A tour boat filled with vacationers is moving across the lake. Flags are flying in the breeze. The photographer’s notes indicate that this image was taken in 1925.
Two men, one of whom is probably the photographer’s son Le Roy are pictured standing in an intersection of two passages in a cave. The number 2205 is written on a label that has been stuck to the lower left corner of the slide.
The houses of a town are barely left standing, with extensive damage shown in their collapsed walls and roofs. The church steeple is still standing. The photo is marked as U.S. Official and has the Signal Corps logo, 35458.
Anna Schumacher (Emily Hoffmann's mother and the photographer's grandmother), on the left, and Mrs. Nickols, (Albert D. Hoffman's grandmother and the photographer's great grandmother), on the right, are standing and facing the photographer. Anna is…
Two men wearing butchers’ smocks stand in the Armour and Company Meat Locker at 298 Iowa Street. The man at left, wearing a straw hat, is the manager, Arthur H. Sigmann (or Sigman). The number “103” has been written on the emulsion side of the…
Arthur H. Sigmann (or Sigman) sits at a desk in the Armour & Company office at 298 Iowa Street. He wears a butchers’ smock and a straw hat and is looking at a letter. Other papers and letters cover his desk. The only one that is legible reads: “’Ever…
Two Story Armour and Company Building for meat packing. The building has a doorway up a few stairs on the front, right side of the building. There are three windows to the left of the doorway. Above the doorway is a decorative design. On the second…