Description: Gable end view of a small Amana house in the process of being shingled. A barn and some other residences are visible in the background. Picture dates to around 1900. No original markings on the reverse. I have been unable to identify the location. Image is 3 1/4 X 4 and is mounted on an embossed card that is 4 1/4 X 5 1/4.
Description: One of a series of photographs of "alien" citizens living in Amana, taken by F. William Miller. Bernhart, who died in 1919, was a resident of the village of Amana and a member of the Amana Society.
Description: Photograph of the Graf Kitchen House- Amana, Iowa. This building was constructed in 1872 as a kitchen house serving residents of the village of Amana. It is unusual in that two walls of the structure are built of dressed stone bought from an Iowa City quarry. This kitchen was under the management of the Graf family for some time. It stands opposite the Amana Woolen Mill.
Description: Hand colored post card made in Germany of the "Print Works." Early 1900s commercial post card of the Amana Calico Mill. No marks, good condition.
Description: Commerical post card. Post card printed in Germany for sale in the Amana general stores, around 1900. The two buildings pictured were housed the Amana village school. The building on the right (constructed c. 1860) was for the lower grades, while the building on the left (constructed 1870) housed the upper grades. This structure later became the Amana Post Office and is now the headquarters for the Amana Heritage Society and the Communal Studies Association.
Description: This is a hand colored early postcard that actually was used as such. It was sent by Carl Zimmermann to Wilhelm Moershel, who was one of the Society's traveling salesmen, care of a hotel in Sheboygan, Wisconsin on May 12, 1909. The building at right dates to c. 1860 and housed the lower grades, the building at left dates to circa 1870 and housed the upper grades. Today it is part of the Amana Heritage Museum, and houses the office of the Amana Heritage Society and the Communal Studies Association.
Description: A commercially produced post card that would have been available to visitors to the Amanas at the turn of the century. Shows the main buildings of the Amana Woolen Mill. The building at left is the weaving building, the only structure to survive a disastrous 1923 fire intact. This structure was built in two parts in 1891 and 1908, still stands and is still (2012) used for woolen production. No marks on reverse, but one corner has a fold. Postcard, hand colored.
Description: This image was a commercially available post card of the Middle Amana Woolen Mill (later the site of Amana Refrigeration) and dates to around 1910.
Shambaugh, Bertha M. H. (Bertha Maude Horack), 1871-1953
Date
1895
Notes
Description: Group of school boys in the apple orchard, around 1895. This is a modern 8 X 10 print from an original image made by Bertha M.H. Shambaugh around 1895. Shambaugh mainly photographed in Amana between about 1892 and her marriage in 1897. This print was probably made in the 1970s and is of good quality. About 10 school age youths are in the picture, along with two older adults, one of whom (with white chin beard) is likely Engelhardt Hecker, one of the school teachers at the time. Included are several of the distinctive Amana willow baskets.
Description: 16) Group photograph, ca. 1903 of women in front of the Trautmann (later Noe) kitchen house (not completely sure of location) Woman seated, center, is Lina Trautmann, girl seated on ground is Louise Wilhelmine Moershel Stuck (1894-1916) Four other Amana women are seated, or standing, with three visitors, all women in white, are also in the group. Image is 4 X 3 mounted on a gray card board which is 7 X 6. $75.
Description: Original photograph by Peter Stuck (1890-1979). This image is 2 1/2 by 4 and shows a circa 1860 sandstone house in Amana (now part of the Guest Haus Motel)
Description: Small image, not mounted, of a horse drawn wagon in front of the Amana General Store. The Lauer Saal (original 1856 meeting house, no longer extant) is visible in the background. The dozen women, men and children seated on the wagon are clearly excursionists who have arrived by train. A row of picnic baskets is visible on the wagon, and one of the women is shading herself with a large umbrella. Charming, ca. 1900 view of early Amana visitors. 3 3/4 X 3.
Description: 33) Very dramatic image of the inside of the carding and spinning building of the Amana Woolen Mill following the August 11, 1923 fire that destroyed ten buildings at the complex and seriously handicapped the financial health of the Amana Society. Collapsed drive shaft, collapsed interior frame and other equipment. Printed on post card stock. Photograph by F. William Miller (1876-1952) the Amana pharmacist. $30.
Description: Image showing the inside of the spinning and carding building of the Amana Woolen Mill following the fire of 1923, looking south, towards the mill race. Twisted drive shafts and equipment, a view of total devastation. This building was rebuilt inside the original 1859 stone shell within a year. Photo by F. William Miller (1876-1952), the Amana pharmacist.
Description: Interior of the weaving building at the Amana Woolen Mill marked "Factory 1899" on reverse. Image is 3.5 X 4 3/4 mounted on an embossed card that is 5.5 X 6.5. Two young men are seen standing to the left of four power looms. The drive shafts are visible on the ceiling in this very unusual early interior view of the woolen mill.
Description: 21) Portrait of Jacob Frey. Early copy of an oval photograph of Jacob Frey of Main Amana. Image is 5 X 4, unmounted. Not the best print. $20.
Description: Photograph of an Amana baby in a baby buggy with a chicken yard in the background. Identified as "die kleinen Karl Georg" (little Carl George). Photo is circa 1915.
Description: Early 1900 view of the Lauer Saal, a portion of the Main Amana Meeting House and some homes, taken from an upper level of the Amana General Store. The focus on this image is not overly sharp. The Lauer Saal, which burned in the 1930s, was the original, 1856 meeting house for the village. After the new meeting house was built in 1864, this building became an evening prayer service location. Image is 3 1/4 X 4 1/8 mounted on an embossed card that is 4 1/4 X 5 1/2.