Isora Gray Bathke

Photograph

Waseca County History Center

Name/Title

Isora Gray Bathke

Entry/Object ID

32.23

Description

Isora Gray Bathke Cabinet Card by Waseca Photographer, Sower. Material: paper. Size: 4 1/4" x 6 1/2". Description: sepia image mounted on heavy pasteboard; young woman wearing wire-rimmed glasses, hair pulled back and curled bangs; she is wearing a high necked dress with a small collar and high puffed sleeves, a chain choker necklace; printed at lower edge of photo, "Sower, Waseca, Minn." and a logo printed, "Extra Finish".

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Cabinet Card

Context

The donor sent unidentified vintage photo from a company called Calamityphoto.com, in Portland, Oregon. Identified after WCHS staff posted image on Facebook.

Cataloged By

Pfen

Made/Created

Date made

1880

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Research Notes

Person

Date

Mar 6, 2026

Notes

... Wm. Bathke's first wife was a Krassin (a descendant is one of our researchers); one of Isora's descendants is Bill Bathke. Bill's brother wrote a rather strange 'mystery' using some Waseca places and characters ... some actual but renamed and some fiction thrown in. The Krassin-Bathke story is a soap opera ... maybe some of the second marriage was too!

Create Date

May 24, 2023

Update Date

March 6, 2026