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Title: Adam Clemens house Amana
Notes: Provenance: Purchased from Peter Hoehnle.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-012
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Amana Brickyard
Date: 1898
Notes: Description: Photograph, mounted on card stock, 3 _ X 4 5/8 and is identified and dated, in ink, on the back. Several men are pictured next to what was likely the drying shed for the brick. A horse is hitched to what looks to be the clay mixer and two oxen are nearby pulling a cart.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-014
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Amana General Store, Amana, Iowa, ca. 1900
Date: 1897-1903
Notes: Description: Photograph of Amana General Store-Amana, Iowa, This image dates to around 1900. The stone portion of this building, still (2012) used as a general store, was built in 1858.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-067
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Amana General Store, ca. 1890 looking from east to west
Notes: Description: Image is 3 x 4 and mounted on card. The stone portion of this building was built in 1858. The General Store is still standing and continues as a general store (2012).
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-011
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Amana General Store, ca. 1900
Notes: Description: Image is 3 x 3 and mounted on card. This shows part of west wall of the building and front facade. The stone portion of this building was built in 1858. The frame wing housed the Amana Society main office for many years following the end of the communal system. The building today (2012) continues to house a general store.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-007
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Amana Meeting House
Date: 1900
Notes: Description: Amana meeting house, 1900, taken facing east. This shows the wooden living quarters and women's entrance as well the long stone faade of the main meeting house (church) in Amana which was built in 1864. The image is 3 X 4 and mounted on an embossed cream colored card that is 4.5 X 5.5. Notation on back reads "Saal 1900".
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-059
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Amana Pharmacy
Date: 1890-1899
Notes: Description: View of the Amana Pharmacy with grinding windmill, tower for Pepsin production and an original pre Amana farm house. Photograph is probably the work of Adolph Siegrist, a sometime member of the Society, whose work was primarily done in the 1890s.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-036
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Amana Pharmacy Building with windmill in back and brick tower used in production of Pepsin
Notes: Description: Photographs of the windmill are uncommon as it was removed around 1890. Photograph mounted on a card; the image is 4 3/8 X 6 3/8 inches. Not a sharp image.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-019
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Amana Pharmacy Building with windmill in back and brick tower used in production of Pepsin
Date: 1814-1884
Notes: Description: Photographs of the windmill are uncommon as it was removed around 1890. Photograph mounted on a card. The image is 4 3/8 X 6 3/8 inches. Not a sharp image.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-017
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Amana Schulhaus
Date: 1900
Notes: Description: Interesting view, taken from second floor of Trautmann House in Amana looking east. Visible in the middle four ground is the back of a brick ash house. In photo center is the back of the school building for the lower grades and, at extreme right, the building used by the upper grades. Three buildings of the Amana main street are visible in the background. This image dates from around 1900 (one of the visible buildings has a construction date of around 1898) 4 3/16 X 3 2/16 mounted on a card that is 5 3/8 X 4 . $75.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-005
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Amana Woolen Mill
Notes: Description: Larger format image of the interior of the office at the Amana Woolen Mill in December 1899. This is one of a series of images made by an unknown photographer of the woolen mill interior. The picture shows three men (all identified on the reverse). One of the men is Charles Moershel, the manager of the woolen mill from 1859 until 1903. Moershel is seated at his desk in a corner of the space, which appears to have also been used for packaging finished product.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-046
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Amana Woolen Mill
Date: 1923-08
Notes: Description: Nice view of smokestack reflected in mill race and of the original stone factory building. Shows an early view of the woolen mill which shows the 1891 weaving building and 1896 smokestack, but not an 1908 addition. These buildings are still (2012) standing and partially used as a woolen mill.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-003
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Amana Woolen Mill from across Mill Race
Date: 1896-1908
Notes: Description: Photograph shows woolen mill from across mill race. Visible are the weaving and carding buildings, the power house and the smokestack. Photograph was taken between construction of smokestack in 1896 and construction of weaving building addition in 1908. Image is 3 X 4, original photograph mounted on card stock, taken ca. 1903 - 1908.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-002
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Amana Woolen Mill, ca. 1910
Date: 1903-1949
Notes: Description: Amana Woolen Mill. Weaving building at left, spinning building and smokestack and power plant at right.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-051
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Amana barnyard [three photos]
Date: 1910
Notes: Description: Album page with three images attached to it, all early prints a. View of the Amana farm yard, c. 1910. Image shows the farm yard, with homes in the background. Several wagons are fathered in the middle of this winter scene. 3.5 X 4.5. B. Street scene of three wagons and teams on a street in Amana. Joseph Prestele house in background, taken from the yard of the Amana cabinet shop. The large oak tree growing on the corner of the street is still there today, and a local landmark. Picture is 3 1/4 X 5. C. View of the woolen mill, side branch of the mill race, Amana hotel and several homes. This image dates to around 1910, after the tall smokestack was built at the woolen mill but before the 1923 fire that destroyed the flour mill. Bucolic scene with grape arbors and two bridges spanning the canal.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-045
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

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 houses on Main St.
Notes: Provenance: Purchased from Peter Hoehnle.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-052
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: Amana school house
Date: 1890-1899
Notes: Description: Picture showing the two buildings of the Amana School. The building on the left is currently part of the Amana Heritage Museum. The image is 3 1/4 square and is mounted on a gray embossed card that is 5.5 square. No date or markings (other that my own identification on back), but likely 1890s.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-047
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

Title: Baker unloading large loaves of bread from a bake oven
Date: 1915
Notes: Description: Glossy 8 X 10 print from an original, damaged, negative, of a baker unloading large loaves of bread from a bake oven, presumably the one in main Amana. The image is very clear, but with some unfortunate surface damage to the original negative in the area of the man's head and just behind him. Original image probably dates to around 1915, although, as noted, this is a modern print.
Geography: Amana (Iowa), Iowa County (Iowa), Iowa
Identifier: yhm-spe-ama-pho-043
Is part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies Collection, Amana Society Collection

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