It is very seldom anymore that I find old pix of early Manning that I don't already have scanned, but boy did I run into one that I've never seen before and none even slightly similar.
As I go through Jon Ahrendsen's suitcase, I find various old used Christmas card boxes with pix.
When I opened the most recent box and started skimming through
them to find the prints that aren't worth scanning or might be duplicates - I just about jumped out of my socks when I saw this image.
I immediately knew it was
taken in Manning and boy does it show close-up scenes I had not seen before.
Again, this is why I wish more Manning connected people would dig out their old boxes of pix & history and get them to me so I can go through them, as I'll probably find something
they had no idea was part of Manning's history.
Taken off the Milwaukee Trestle - so sometime
1915 or a few years later
I'm struggling as to what the huge pile is.
There is a steam engine powered crane just south of the pile with a hopper bin that
a farmer has a wagon under to let gravity flow into it.
I have little captions next to the various highlights.
Perspectives I have that very few people if any have, when it comes to preserving our history.
I've scanned thousands of farm pix over the decades...many of them would be mundane to most people but I see a lot of history in them and can even relate to a lot of them,
having been in farming my whole life and whose father farmed with horses and my great-great-grandfather Kusel, on down to present were farmers.
I often scan many of the farm animal pix in old collections. I know most people will just throw them away and definitely most people won't scan them.
This is a great scene - a bull with harness, and a calf suckling the cow in a pasture.
Other than Wieses in this area you won't see this much anymore.
With artificial insemination, confinement raised cattle, and virtually no pastures this is a definitely a scene from the past and glad to have it.
It is also a perfect image that I always remember about cattle when you are around them - they are very curious and almost always
look at you when next to them - probably mostly because they are looking to see if you are going to give them some hay to munch on.
Here are two pictures scanned from the Ahrendsen collection that I just love.
Horse-drawn seeder - Hugo Ahrendsen on back.
Hugo in front of the barn - note "1909" on the cupola
As best I can tell, this must be the Henry Ahrendsen farm in Section 32 of Ewoldt Township - south of Manning.
Sadly, this is very common with the thousands of country school pix I've scanned - so many with no IDs.
Students in Ewoldt No. 9 - shown above on the map
Hugo Ahrendsen 2nd from left
Students in Ewoldt No. 9
Page 44 of the 2009 Manning Schools history book
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