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Metadata
Object Identification Number |
1989.098.026 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Donor |
Dinesen, Hans P. |
Description |
Black and white composite photograph for Brorson High School in Kenmare was taken by Olsen photography. The photograph contains two large oval portraits atop and surrounded by multiple smaller oval portraits. There are a total of forty-one subjects in the photograph. The subjects are mostly male, with only six females. The males are all wearing dark suits and either neckties or bowties. The women are wearing high-necked dresses and have their hair pulled back. The photograph is attached to a gray colored mat board that has two decorative dark gray borders. There is a studio stamp in the viewer's lower right hand corner: "Olsen, KENMARE, N.D.". The back side of the mat board has an ink stamp that is illegible. |
Print Size |
11 3/4 x 13 3/4 |
Photographer |
Olsen |
Year Range from |
1913 |
Year Range to |
1914 |
Studio |
Olsen |
Place of Creation |
USA/North Dakota/Kenmare/Brorson High School |
Associated People |
Dixen, Jens |
Search Terms |
Dixen, Jens Brorson High School Kenmare, North Dakota school composite school portrait folk school teacher student class Olsen |
Date Received by Museum |
07/28/1989 |
Provenance |
This photograph is of the students and staff at Brorsen High School in Kenmare, North Dakota, taken for 1913-1914. Jens Dixen is the man in the large oval near the top on the viewer's right. According to a note in the accession file from Rolf Buschardt Christensen, Brorson Højskole (High School) was established in the home of Pastor Hans Hansen in 1901. In 1905, a large school building with classroom and dormitories for forty students was erected about five miles north of Kenmare. Brorson Folk High School was named after Bishop Hans Adolf Brorson (1694-1764). The high school was allied with the pietistic United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church. No less than 25 young men became pastors or missionaries because of their time at Brorson. Jens Dixen helped establish the school. He was there from 1903-1907 and 1910-1915. He was principal for seven years. The note has additional information about principals as well as other sources with information on the school. Most of the items in this donation relate to Jens Dixen, a Danish immigrant, preacher, missionary, and teacher. Jens Dixen was born in Southern Jylland (Jutland) at Roibol, Denmark on April 5, 1858, and immigrated to Latimer, Iowa in 1880 or 1881. He settled in Franklin County, Iowa in 1880 or 1881, and converted to Lutheranism in Dows, Iowa in the summer of 1884. He worked through the summers as a tiling contractor, and on the weekends he would preach. During the winter when tiling was not possible, he would make more extended trips all over the U.S. Dixen also taught such topics as Catechism, Bible History, and Mission History to young boys, helping to train them to become preachers and missionaries. Before returning to Denmark for a final time in 1929, he had visited and performed missionary work in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Africa, and India. Dixen attended Elk Horn College (in Elk Horn, IA) for a period, probably during the 1880s. He returned as a featured speaker to the College's 50th anniversary celebration in 1928. Jens Dixen founded the Brorson Folk High School in North Dakota. The school was established in 1901, and a building was built in 1905. It was named after Danish bishop Hans Adolph Brorson (1694-1764), well known for his hymns. Brorson Folk High School was allied with the United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church. Dixen served as principal for seven years. He left his home near Coulter, Iowa in 1902 and settled in Kenmare, North Dakota, where he lived in the one-room house now on the grounds of the Museum of Danish America (located in Elk Horn, IA). In 1910, he married Christine Kruger from Denmark. A note in the file suggests he had an adopted son Marius Dixen. Jens Dixen finished his life in Denmark with his wife Christine, and died in 1931. |
Images |
016\1989098026.JPG |
Accession number |
1989.098 |