WWI Enlistees 1918

Name/Title

WWI Enlistees 1918

Entry/Object ID

1.00.192

Description

World War I Enlistees. 9 1/2" x 7" black and white photograph; group of young men enlisted into World War I military service; posed outside Waseca County Courthouse; front caption: "Left April 30, 1918, Waseca, Minn." Men unidentified, names in random order: Elof Anderson, John Michaelson, John Neuendorf, Lawrence Fell, George Albert Carpenter, Johannes Edwin Markus Frankson, Charles E. Beetsch, Adolph Theodore Martinson, Oscar Rubin Tolin, Benjamin Gustave Frank, Gust Koerbitz, Jess Montgomery, Luie Edmund Tietz, Carl Helms, Walter Sorenson, Fred August Dressel, Emil Adolph Blaesing, William B. Ray, Adolph Kanthack, Leonard Hans Channel, Clifford Ellsworth Stowers.

Context

Waseca business: Kopman Photography. Another group of Waseca County sons left yesterday to enter the service of their country. Escorted to the depot by our citizens and the Waseca band, the drafted men left for training at Camp Dodge. Two men enlisted for the regular army and went to Albert Lea, later to go to Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis.

Cataloged By

amanda

Made/Created

Studio

Kopman Photography

Date made

Apr 30, 1918

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

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Create Date

January 14, 2000

Update Date

August 26, 2026