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Padded hardcover autograph album, horizontally oriented. Has a plum colored velvet-covered front and back with designs. On front is "ALBUM" diagonally at the upper left with a floral design at the lower right. Other scrolled and geometric designs are elsewhere on front and back. Inside the front cover is written in ink "Christian Hemmingsen." and in pencil just below "Alden, / Minn." Inside are numerous messages written, most dated and signed. Unnumbered, unlined pages.
6 3/4 x 4 3/8
PROVENANCE: This album belonged to the donor's father Christian Laurits Hemmingsen and was signed by his Grand View College (now University) classmates in 1898-99.
Christian married Camilla Petersen Hemmingsen. The two later moved to Omaha in 1905. Camilla was a member of the Danish Sisterhood lodge #6 for about 75 years.
Christian's parents, Hemming Frederick Hemmingsen and Margrete Larsen Hemmingsen, immigrated to the U.S. in 1878.