Family Picture of Angelo & Maria Angaran, Italian Immigrants and residents of the Shuler Mining Camp in Waukee, Iowa. Left to Right, Angelo, Jr. ”Jake”; Eatilo “Eak”; Merco, “Mack”; Elizabeth Andreini née Angraran; Frances Andreini,…
Waukee Mine School opened in January, 1926. The School had 2 classrooms. Stoves heated the rooms, stoked with corn cobs soaked in kerosene. Photo of mine school, with teacher, Haze Oliver.
B.A. Patterson's was a local store that delivered groceries. J. H. Carter Store dealt in grains and stock, as well as equipment for mining. Most of the mining families shopped at the stores located at the Shuler Mine camp, however.
Pictured Left to Right: Joseph W. Johnson Jr. on Horse, Joseph W. Johnson Sr., Shuler Mine Superintendent with theodolite, unknown man holding Survey pole.
Miners gathered at the Shuler mining camp tavern after work for a drink, to play cards, and socialize. Children would visit the tavern to buy soda for 5 cents. (Photo -- family behind counter of tavern, left to right: Lucy Lami, Dima Lami, Ferruccio…
