Name/Title
Postcard, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
LU32.255Description
Elm and State Street Intersection with Center Fountain. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" black and white postcard photograph; southwest corner of Elm and State Streets in Waseca, Minn.; Didra Drugstore building, and Guyer Clothing next door, C. M. Hawkes Hardware; Model A Ford parked on State Street; canvas covered Waseca Prince Popcorn Wagon.Context
The donor is the great-grandson of William Everett, co-founder with Aughenbaugh, of the E. A. Co Mill in Waseca County. The Everett home, built by William's son Edward Everett, overlooking the east end of Clear Lake, was a showplace in its time, a classic Victorian-style home, it was demolished in 1958 it was an architectural and historical loss to Waseca County. This collection of photographs from Willard Everett is donated under our "Loaned to Us" program, where the donor allows WCHS to scan the images, but donor keeps possession of the original photographs. This photograph is from his postcard collection. (George Ericson who ran the popcorn wagon for many years used the money he made to put himself through art school, which his father would not support; George Ericson later changed his name and became well-known as illustrator and painter, Eugene Iverd; Ericson/Iverd died in 1936, but the Popcorn Wagon was operated at that site until well into the 1950s, eventually being sold to a party in Mason City, IA.) Waseca business: Popcorn Wagon, Didra Drug, Guyer Clothing, Hawkes, Hardware. See Accession #1.99.2445Cataloged By
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Object Name
Postcard, PhotographicClass
Documentary ArtifactCategory
Communication ArtifactsCreate Date
May 14, 2002Update Date
November 21, 2024