Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Identification Number |
1997.110.021 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Donor |
Bacon, Muriel |
Description |
Black and white photo of Andreas Linnet. He is turned slightly to the viewer's right and is looking at the camera and smiling. He is wearing a suit coat over a zip-up sweater with a fold down collar, and a shirt and tie. On his left breast is a pin of some sort. He is looking at the camera and smiling. The edges of the print are scalloped. There is a studio mark on the bottom in the center which reads "O. Michaelsen & S. Høj / OLLERUP". On the back is a small message in Danish including the date "d.5.9.1944" and the signature "Andreas Linnet". |
Print Size |
2 1/4 x 3 1/8 |
Creation Date |
September 5, 1944 |
Studio |
O. Michaelsen & S. Høj |
Place of Creation |
Denmark/Ollerup |
Associated People |
Linnet, Andreas |
Search Terms |
Linnet, Andreas O. Michaelsen & S. Høj Ollerup, Denmark portrait |
Provenance |
This photograph is of Andreas Linnet. The date is either September 5 or May 9--there are just numbers at the top ("d. 5.9.1944"). Muriel Bacon married Ove Muller June 1, 1939. Muriel married Ove Muller 1939. In the late 1940s, Andreas Linnet visited Kimballton with a Danish gymnastics team and stayed with Muriel. He told her that he was going to be married soon. Muriel decided to give the couple the wedding dress she wore in 1939 since Denmark was struggling after World War II. Andreas married Mille in 1947. The couple had four sons: Andreas, Henrik, Morten, and Oskar. Muriel and Andreas stayed in touch and exchanged photographs. In winter of 2016, Museum of Danish America intern Vincent Henriksen recognized Henrik Linnet in one of the photographs; Henrik was the father of one of Vincent's ex-girlfriends. Henrik still had the dress in his possession, and donated it to the museum (see 2017.003). When the dress arrived in the U.S., Executive Director John Mark and Vincent took the dress to Muriel so that she could see it. Vincent's account of the discovery, which was featured in the Spring 2017 America Letter, the Harlan Newspapers Special Section, and on the museum's intern blog, is in the accession file. Muriel Bacon's mother was Nettie Thomsen, and her father was Thomas B. Thomsen. The couple had ten children. Her maternal grandfather was Hans J. Jorgensen, who was born in Denmark and who helped found Kimballton. |
Images |
039\1997110021.JPG |
Accession number |
1997.110 |