Mail Carriers NR Post Office

Photograph

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Waseca County History Center

Name/Title

Mail Carriers NR Post Office

Entry/Object ID

LU168.189

Description

New Richland Post Office. Digital scan of glass plate photo. Description: five mail carriers stand inside a post office holding mailbags; one man is seated on a stool beside a desk. Andrew Rotegard was a long-time postmaster during this era.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Albumen Print

Context

A collection of glass plate images were found in the old New Richland Faust Theater and given to the New Richland Area Historical Society; these images were projected to theater audiences in the 1930s and 1940s; the images were scanned into the Waseca County Historical Society Collection as well as the state of Minnesota Reflections collection in 2011 and 2012.

Cataloged By

Pfen

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1910

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Photograph, Glass Plate, Digital

Class

Documentary Artifact

Category

Communication Artifacts

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Create Date

March 27, 2012

Update Date

April 15, 2026