Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Identification Number |
1985.010.013 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Donor |
Cripps, John |
Description |
Black and white photograph of a large light-colored domed building in the background on a hill. In front of it on the slope is the design of the Danish flag with a white cross done in flowers. "Dannebrog" is visible beneath the flag in flowers and there are more words above it. In the viewer's right lower corner is a man in a suit and hat holding a young child. Up the hill to the viewer right, under a palm tree, is a woman with a baby buggy and children sitting on the ground. There is a white border around the photo. Stamped on the back in blue are the words "GENUINE KRYSTAL GLOSS / GUARANTEED FOREVER" above the outline of a bear with "MAY 5 1932" inside it and the words "BEAR PHOTO SERVICE" below. "251" is stamped in the lower right corner. Upside down from the logo, handwritten across the top in green, is "Det danske flag i en af / San Fransiscos anlæg". |
Print Size |
4.375 x 2.625 |
Photographer |
Petersen, Johannes Otto |
Creation Date |
May 5, 1932 |
Place of Creation |
United States/California/San Francisco |
Associated People |
Petersen, Johannes Otto |
Search Terms |
Petersen, Johannes Otto flag Dannebrog San Francisco California |
Date Received by Museum |
12/1984 |
Provenance |
This is one of 34 photos which were originally offered to a Danish Brotherhood Lodge, but later donated to the museum. The photos in this accession relate to the donor's step-father's younger brother Johannes Otto Petersen. Shortly before his death he had given the donor an album of photos taken during his years in the U.S. Johannes Otto Petersen's hometown was Fredericia, Denmark. He worked in the 1920s as a linotypist with the Danish Lutheran Publishing House in Nebraska. On his return to Denmark he spent the rest of his life as a linotypist with Politiken Newspaper. He died in 1982. |
Images |
168\1985010013.JPG |
Accession number |
1985.010 |