Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Identification Number |
1997.110.024 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Donor |
Bacon, Muriel |
Description |
Color photo of Mille and Andreas Linnet. They are standing outside a building, perhaps a home. The double doors behind them have a sort of garland above them, in the middle of which is a shield-shaped sign with a wreath which reads "TILLYKKE / 50". There are windows to the viewer's right. They are each wearing jackets and are leaning in toward each other as if for a kiss. Mille is on the viewer's left and is also wearing a greenish scarf and has her hair pulled into a bun. Andreas is on the right and has a polka-dotted bowtie. The print has an overall orange tint, and there is a green spot on the windows to the right. On the back is "Her Parents Golden Wedding / Fra mine Svigerforaelder / guldbryllup / Mille og Andreas Linnet / Please Return to Mollie 2/82" (some of the Danish is hard to read and may be slightly different than transcribed). Stamped on the back are some numbers: "9 9 0 0 0 0 3 1 3". |
Print Size |
3 3/8 x 3 3/8 |
Associated People |
Linnet, Mille Linnet, Andreas |
Search Terms |
Linnet, Mille Linnet, Andreas Golden Wedding Anniversary anniversary wedding kiss couple |
Provenance |
This photograph is of Andreas and Mille Linnet on the occasion of her parent's golden wedding anniversary. 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\1997110024.JPG |
Accession number |
1997.110 |