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Title: Emma and John Beck, Homestead
Date: 1916
Notes: Description: Portrait of John (1911-1993) and Emma Beck, Homestead, Iowa. Photograph dates from circa 1916.
Geography: Homestead (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pos056
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Emma and John Beck, Homestead
Date: 1915
Notes: Description: Photograph on postcard stock, ca. 1915 of John (1911-1993). Building in background is the Homestead Bakery where there father, John, was the baker.
Geography: Homestead (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pos004
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Feeding hogs at West Amana
Date: 1920-1929
Notes: Description: Two men feeding hogs in front of the West Amana hog barn. Photograph was taken c. 1920s. Text printed on the image "Feeding Hogs at West Amana." Post card sized image
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pos060
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Four young Amana women, original photograph
Author: Siegrist, Adolph
Date: 1984-07
Notes: Description: The women pictured are Lina Trautman (died 1946), Louise Trautmann Zimmermann (died 1926), Louisa Fritsche and Louise Schadt and the photograph was taken in July 1894. The image is extremely clear, in sepia tones, and mounted on card stock. Image is 4 5/8 X 7. Photograph taken by Adolph Siegrist.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-040
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Frame house, possibly in the village of Amana, ca. 1900
Date: 1900
Notes: 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.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-060
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: George Bernhart (died 1919), portrait, seated, ca. 1918.
Author: Miller, F. William
Notes: 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.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pos017
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Graf (later Moser) Kitchen house, Amana, Iowa
Notes: 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.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-066
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Greeting from Amana, Iowa
Date: 1900-1905
Notes: 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.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pos035
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Greetings from Amana, Iowa
Date: 1900
Notes: 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.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pos042
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Greetings from Amana, Iowa
Author: Zimmermann, Carl H., Moerschel, Wilhelm
Date: 1908-05-12
Notes: 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.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pos037
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Greetings from Amana, Iowa
Notes: 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.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pos036
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Greetings from Amana, Iowa
Date: 1910
Notes: 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.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pos050
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Greetings from Homestead, Iowa
Author: Selzer, Jacob F.
Date: 1912-1918
Notes: Description: View shows the tinshop, a communal kitchen, the east side of the Homestead Store and both of the Amana Society warehouses. Probably taken by Jacob F. Selzer (1888-1917).
Geography: Homestead (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pos010
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Group at an Amana kitchen house preparing cabbage, ca. 1900
Notes: Description: Interesting view of 7 people (6 women and one man) with baskets and a pile of very large cabbage heads in front of a frame building.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-008
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Group of school boys in the apple orchard
Author: 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.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-042
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Group of three women and two children in Homestead timber, ca. 1915
Author: Eichacker, John L.
Notes: Description: Probably taken by John L. Eichacker (1882-1935), the father of the children and husband of one of the women. Identified on the back of the card as Mrs. Wm Moershel, Mrs. John [Caroline] Eichacker (1886-1946), Mrs. John Marz and Elizabeth [Lipman] (1908-1982) and John Eichacker (1910-1945). John H. Eichacker was later a student of Iowa artist Grant Wood, served as the Homestead post master and was a casualty of World War II.
Geography: Homestead (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pos026
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Group photograph of women from Amana
Date: 1900-1906
Notes: 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.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-029
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Group photograph on steps of a frame Amana dwelling
Date: 1910
Notes: Description: Trellis and plantings visible. Appear to be relatives here on a visit. This photograph probably dates from around 1910.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pos032
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Henry Zimmermann Residence, Amana, late 1920s
Author: Stuck, Peter
Notes: 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)
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-031
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Homestead Baseball Team, ca. 1928
Author: Eichacker, John L.
Notes: Description: Printed on post card stock. Shows group of players and the teams two managers: Dr. Henry G. Moershel (1891-1971) and Louis C. Selzer (1889-1960) (in suits) in front of a shed. This photograph was made by John L. Eichacker (1882-1935).
Geography: Homestead (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pos014
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

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