Waseca Central High School Fire. Material: paper. Size: 2 1/4" x 3 1/4". Description: black and white photo showing the burned out ruins after the fire that destroyed Central High School in Waseca.

Waseca Central High School Fire. Material: paper. Size: 2 1/4" x 3 1/4". Description: black and white photo showing the burned out ruins after the fire that destroyed Central High School in Waseca.

Waseca Central High School Fire. Material: paper. Size: 2 1/4" x 3 1/4". Description: black and white photo showing the burned out ruins after the fire that destroyed Central High School in Waseca.

Waseca Central High School Fire. Material: paper. Size: 2 1/2" x 4 1/4". Description: black and white photo showing the burned out ruins of Central High School after the fire of 1923.

Memorial Day Program Booklet 1923. Material: paper. Size: 5 1/2" W. x 8 1/2" L. Description: white cover; booklet stapled through center fold; black and white photographs of a Grand Army of the Republic Veteran, Veterans of Foreign Wars and a Cuba award ribbon and the American Legion logo; black print on front: "Memorial Day, Anniversary Program, Waseca, Minnesota, May 30th, 1923, Under the direction of the United Spanish War Veterans"; inside front cover: "Abraham Lincoln President speech Novem ... more

Henry Michael Gallagher. Material: paper. Size: 5 1/2" x 7 1/2". Description: black and white photograph of Henry M. Gallagher; photograph taken by Trussell, Omaha. Photograph used for promotional political campaign card for Henry M. Gallagher, Candidate for County Attorney, c. 1923. See accession number 8440.9

Woman's Missionary Society Program for 1923. Material: paper. Size: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" folded. Description: white paper with cover print, "1923 Program of the Woman's Missionary Society of the First Congregational Church, Waseca, Minnesota". Contents: schedule of monthly meetings listing the hostess, the devotional presenter, the program topic and the leader for all months except August in 1923. Officers listed: Mrs.Gallagher, Mrs. Senn, Mrs. Stearns, Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Hawkes, Miss Hawkes and Mrs ... more

Invitation to Mid-Winter Frolic in Janesville. Material: paper. Size: 4 3/4" x 7 1/4". Description: yellow card stock fold out letter-envelope addressed to John McBride, Janesville with a formal invitation to a dance party to be held at the Odd Fellows Hall in Janesville on February 2; from Irene Swanson and Adelaid Miner.

Framed Calling Card of Cecelia McBride. Material: paper, metal, glass. Size: 2" x 3". Description: white card with the name Miss Cecelia McBride, pressed flower border at top and bottom; card is permanently sealed behind glass and framed with silver; a sterling silver chain is attached to each of the top two corners through two silver loops.

First National Bank Book Coin Bank. Material: leather, metal. Size: 3 1/4" x 4 1/2" x 1" D. Description: brown leather over metal, shaped in to a book form with a coin and currency deposit slot at the top and a large round currency opening; keyhole on side; printed across the front as the book title: "The First National Bank, Waseca, Minn."

Report Card of Clifford Wadd. Material: paper. Size: 4" x 6". Description: white paper report card form completed for eleven year old student Clifford Wadd by his teacher Emma Johnson from rural Blooming Grove School.

Minnie Mahler Koechel and Infant Son Russell Koechel. Material: paper. Size: 3" x 4 1/2". Description: sepia photo image of a young woman wearing a dark dress with neckline braid trim and a dark feathered fashionable hat; she is holding an infant wearing a white christening gown and light colored knit booties; identified as Minnie Koechel (Mrs. Alvin Koechel) holding their son, Alvin Koechel.

Sophia Beese Mahler (1861-1924). Material: paper. Size: 4" x 6". Description: black and white photo image of an older smiling woman with white hair pulled back, wireless glasses and a dark shiny fabric dress; tentatively identified as Sophia Beese Mahler (Mrs. Fred Mahler), great grandmother of donor.

Emil Felske Notebook. Material: paper. Size: 7 1/2" x 10". Description: green notebook; dated 1923-1925; notebook filled with notes: newspaper clippings of short quips and puzzles; page titled "Machine Shed" with measurement notes; "Sand of Louis Priem" dates, number of loads, placement of sand; "Copy of Barn Lumber Bill", hand written notes with measurements; "Hardware Bill"; "Cost of Barn"; "Hauling for Barn"; Farm related notes for 1923-1925.

Waseca Central High School Architect Plans. Material: paper. Size: 34" x 44". Description: blue drafting paper with white copy work by architect William Ittner, St. Louis, Missouri; sixteen sheets stapled together at the top, each sheet contains specs for a specific area of the planned school: foundation plan, basement and tunnel plan, ground floor plan, first floor plan, second floor plan, ground floor framing, first floor framing, second floor framing, half-ceiling framing and half-roof fr ... more

Glen Cotton, Norma and Ruth Tews. Material: paper. Size: 4" x 6". Description: sepia image of three children posed in a studio setting; they are identified as Glen Cotton Tews posed seated on a bench in the center, Norma Tews Kugath seated on the left and Ruth Tews Bell seated on the right; they are the children of Herman and Clara Gutfleisch Tews; Waseca photographer.

Home of E-A-CO Flour Postcard. Material: paper. Size: 3 3/4" x 6". Description: sepia artist's rendition of the EACO Flour Plant in Waseca, Minn.; Loon Lake in background, office buildings, factory, smoke stack; reverse side addressed to Miss B. E. Wilklow c/0 Robertson Bros., South Bend, Ind., from A. C.; postmarked St. Paul, Minn.