This original cabinet photo depicts the four men who left Pella Iowa in 1869 to go far northwest to what would become Sioux County, Iowa, and staked out the town of Orange City, Iowa. The include Hendrick Jan Van De Waa, Jelle Pelmulder, and two other young men, Huibert Muilenberg and Sjoerd Sipma.  Dutch settlers in Iowa play a significant part of some of the expansion and the founding of Orange City was no different. There is another digitized version of this photo out there, but this one is an original and rather peculiar, having survived to show the historical town fathers of Orange City.

The photo measures: 10 x 8.25" 

Photo Condition: The following is my subjective view in trying to describe condition of an antique photo, and as it’s not reasonably feasible for me to write the 50 pages it would take to describe every literal tiny issue on this, please know you are buying a photo of old age with condition issues.  This photo may have condition issues of the following, BUT NOT LIMITED TO: scuffing, abrasion, knicks, marks, surface loss to the emulsion, cracks, scrapes, gouges, water damage, bowing or warpage, tears, delamination of the backing, rounded or broken corners, loss to the backing board, etc. It’s an old photo, now over 130 years old.