Description: Later day copy print of a circa 1905 post card image of a woman in the kitchen of the Homestead Hotel. Legend on the side of the image reads "A Colony Kitchen, Homestead, Iowa." The image is 6 1/4 X 8 1/4. I know from other prints that this was actually the kitchen of the Homestead Hotel, not a kitchen house for the members. This is now Zuber's Hotel in Homestead. For years room was the main dining area of Zuber's restaurant. Lots of nice details in this picture, including a cat perched in the window.
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.
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).
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.
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).
Description: This image was made several months after the station, one of two that the Society built right after the reorganization, had opened. A car and the stations two employees, twins Herbert (1909-1993) and Albert (1909-1979) Fels are in front. The station was built using bricks that were salvaged from a demolished portion of the Amana Calico Mill. Printed on post card stock, photo is dated in pencil, "May 21 - 1933"
Description: Nice early post card image of 20 school children on a wagon and their teacher, Richard Seifert (1858-1927), in the Homestead apple orchard.
Description: This is a 1970s 8 X 10 copy of an original photograph by John L. Eichacker (1882-1935). Print has a crease in it. Teacher, Richard Seifert, Sr. (1858-1927) stands at right.
Description: Group of 11 men with ice plow, horse and ice saws. Back is marked, in pen, "John Dietrich with horse August Dittrich [1886-1952) with plow." This was a Homestead ice crew. Photograph attributed to John L. Eichacker (1882-1935).
Description: Good condition, no marks, folds or tears. Sleigh in snow scene, probably near Homestead. Photograph attributed to Jacob F. Selzer (1888-1917).
Description: Early 1910s portrait of two young women, Johanna Werner (1894-1978) and Lina Seifert (1895-1973), seated on a wooden bench in front of a frame house in Homestead. The women are identified on the reverse by name with the notation "Tautenhan girls". Post card sized image. Early 1910s.
Description: Photograph printed on post card stock. Photograph is marked "Taken in May 1911 C. Hy. Muesse" on back. Jacob F. Selzer (1888-1917)was the probably photographer. Unusual aspect of this picture is that one of the original log cabins and houses that predated the Amana purchase of Homestead is clearly visible in the background. The cabin and house were demolished not long after - this is one of only two photographs of them that I have seen.