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Metadata
Object Identification Number |
2007.041.004 |
Object Name |
Album, Autograph |
Donor |
Flood, Thomas and Rose |
Scope / Description |
Autograph album, horizontally oriented. The front cover of the album is blue and has a design with many different elements: gold-colored flowers/leaves, a decorated title ("ALBUM"), and an oval that shows a color illustration of a young boy holding two kittens, with a dog running along side him. The front cover has a stamp in the (viewer's) upper right hand corner, "MADE IN GERMANY". On the title page is the name "Emma Valentine C. Nielsen", written in ink in cursive. Most of the inner pages have messages to Emma from classmates (all written in Danish). The outside of the back cover is plain. Dimensions: Width: 6.25" Length: 4" PROVENANCE: This autograph album belonged to the donor Rose's mother, Emma Valentina Christiana Nielsen Hinrichsen, and was likely from her time at Nysted Folk School (Højskole) since entries name Nysted along with the date. It was left in Valentina's house after she died. Valentina was born Dec. 8, 1878, in Nysted, Nebraska, and died Sept. 8, 1961, in Mt. Vernon, Missouri. Her mother was Bodil Marie Nielsen, born February 9, 1851 in Dahler, Schlesvig. She immigrated to the U.S. in the first few years of the 1870s, and was married to Niels Nielsen on August 18, 1872 in Nebraska. |
Language of Material |
Danish/English |
Title |
Album |
Date |
1898-1899 |
Dates of Creation |
1898-1899 (notes written to the owner are dated 1898-1899) |
Associated People |
Hinrichsen, Emma Valentina Christiana Nielsen Nielsen, Emma Nielsen, Anna Thompson, Nels Hanson, David Strandskov, H.C. Strandskov, Kirsten Pedersen, Peder Carl Jacobsen, Jacobine Larsen, Alfred Christensen, A. Buhl, Hans Christensen, Hans C. Sørensen, George Smith, Paul Buck, Marie Jacobsen, Alfred Muller, Viggo Rasmussen, Peter Sorensen, Emil T. Michelsen, Peter Oliver Jessen, N.H. Christiansen, Carl Kruse, Niels L. Poulsen, N.E. Buck, Evald R. Strandskov, Laurits Knudsen, Marie |
Search Terms |
autograph album Nysted Folk School Højskole Nysted, Nebraska Davey, Nebraska Alden, Minnesota Lindsay, Nebraska Cordova, Nebraska Newell, Iowa Ethan, South Dakota Hinrichsen, Emma Valentina Christiana Nielsen Nielsen, Emma Nielsen, Anna Thompson, Nels Hanson, David Strandskov, H.C. Strandskov, Kirsten Pedersen, Peder Carl Jacobsen, Jacobine Larsen, Alfred Christensen, A. Buhl, Hans Christensen, Hans C. Sørensen, George Smith, Paul Buck, Marie Jacobsen, Alfred Muller, Viggo Rasmussen, Peter Sorensen, Emil T. Michelsen, Peter Oliver Jessen, N.H. Christiansen, Carl Kruse, Niels L. Poulsen, N.E. Buck, Evald R. Strandskov, Laurits Knudsen, Marie |
Given In Memory Of |
In Memory of Emma Valentina Nielsen Hinrichsen |
Date Received by Museum |
07/24/2007 |
Images |
303\2007041004-9.JPG |
Accession number |
2007.041 |