SWCE History Pictures
SWCE History Pictures PDF (865 KB)
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| Allen and Agnes Kasper on their Somerset farm in 1938 | A scene from Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric’s 1950 Annual Meeting at the Owatonna Armory | Service vehicles from the early 1950s |
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| The Luther Hanson Group at the 1952 meeting | General Manager Howard L. McKee presents Mr. and Mrs. Norman Loftus from Aurora Township with this new 12.9 cubic ft Kelvinator freezer at the Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric Annual Meeting in 1953 | The 1954 Annual Meeting |
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| A scene from the 1955 Annual Meeting | Hans and Herman Hohrman at the 1958 Annual Meeting | Dedicated men from Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric and crews from around the State, totalling 125 linemen, worked to restore power in the Halloween Blizzard of 1991 |
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| Wrapping up after seven days of hard work in Nov. 1991 | Close-up of the heavy ice that pulled down lines in 1991 | Surveying the damage and the work needed to restore power during the blizzard of 1991 |
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| Our first custom service truck, a 1941 Ford | Bringing the first electric power to the country | Walter Sieman, Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric’s first lineman. Photograph courtesy of Margaret Frost |
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| Linemen working in the Waseca County fog | Storm repair requires long hours |



















