Pete Andreini is kneeling by a garden at the Shuler Mining camp in front of a tool shed that was later converted into an automobile repair shed. Gardening was essential to many mining camp families’ overall food supply. A large portion of a…
Babies born at the Shuler mine camp were typically born with the help of women and self-taught midwives. Often, the mine doctor arrived afterwards to write the birth certificate. Pictured: Pete Andreini and family, ca. 1927
This is a picture of Peter Klaaren in his World War I uniform with his brother Aber. Klaaren hailed from West Des Moines Township in Mahaska County, Iowa. Klaaren is one of several men who served his country in World War I from Mahaska County,…
