Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Identification Number |
1993.001.005 |
Object Name |
Postcard, Photographic |
Donor |
Nielsen, Ivan |
Description |
Black and white photograph of eight children posing for a portrait. Three older boys are standing in the back row. In front of them, two boys are seated to the left and right with two younger girls in front of them. There is a baby in the center. The boys are wearing various-colored suits; the girls have on the same style of light-colored dress with a darker bow at the collar. The baby has on a light-colored shirt under a darker jumper. The background includes a scene of a valley with trees to the viewer left and a paned and curtained window to the viewer right. The photograph has a 1/4" raised border. On the back, the handwriting says, "Left to right / Ove, Arne, Viggo / Milton, Ivan / Ruth, Norval & Naomi / Nielsen" in one hand and "Thyra Østergaard Nielsen's / Children approximately 1925" in another. |
Print Size |
5.125 x 3.25 |
Creation Date |
c. 1925 |
Associated People |
Østergaard, Kristian Østergaard, Thyra Nielsen, Thyra Østergaard Nielsen, Ove Nielsen, Arne Nielsen, Viggo Nielsen, Milton Nielsen, Ivan Nielsen, Ruth Nielsen, Norval Nielsen, Naomi |
Search Terms |
children baby portrait Østergaard, Kristian Østergaard, Thyra Nielsen, Thyra Østergaard Nielsen, Ove Nielsen, Arne Nielsen, Viggo Nielsen, Milton Nielsen, Ivan Nielsen, Ruth Nielsen, Norval Nielsen, Naomi |
Date Received by Museum |
01/05/1993 |
Provenance |
The photograph shows Ove, Arne, Viggo, Milton, Ivan, Ruth, Norval and Naomi Nielsen, Thyra Østergaard Nielsen's children. It was taken in approximately 1925. Thyra's parents, Kristian and Kristine Østergaard, are on the museum's Wall of Honor. They emigrated in 1878 and 1892, settling in Tyler, Minnesota. Stine (Maren Kristine Svendensen) was Kristian's first wife; together they had six children. Helga was born in 1885 and Thyra in 1890, both in Støvring, Denmark. Thyra Østergaard married Harald (or Harold) Peter Nielsen - the son of Peder Odgaard and Maren Kirstine Nielsen - on June 4, 1911 in a double-wedding with her sister Helga, who married Anton Buhl. Thyra and Harald had nine children and lived on a farm west of Tyler, Minnesota for much of their lives. Anton and Helga lived on an adjacent farm which fronted a road one mile south. Their eight children would often cross the fields between their farm homes to play with the Nielsen children. Thyra Ostergaard Nielsen is on the museum's Wall of Honor, as are Peder Odgaard Kristensen Nielsen and Maren Kirstine Hansen Graesbøll Nielsen. There is additional information about both families in the accession file. |
Images |
175\1993001005.JPG |
Accession number |
1993.001 |