Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Identification Number |
1989.076.001 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Donor |
Hansen, Agnes Sorensen |
Description |
Black and white photograph of a large group of people on the grounds of the Elk Horn Folk School in Elk Horn, Iowa. The crowd looks like it could include the entire town. In the front row are women and men dressed in Danish folk costumes and military-style uniforms. The row of women in the very front are in dresses and hats, each with a Danish flag on their bodice and holding an American flag on a pole. The rest of the crowd includes men and women of various ages, including some children. Most are wearing hats, and some people carry parasols or umbrellas. There is a fence and line of trees across the back of the photo. The image is mounted on a tan paperboard backing. Printed near the bottom left is "C. Sorensen, Artist." The back has the studio information stamped at the center: "C. SORENSEN, / PHOTOGRAPHER, / Cedar Falls, Iowa." |
Print Size |
12 x 10 |
Studio |
C. Sorensen |
Place of Creation |
United States/Iowa/Shelby County/Elk Horn/Elk Horn Folk School |
Associated People |
Möller, Meta Möller, Lisa Möller, Christian C. Sorensen, C. |
Search Terms |
Shelby County Elk Horn, Iowa Elk Horn Folk School Elk Horn Højskole Elk Horn College Möller, Meta Möller, Lisa Möller, Christian C. united States flag umbrella parasol hats group Danish flag Dannebrog Danish folk costume Sorensen, C. |
Date Received by Museum |
1989 |
Provenance |
This photograph shows the grounds of the Elk Horn Folk School in Elk Horn, Iowa. The three people circled are Meta Möller, Lisa Möller, and Christian C. Möller. ----------------- Elk Horn Folk School The first Danish Folk School in America was founded in Elk Horn, Iowa in 1878. The school served as a magnet for Danish immigrants, drawing them to Elk Horn in great numbers. Historian P.S. Vig estimated that between two and three thousand Danish men and women studied at the school before fanning out across the globe to take up their different positions in life. Many of those associated with Elk Horn's Højskole- students, teachers, and administrators alike- became distinguished names in Danish American history. During the thirty-nine years of existence, the primary identity of the school remained definitively Danish, but through its various reorganizations, it bore testimony to the processes of acculturation. The school's last classes were held in 1917. |
Images |
312\1989076001-3.JPG |
Accession number |
1989.076 |