Pop’s Films and Notes
Can 1: Dated 1937-38-39
- Color, family, June 1939
- Family boat 1938
- Fishing in Lake of the Woods
- Mexico hunting and dogs 1937
- Poker game in log cabin in the 9th Avenue house, 1939
Can 2: Dated 1925-1929 and 1929-1930
- Pop’s father and mother (Martin and Anna Adson) in their garden and hiving bees
- Beulah and mother (Anna Adson)
- Mother (Anna Adson) and Georgia
- Gus (West), Lora, and mamma (Anna Adson)
- Daisy
- West children
- Alva (?) children
- Grandma (Anna Adson) and children (Willie, Alf, and Mary)
- Section on Adson family in our living room (9th Avenue house?)
- Grandpa and Ma Adson and children
- Andrew and Mary Adson
- 1929 Christmas party (first at 9th Avenue house)
- Howard May and Joe and Jimmie
- grandchildren 1929
- snow scenes 1929
- Adson children
- snow storm
- Adson home
- spring movies from our new home in Rochester (1930?)
- Mary, Bill, and Marty in 1930
- Lora
- garden about house
- more pictures of children, Lora and Ad (Pop) included
Can 3:
- Boating and water sports at the bathing beach in LakeCity
- Airport ships
- Manahan boys
- Mary, Marty, and Bill
- Miss Goosen and Lora
- Diamond Jubilee 1929
- KentuckyDerby(prob. 1930, Gallant Fox) (several races from the day)
- Fred Raukin
- Ivan Liller
- Bill Benedict
- Adson (Pop)
- Hunting pheasants: Huron hunt, Dr. Fegre/Fegie(?) as guide; Dr. D.C. Balfour, Dr. M.S. Henderson, Dr. J.C. Masson, Dr. Harry G. Wood, etc. (Also known to be there from Mayo magazine photo clipping: Nels Twedt, Dr. E.E. Christensen, and Pop)
- Weld, McGee, and Adson party
Can 4: Dated 1928-1932
- Notes on can lid mention Partens family and Alf’s rabbit
- scene at Frontenac cottage (Linger Longer Lodge)
- Lora and children
- Guss and Evelyn – 6 mos. Old
- Shots of the Adsons and Wests
- Adson and children
- Adsons and Caustens
- Aqua planning (water skiing on a board)
- Marty, Mary, and Bill
- Canada, July 4, 1932
- Falls at FortFrancis
- Canadian border
- Chippewa Indians
- scene from return trip from Canada
- Back at Frontenac
- Caustens visiting – Walter asleep
- Colonial ?
- Miss Stone – Smith
- Bill and Marty (age 4) in 1928
- Miss Baughart
- golf friends
- Gale Whiting and son
- Ski scene south of Rochester – famous ski-jumpers on Golden Hill in 1928
- Family scenes – outing
- Lester Fiegel
Can 5: Dated 1927-1928
- Notes on can lid: Trips through Colorado to San Jose/Big Trees/Mesa Verde/Jaroso/Logging and Mill
- trips to Colorado’s Royal Gorge and Rockies
- Big trees in California
- Mountains west of San Jose
- Mission Hill
- Pacific slope to Carmel and Monterey
- some deer in Big Trees
- Pacific Ocean
- Party from San Jose, CA/Monterey, CA
- Cyprus Point
- San Jose homes
- San Clara (?) fruit trees (orange trees blossoming)
- Mrs. Dohleen, Dr. Dohleen, and Lora
- Grandpa Smith and Lora and strangers
- Mesa Verde Park, CO – Adson family climbing about the ruins
- Visiting Mother (Anna Adson) and Dad (Martin Adson) and relatives in Jaroso
- LoggingSquomisForest
- to ear/wear(?) Lauser (Rauser?) and Fisher guided by Bill Irvine
- Cutting logs for our cabin in 9th Avenue home
- Gus West hewing logs
- Snaking logs up to saw mill
- Adson family visited activities (at the saw mill) during Saturdays
Can 6: Dated 1928
- Fishing party at BassLake, leaving by way of Winton (near Ely)
- Party of Wolthau, Woltman, Doyle, Lernon, Adson and family guide 1928
- Family at fishing lodge/Bill and Marty carrying fish
- Camping lodge
- Cottage – family and Wests; good shots of Lora
- Fishing at Wegens Wilderness Camp
- Called on Indian pow wow in Minnehaha Park, Minneapolis
- Winton, MN
- Huskees – Adsons at Wegens (Evegens?) camp
- Fishing party at Puget Sound - guests of Bill Irvine and Fisher – all met at golf club
- Dr. Broders and Adson hunting at LeechLake – good shoot, came up by river to 4H club
Can 7:
- Neurosurgery
- Neurosurgeons spent Sunday at Frontenac before the meeting Monday and Tuesday before going to AMA meeting in Minneapolis
- Mayo’s boat
Neurologic and neurosurgical staffs – picnic while Learmonth(?) was here
- Miss Skinner from CA; Dr. Thomas from St. Mary’s
- Movies from 1933 open rooms at St. Mary’s
- Craig Fincher and Adson
Can 8: Dated 1931-1932
- Color; family 1931-1932
- Grand Canyon
- West family (Gus and Eleanor, I think)
Can 9:
- no notes inside; labeled outside as: Aug. 30, 1941, RochesterHigh School football practice (Alf’s team), and Nov. 11, 1940 at start of 50-ft blizzard
Can 10: Dated 1937
- Shattuck in May and June 9-10, 1937
- Willie and classmates marching
Reel 1: Dated 1928
- Men logging at old farm (pop’s brother’s farm?)
- Mary, Alf, Willie, and Lora at farm
Reel 2: Dated June (January?) 1929
- fox farm
- Alf and puppies
Reel 3:
- House by EdisonGrade School (before 9th Ave house)
- Building foundations of 9th Ave house
- Kids in and out of frame goofing around
Reel 4:
- Somewhere out in CA (?)
- brief shot of Lora, Grandpa Wellman, and Mabel
- Football game snippet
- Lora feeding deer
- Maybe footage of Yosemite, bears, more of CA (?)
Reel 5:
- 1914-1949 class Reunion (Pop’s) in Philadelphia
Reel 6:
- 1941 fishing in Canada
Reel 7:
- Football at Shattuck
Reel 8:
- 1941 duck hunting (CA or CO? Canada?)
Reel 9:
- More 1941 duck hunting
Reel 10:
- Craig cocktail party – July 1942
- Dr. Love (tall w/mustache)
Grandpa’s Films and Notes
Can 1: Dated 1935
- snow scene/Alf toboganning
- Grandpa Wellman Sr.
- shots looking down 9th Ave
- trek to pheasant feeding grounds
- Wellmans and Adsons and Pichas at 9th Ave
- Picha’s had a cottage just down from the Wellmans at Frontenac
- Marianna Picha (tall w/glasses) next to Grandma
- Grandpa Wellman Sr in shot at far left w/white hat and black hat band
- Grandma Wellman (Edith) in shot just before Lora, Alf, and Eloise Picha (glasses), and then Mabel (young in hat)
- then Marianne Picha, Grandpa, his brother Tom
- Lawrence Picha, Grandpa, Buddy Picha, Willie, and Alf
- Indoor shots of Lora and kids
- Kids at 9th Ave house with Ginger
Can 2: Dated 1936-1940
- At the Cottage in LakeCity
- Alf, older boy, Mary, girl, and Willie
- Canoeing
- Lora with friends and Pop
- Kids on the beach
- Alf skiing at 9th Ave
- Snowball fight and snow scenes from 9th Ave
- Fishing scenes
- Adson family
- Boating scenes from northern MN
- More family, maybe in TX w/grapefruits on Christmas vacation to visit Leland Fiegle (family friend)
- More family scenes
- Willie in Shattuck uniform
- Aqua planing on Lake Pepin
- Boating
- Football game in Armistice Day blizzard 1940
- High school (?) friends of Grandma with Willie in the middle
- More Adsons at the Cottage (film is backwards)
- Friends of Pop’s at Cottage
Can 3: Dated 1944, 1947-48
- Grandma and Daddy as a baby with his Wellman and Adson grandparents
- Grandma Wellman (Edith) in black suit with white collar and black hat
- Grandpa back from the war w/Grandma and Daddy
- G&G and Daddy in snow Dec 1944/Jan 1945
- Granna w/ Daddy and Pop w/Daddy
- Daddy at prefabs (Quonset huts) and Duke
- Party for Pop and Granna’s 40th wedding anniversary at prefabs
Reel 4: Dated 1950-1952
- Scenes at the Cottage w/Linda as a baby, down on the point
- Grandpa Wellman Sr and Alf
- Grandpa Wellman Sr at Cottage for fish fry
- Skating at the Homestead – 1509 Damen Ct. (Grandpa hosed the backyard to make a rink)
- Serious snow fort, tunnel from garage to street
- Bicycling
- Geese at SilverLake
- Susan as a baby
- 1952 building under construction
- Snow bunny at Easter at the Homestead
- More of Susan
Can 5:
- 1952 flood in LakeCity
- Water nearly over the pier
- Linda and Susan playing in kiddie pool at Homestead
- Rainbow at the Cottage over the lake
- Carriers at the lake having a picnic with the Wellmans
- Down on the beach in front of the Cottage
- Grandma sailing the sailboat with Daddy and Linda
- Halloween scenes w/Uncle Alf and Aunt Lois (Lori in white w/her siblings)
- 1952 building in last stages of construction
- Christmas scenes at the Homestead
- Sledding at the Rochester Country Club
- Daddy, linda, and Susan with guns
- Linda’s birthday party
- Swimming in the lake at the pier
- Sigri on the right in pink/red suit
- Corgi at the beach chasing bubbles
Can 6: Dated 1954 – May 1955
- Christmas at Plummer’s Circle
- Granna, Grandpa Wellman Sr, and Vera
- Winter at the Cottage (backwards)
- Fishing contest at the lake
- Linda’s birthday party
Can 7: Summer 1955-February 1956
- Summer up north at Itasca State Park (stayed at Vera’s cabin)
- At Itasca with Vera and Grandpa Wellman Sr around the 4th of July
- Playing at the Headwaters (where Linda fell in)
- Indians and Itasca Mounds
- Dock out front of Vera’s cabin fishing on lake near Itasca
- Vera’s cabin w/kids
- Back at LakeCity swimming on the point
- Scenes at the bathing beach
- Christmas at Plummer’s Circle w/Granna and Alf
- Sledding at the Country Club, including Grandma
- Daddy and Russell Fawcett (glasses)
- Chicago Northwestern Depot in Winona
- Trip to Chicago: Adler Planetarium, Museum of Science and Industry, Shedd Aquarium, FieldMuseum, Navy Pier, and Palmer House Hotel
- Trip home by train – shots from the dome car
- Exchange students ( 2 girls) who stayed with the Wellmans for a few days
- Scenes of them boarding buses to East Coast (home)
Can 8:
- Daddy and Linda getting a mud bath on the point
- Boy Scout camping trip to WhiteWaterState Park (between LakeCity and Winona)
- Christmas 1956 at Plummer’s Circle w/Grandpa Wellman Sr.
- Snow scenes in front of Maury Stoph’s house
- Snow fort/igloo destruction
Can 9:
- Bus to Minneapolis for trip to West Coast in 1957
- Billings, Montana depot
- Shafers in Olympia, WA (Maybe Tacoma) w/their kids and house
- Golden Gate bridge
- Disneyland (CA), pirate ship, go carts, Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride
- Los Angeles train depot
- Back at the lake washing the row boat
- Fred w/kids on the beach w/wooden boat and row boat
- Shoveling snow and more of Christmas with Fred
- More sledding at Country Club
- MinnehahaFalls
- Minneapolis airport scene
- Susan’s birthday party
- Squirrels on feeder and snow scenes
- Wellman kids – scene where Grandpa yanks Daddy back into the frame
- Quebec trip – ferry coming across the St. Lawrence river to Quebec City (on island)
Can 10: Dated 1943, 1959-1960
- 1943 – Ft Leonard Wood – Granna, Pop, Alf, Mary, and Grandpa
- some random kids
- 1959-1960: Aunt Charlotte (on far right) w/ G&G, Alf, and Granna
- G&G driving off in neat car
- Daddy as a baby
- Linda just learning to walk toward Daddy
- Granna and Linda
- Daddy walking with Linda at the prefabs
- Skating on the lake (G&G, Daddy, Linda, and Susan)
- Swimming in pool at Cottage
- More ice skating
Can 11: Dated 1960-1965
- Susan’s birthday party
- Linda’s camp in northern MN at LakeHubert
- Back at the pool at the Cottage
- Grandma and Linda on Strutter (Skipper’s mom)
- Squirrels
- Skipper as a colt running around with Strutter – Wellmans and Tiger watching
- 1965 flood in LakeCity
Reel 12: Dated May 1970
- NorthShore water fall
- Duluth harbor scenes
Reel 13: Dated 1970
- Grandma riding Skipper w/Tiger
Reel 14:
- Sully, Aunt Susan, Linda w/Mary, Klaus w/Karl, Mom and Daddy, G&G at Plummer’s Circle
- Klaus filming
- At Vera’s – Mom, Daddy, Grandma, Vera on crutches, Grandpa Wellman Sr in doorway
- Later Grandpa Wellman Jr in the scene