". Description: blue wool pants with white and blue lining; front fly closing with five silver metal buttons; pocket on each side; inside label stamp: Erskine.
Lucile Hartwick or Harwich. 3 3/4" x 5 1/2" black and white photo. Lucile wearing white dress standing next to pedestal. Lucile 8 year and 2 months old. Lucile was born 23 July 1910. Photographer: A.S. Hellebo, Janesville, Minn. On back: "To Aunt Emma and Miss Eva Nelson."
Norwegian Lutheran Congregations in America. Material: paper. Size: 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". Description: brown hard cover with gold/white cover lettering: "Norske Lutherske Menigheter i America"; contents: history of churches in Norway and in America including those from Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota (including Waseca County), Texas, Missouri, South Dakota, Kansas, Indiana, New Jersey, California and Nebraska; church building photos.
Sacred Heart recital, 1918. Material: paper. Size: 5" x 6 1/4" folded. Description: yellowed paper; Stars and stripes at top; black print: "Recital by..., Senior Students and Sacred Heart Conservatory, April fourth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, at eight o'clock, Palace Theatre, Waseca, Minnesota"; program listed inside; honors listed on back.
Red Cross New Richland Branch Officers. 4 3/4" x 6 3/4" black and white mounted photo. Caption under photo: "Mrs. Nelson, Miss Huseby, Mrs. T. Johnson, Mrs. Rotegard, Miss H. Johnson, Mrs. G. Johnson, Miss N. Johnson, Mrs. Hodgkins, Mrs. H.E. Johnson, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. Drake, New Richland Branch Officers."
Red Cross Committee. 4 3/4" x 6 1/2" black and white mounted photo. Caption under photo: "Mrs. Everett, Mrs. Cummings, Mrs. Zetterberg, Mrs. Leuthold, Mrs. Pickett, Mrs. Wood, Mrs. McLaughlin, Miss Pryne, Mrs. Preston.
Red Cross Parade Float. 4 3/4" x 6 3/4" black and white photo. Two female Red Cross nurses and a young man in World War I military uniform ride on a flat bed truck float; details of the float include a "Memorial Hospital" banner on side of the float, American flags and Red Cross flags; Memorial Hospital building in background.
Nina (Ruhnow) Sewell. 2 1/2" x 4 1/4". A young woman identified as Nina Sewell is posed balancing on a cannon ball behind the Waseca County Courthouse Cannon. Photo taken when Nina was in eighth grade.
Nina (Ruhnow) Sewell and 8th grade classmates in operetta costume. 2 1/2" x 4 1/2". Nina, on far left, played the Fairy Queen in the Graduation Operetta, Jack, The Giant Killer; Holland (Holly) Norton, fifth from left, is posed wearing a hat and turtle neck sweater. Holland (Holly) played The Giant in the Graduation Operetta, Jack, The Giant Killer; other classmates in costume are holding sword and gun props.
Nina (Ruhnow) Sewell. 2 1/2" x 4 1/4". Nina standing next to lamp post on a snowy street; large houses in background. Photo taken 3rd Avenue N.E., Waseca, MN (near Masonic Temple) in winter.
Nina (Ruhnow) Sewell. 2 1/2" x 4 1/4". A young woman identifed as Nina is wearing a white sailor dress with middy blouse and is posed standing in profile next to an American flag on a pole. Photo taken in Pipestone, Minnesota, when Nina was 16 years old.
Oliver Bullard and Mame Taylor. 2 3/4" x 5". A young couple identiifed as Oliver Bullard and Mame Taylor are wearing elegant clothes and posed on steps.
Nina (Ruhnow) Sewell. 2 1/4" x 3 1/4". Copy of photo. Nina is posed sitting on the ground and holding Teddy the dog; a woman stands some distance away aiming a camera at her from the side. Photo taken in Waseca, Minn. House in background.
Monday Study Club 1917-1918 program. Material: paper, textile. Size: 3 3/4" x 5 3/4". Description: gray cover; black print: "Monday Study Club, Waseca, Minnesota, 1917-1918"; 6 pages; red, white and blue ribbon tie on left side.
Elmer Philip Nelson U.S. Navy. Material: paper. Size: 1" x 3". Description: black and white cut out photo of E.P. Nelson in Naval Aviation uniform.
Elmer Philip Nelson U.S. Navy. Material: paper. Size: 5" x 7". Description: black and white photo of E.P. Nelson in Naval Aviation uniform.
World War Two Scrapbook. Material: paper. Size: 9 1/4" x 11 1/4". Description: brown cover; pages filled with newspaper articles, maps, Western Union messages; foreign currency; Safe Conduct pass; Do not Disturb pass and photos.
World War One photo from Walter Conway. Material: paper. Size: 3" x 5". Description: black and white photo; print at top: "Been here lots of times, WRC"; shows three men standing outside sod roofed building. World War I.
Waseca County in the World War (I). Material: paper, textile. Size: 8" x 11". Description: black hard cover, gold cover print: Waseca County in the World War; eagle wing graphic; contents: 223 numbered pages detailing Waseca County's contribution to the war, photos of each soldier with short biographical sketch, photos of county committees, honor roll of men who died, committee descriptions, war chronology.
Olaf Harry Olson. Material: paper. Size: 3 1/4" x 5 1/2". Description: black and white photo postcard of Olaf wearing World War I uniform.