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1. Album, Photograph - Marian Stearns Dougherty

   Sepia toned studio photograph of a woman identified as Marian Stearns Dougherty. She is wearing a light colored dress with a lace insert and a beaded sash. Credited to Hubner, Minneapolis and printed on matte photo paper.

   Record Type: Photo

   
2. Album, Photograph - Marian Stearns Dougherty

   Sepia toned studio photograph of a woman identified as Marian Stearns Dougherty. She is wearing a light colored dress with a lace insert and round metal locket. The photo is credited to Sumner and Sons of Northfield MN and is printed on heavy photo paper. May have been her graduation photo.

   Record Type: Photo

   
3. Album, Photograph - Mrs. Stearns & Hubert McKee Stearns

   Sepia toned studio photograph of a woman holding a child; both are in white dresses. The inscription on the reverse states that the boy was Hubert McKee Stearns and is dated August 25, 1914 and gives his age and weight at 3 mos. 14.5 lbs. The photo is credited to Sather, Hutchinson and is mounted on gray photo board.

   Record Type: Photo

   
4. Carving - Woodcarving: Bob Stearns

   Woodcarving of a leaping deer with large antlers. Handcrafted by Bob Stearns. Framed in wood.

   Record Type: Object

   
5. Costume, Performance - Glove hand on wooden handle

   Gloved hand on a long wooden handle with braided leather safety strap. Used by Robert "Bob" Stearns to shake hands with people when he dressed as a clown and walked on stilts in the Hutchinson Water Carnival parade. Photo of Bob Stearns on stilts is 2012-0185-002.

   Record Type: Object

   
6. Letter - World War II letter by Robert Stearns

   Photocopy of a World War II letter written by Bob Stearns to his parents from "Somewhere," dated December 24, 1944. Message of loneliness, memories, and future hopes and dreams for Christmas as he is on a 3-day Christmas duty shooting big guns whenever the infantry and observers say they need them. "giving this one (Christmas) up so that there can be memories of future ones - next year's will be the first." The letter was received January 5, 1...

   Record Type: Archive

   
7. Negative, Glass plate - Mrs. E. W. {J.?] Stearns & daughters, 1911

   Glass plate negative of a photograph of four women, believed to be Mrs. E. J. Stearns and her daughters Gertrude, Marian and Lida Lou. (Envelope has name Mrs. E. W. Stearns.) Photo was taken in 1911 by Nelson Hassan, Photographer, Glencoe, MN. Negative #360. Mary McKee, daughter of James & Agnes McKee was born April 11, 1857. On January 26, 1882 she married Edgar Jason Stearns. They moved to Hutchinson, MN in March 1885. Their three daughters ...

   Record Type: Photo

   
8. Negative, Glass Plate - Miss Mary Stearns, 1885

   Glass plate negative of a photograph of a young woman identified as Miss Mary Stearns (Steans?). She is wearing a dark dress with a bustle, back drape and front horizontal rows of pleated ruffles. She has earrings and a bracelet. Taken in 1885 by Nelson Hassan, Photographer, Glencoe, MN. Negative #387.

   Record Type: Photo

   
9. Postcard - 1909 Hutchinson Track & Field Champions

   Sepia toned photographic postcard showing nine members of the Hutchinson, MN track and field team with their trophy as 1909 Minnesota Champions. They are wearing tank tops or shirts, shorts and track shoes. Identities (as hand written in pencil on reverse side): (l to r) Back row: Dick Pugh, John Arneson, Eugene L. Fallon, Art Jorgenson. Front: Alfred Stegmeier, Herb McDowell, Spencer Stearns, Andrew H. Yerx, Carl Chapin. Unknown where ...

   Record Type: Archive

   
10. Postcard - 1924 snowstorm, Hutchinson, MN

    Sepia toned photographic postcard showing a man dressed in a dark top coat and light colored hat (possibly E.J. Stearns), standing in front of a large stack of lumber and what appears to be a stack of clay drain tile. This snow is credited to the storm of March 1924 at Hutchinson, MN.

    Record Type: Archive

    
11. Postcard - Hutchinson Public School former teachers

    Sepia toned photographic postcard of a group of people identified as former teachers at Hutchinson, MN Public Schools. Superintendent H.L. Merrill can be seen standing on the far right. On the reverse is written in pencil a partial list, none of which are specifically identified: Miss Hanson, Gertrude Stearns, Miss Burger, Riley, Laura Thompson, Miss Daily & Jones. The group is posed in front of two doors and a glassed front bookcase.

    Record Type: Archive

    
12. Postcard - Women wearing hats, with poetry

    Sepia toned photographic postcard showing five women wearing sombrero-like hats. The three on the right are identified as Maude Hooper, Marian Stearns and Florence Ames. The face of the card shows the photo and lines of poetry which are continued on the reverse. The verses are credited to Frank N.Lynch. The card was from Maude M. Hooper of North End Station.

    Record Type: Archive

    
13. Print, Photographic - 1909 HHS Interscholastic Track Champs

    Sepia toned studio photograph of the 1909 Hutchinson, MN High School Boy's Track and Field team, Champions of the Interscholastic Field & Track Meet, May 7, 1909. Pictured with a banner and trophy are, (l-r) standing: Dick Pugh (Manager), Alfred Stegmier, John Arneson, Eugene Fallon, Ar. Jorgenson, R. Habberstad; and seated: Spencer Stearns, Andrew Yerx (Captain), Carl Chapin, Herb. McDowell. Mounted on gray photo board.

    Record Type: Photo

    
14. Print, Photographic - Clown Robert "Bob" Stearns on stilts,1950s

    Black & white photograph of Robert "Bob" Stearns dressed as a clown and walking on stilts in a Hutchinson Water Carnival parade on Main Street in front of the Stearns Lumber Company building in the 1950s. Bob Stearns was the father of donor James Stearns. James thought his mother Rosella might be the woman facing right in the group on the right. Stearns Lumber Company was at 216 Main St South until it became Stearnswood and moved to 3rd Ave ...

    Record Type: Photo

    
15. Print, Photographic - Early residents from McLeod Co., MN

    Sepia toned collage of 30 photographs of early McLeod County, MN residents from Brownton, Hutchinson, Silver Lake, Biscay, Glencoe, and Plato. This group of photos is from page 63 of the 1898 Standard Atlas of McLeod County, Portrait Department. Pictured are: Frank Mann, Homer Frankenfield, Rev. J. Cermak, Carl Hagen, Rev. A. Zalewski, H. Wadsworth, Dr. Kee Wakefield, L. Tomlinson, B. F. Allen, J. Underwood, E. Kiesler, R. H. McClelland, W. S...

    Record Type: Photo

    
16. Print, Photographic - Edgar J. Stearns

    Sepia toned studio photograph of Edgar J. Stearns. He is wearing dark rimmed pince-nez glasses, a vested suit and paisley patterned tie. He was born in New York State in 1856, established a lumber business in Hutchinson and worked at it until his death in 1938.

    Record Type: Photo

    
17. Print, Photographic - Edgar J. Stearns Family

    Sepia toned studio photograph of the Edgar J. Stearns Family, c1895. (l to r) Lida Lou, Mrs. Stearns, Max, Marion, Gertrude, E.J. and Spencer. Lida Lou, seated in the chair, is dressed in a white dress. Mrs. Stearns has on a dark dress, Max is in a dark suit with white collar and bow tie. Marion and Gertrude have dark dresses and white aprons. E.J. Stearns has on a dark vested suit with wing collared shirt and dark tie. His watch chain is visible...

    Record Type: Photo

    
18. Print, Photographic - E. J. Stearns

    Scanned sepia toned photograph of E. [Edgar] J. Stearns, Hutchinson, MN. One of 30 photographs of early McLeod County, MN residents from Brownton, Hutchinson, Silver Lake, Biscay, Glencoe, and Plato pictured on page 63 of the 1898 Standard Atlas of McLeod County, Portrait Department. Collage photographs are 1998-0043-003.

    Record Type: Photo

    
19. Print, Photographic - E. J. Stearns

    Framed sepia toned portrait photograph of E. J. Stearns, first President of the Library Board, served 1901-1929. Metal name plate is attached to back. Frame: 18.125" x 22.5" Photocopy is filed in Archives-People-Photo Box-"S" Stearns.

    Record Type: Photo

    
20. Print, Photographic - E. J. Stearns Lumber Company

    Sepia toned photograph of E. J. Stearns Lumber Company, unknown year. Signs on the building advertise Lime, Cement, Plaster, Brick, and Dry Lumber. Three men are standing to the side of the building by the yard where a wagon hitched to a white horse is loaded with materials; lumber and pipes are stacked on the ground. A wagon hitched to a horse team and holding what appears to be milk cans is stopped near the front of the building; its driver ...

    Record Type: Photo