Carver’s Broadway, facing south, is filled with wagons during a city celebration in this historic photo. (Courtesy of John von Walter)

East Union Swedish Lutheran Church’s 50th birthday is commemorated in this 1908 postcard, with an inset of the Rev. S.G. Swenson.

Cars line up around City Square Park in Chaska for a celebration in the 1920s. Also in the photograph is what appears to be a horse-drawn popcorn wagon. All the light poles have been wrapped with garland for the event.

John F. Brinkhaus and a cow on Jaspers farm. Do you know any more about this photograph? Send editor Mark Olson an e-mail at [email protected] or call (952) 345-6574. (Photo courtesy of the Chaska Historical Society)

Thsi may be Chaska’s original girl band, with Carrie Ilitis, Louise Klammer, Emma Peters and Hattie Hoffman (pictured left to right) performing at the Klammer House, 302 Walnut Street, on Aug. 12, 1901. (Photo courtesy of the Chaska Historical Society)

Pictured is a stereoscope of Second Street West in 1885. The photo was possibly taken from the top of the current-day Dunn Bros Coffee building at the southeast corner of Highway 41 and Second Street. The temporary archway at the far left possibly indicates the 1885 dedication of Guardian Angels Guardian Angels Catholic Church.

A group of skiing enthusiasts gather on Bender’s Hill on the road to Excelsior in this Werner Studio photograph, taken circa 1930. Pictured left to right, front row: Ruth Garvin, Ruth Odell, Bill Odell, Kermit Brown and Marian Werner. Second row: Ruth Klammer, Naomi Haupert, Mrs. Oscar Iltis, Evangeline Haupert, K.K. Klammer, Bill Klammer, Paul Klammer and Oscar Iltis. (Photo from the collection of the Chaska Historical Society)

This photo, taken by Chaska’s Werner Studio, is the Schnitzelbank Club’s “Goodbye Feed.” Pictured left to right (front row): Paul Tietz, Peter Kartes, Oscar Lundstrom, Art Lahl, Paul Kayeska, Paul Gastler and Bill Burkhart; (back row) Frank Geisler, Oswald Muyres, Bill Holtz, Bill Baer, Frank Gastler, Conrad Happ, Francis Meukel, Herman “Spitz” Darsow, Irwin Schmidt, “Hook” Meyer, Otto Gastler, Elmer Young and Butch Gehl. The civic organization ran from about 1912 to 1923, and sponsored a number of dinners and dances.