Photo Record
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Metadata
Object Identification Number |
1988.004.017 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Donor |
Sloth, Selma |
Description |
Black and white photograph of women sitting around a table indoors. There are four women seated and one woman standing on the viewer's right about to cut a pastry. The women are wearing both light and dark colored clothing. The table in front of them has a light colored table cloth with cups, a pitcher and a vase of flowers. There are a variety of framed photographs on the wall behind the group and a light fixture above the table. There is handwritten text on the back: "Probably around 1910 / Afternoon coffee at my / grandmothers (Ane Koch) / in the house at the / tile works. She is in / the white blouse in / the center. My mother, / Sigrid is serving at / the right.". |
Print Size |
3 1/16" x 2 1/8" |
Creation Date |
ca. 1910 |
Place of Creation |
United States/Iowa/Audubon County/Kimballton |
Associated People |
Koch, Ane Jakobsen, Ane Koch, Sigrid Kildegaard, Sigrid |
Search Terms |
Iowa Audubon County Kimballton Roxy Clay Works Coffee Koch, Ane Jakobsen, Ane Koch, Sigrid Kildegaard, Sigrid |
Date Received by Museum |
1988 |
Provenance |
Pictured here around 1910, is a group of women having afternoon coffee at the home of Ane Koch (wearing light colored blouse in center), in Kimballton, Iowa. The woman standing has been identified as Sigrid Kildegaard (daughter of Ane Koch). Hans Mikkelsen Koch (1861-1954) was born in southern Jutland in the Slesvig-Holstein area. He was the son of a coppersmith, Jorgen R. Koch, and his mother was Meta Marie Ravenskov Koch. Hans' uncle Peter Christian Koch was at one time the editor of Dannevirke, a Danish newspaper. At 18, Hans fled to Denmark to avoid military service in the German army. He later became an apprentice to a German brickmaker in Denmark, traveling from farm to farm. At the end of this apprenticeship, Hans took a position as brickmaker on a large estate near Askov Højskole in Jutland. It was called Dorotheasminde near the town of Vejen. While working there, Hans met Ane Jakobsen who was a buttermaker on the estate. She was from Vitved, and was the daughter of Simon Jakobsen. They married in 1886. In 1893, Hans and Ane immigrated to the U.S., but when they returned to Denmark because of the depression in the U.S., Hans and his brother Rasmus built a brickyard called Mølledal. In 1908, Hans and Ane and their family returned to the U.S. to stay. Sigrid Kildegaard (born Koch) (daughter of Hans and Ane Koch) was born on September 16, 1888 in Denmark. She first arrived in America with her parents in 1893. The family eventually moved back to Denamrk some time later. She returned to America in 1908 and worked as a nanny. She eventually married Harald Kildegaard on November 16, 1924 and had three children: Eva (still-born in 1925), Agnes (born in 1926) and Selma (born in 1928). By 1967, she had married Otto Buchwald and moved to Edmonton, Alberta in Canada. She eventually died in 1978 in Bellwood, Nebraska. |
Images |
187\198800417.JPG |
Accession number |
1988.004 |