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Title: Amana farm workers with portable tractor powered saw
Date: 1920-1929
Notes: Description: Probably from the 1920s. Believed to have been taken in West Amana of the portable saw rig that was taken around the village to cut fire wood for the residents.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pos030
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Amana men on outing, c. 1910
Date: 1907-1913
Notes: Description: American flag, tent, bicycle, wind up phonograph liquor bottles and shot guns - lots of evidence of "outside" influence.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pos038
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Blank postcard from Amana Society Homestead Store
Date: 1940
Notes: Printed date: 194_
Geography: Homestead (Iowa)
Subjects: Amana Society -- Forms
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-eph-001
Is part of: Amana Society Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Call card, Amana Society
Date: 1930
Notes: Printed date: 193_
Geography: Homestead (Iowa)
Subjects: Amana Society -- Forms
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-eph-002
Is part of: Amana Society Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Caspar Grimm portrait on post card stock of a Main Amana resident seated on wooden chair with brick wall in background, ca. 1915
Date: 1915
Notes: Description: Portrait of Caspar Grimm (died 1925) a resident of the village of Amana and member of the Amana Society. Photo was probably taken circa 1915.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pos034
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Cattle on Homestead Farm
Notes: Description: Shows cattle under some trees in a pasture with six farm workers, at least two of whom have mustaches and were hired laborers.
Geography: Homestead (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pos020
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Children planting onion, Amana, c. 1915
Date: 1912-1918
Notes: Description: Postcard (real image) of children working in an onion field by Main Amana with the school pine grove (Schulwald) in the background. Circa 1915, possibly photographed by F. William Miller.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pos052
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Church in Amana, Iowa
Publisher: Hurley's Supply Co.
Date: 1950-1969
Place published: Des Moines (Iowa)
Notes: Description: This card dates to the 1950s or 1960s and shows women leaving the women's side of the Amana Church (Meeting House) built in 1864. Some scuff marks on image, but card was never mailed.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pos040
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Conrad Baust
Author: Miller, F. William
Notes: Description: Portrait of Conrad Baust. Baust is pictured standing behind a snowball bush with a vine covered brick Amana building in the background. Given the unusual 12 pane lower window sash, visible in this photo, the image was probably made in front of the Amana Pharmacy building and taken by F. William Miller (1876-1952), the pharmacist.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pos053
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Conrad Baust - portrait of man in frock coat and cane standing in front of ivy covered building, taken August 1927
Date: 1927-08
Notes: Description: Konrad Baust (died 1934). Portrait of man in frock coat and cane standing in front of ivy covered building, taken August 1927. Baust 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-pos012
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Eichacker family picnic in Amana Picnic Grove
Notes: Description: Family group (father, mother, son and daughter) having a picnic in the Amana pine grove. The family is that of John Eichacker, Sr. (1882-1935)who was later the President of the Amana reorganization committee. Eichacker was a photographer and this may be a self-portrait.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pos049
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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
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
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

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