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This listing is for a c1910 Pequot Lakes, Minnesota baseball team real photo postcard. Add this rare piece of central Minnesota baseball history to your collection today.
Approximate size: 5.4 inches x 3.4 inches
Back when this postcard was made, the town was only called Pequot. In 1940, the name was changed toPequot Lakes.Two possible explanations for the town's name:
1. The local historian Carl Zapffe suggests that a variation of the Chippewa word for arrow (bikwas), as listed by Father Barroga in his Chippewa dictionary, gave rise to the word Pequot.
2. In a 1936 interview, Laurence Anderson, who moved to the town in the mid-1890s, gave the following explanation. "A daughter of 'Waubanaquot,' Chief of the White Earth tribe, was named 'O-Pequot' and lived north of the town on the north end of Sibley Lake. She graciously allowed her dugout home to be used as a school and a church for the early settlers of the town. When she died, she was buried in the town cemetery.
Because there was already a town named Sibley in southwest Minnesota, the U.S. Post Office said the second Sibley had to take a new name. In any event, the town officially became Pequot in 1902.There is a name written on the back: "Ole Risnes." After some digging, I found out that Ole Risnes was a man who lived in Pequot (named Sibley even before Pequot - the name was changed then because there were two towns named Sibley at the time). He was born in Norway c1877. He was married to Inga Risnes and had a son and daughter, Clarence andLorraine.
It's unknown which in the photo Ole is, although at the year c1910, he would've been 33, so perhaps more likely to be the coach than one of the players. It's plausible that the man who I would assume to be the coach featured to the left in the photo is Ole.
Please inspect the pictures, as they give the best representation of condition.May have discoloring, edge or corner wear, marks, creases, fading, smudges, corner or edge bends, tears, or corners missing.
In particular, there is a small rip along the bottom edge, some discoloration, and a small crease along the top-middle.
(C22 inventory number)
