Photo Record
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Metadata
Object Identification Number |
1989.098.089 |
Object Name |
Postcard, Photographic |
Donor |
Dinesen, Hans P. |
Description |
Black and white photograph of three young children with a white border and postcard backing. The older boy seated in the center of a bench with his proper right arm around a younger boy and his proper left arm around a younger girl. The boy on the viewer's left has a flag on his shirt. The girl has a braid with a ribbon in her hair and a flower resting on viewer's right edge of her dress. There is printed text on the back: "The Vandyck Studio, Kingaroy.", POST CARD / CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS ONLY / "KODAK / AUSTRAL". There is also handwritten text on the back: "Kære Mr Dixen / Tak for dit kære brev. Vi / var alle glade for at / læse det. Agnete holder / ogsaa af at gaa i søndags / skole. Hun har ogsaa / lært en text "Lord God / Help Me" og naar du spørge / hende hvad er johannes / text svarer hun "Lord God Help / hannes" eller hvad er en Christian / text saa svarer hun" and "Christian 9 Aar 3 Maaneder / Johannes 5 " 10 " / Agnete 2 " 7 "". |
Print Size |
5 7/16" x 3 7/16" |
Studio |
The Vandyck Studio |
Place of Creation |
Australia/Queensland/Kingaroy |
Associated People |
Dixen, Jens Christian Johannes Agnete |
Search Terms |
Vandyck Studio Australia Queensland Kingaroy Christian Johannes Agnete Flag |
Date Received by Museum |
07/28/1989 |
Provenance |
Shown here are children identified as "Christian, Johannes and Agnete". The photograph was likely taken in Australia. The photograph was given to Danish immigrant, Jens Dixen (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\1989098089.JPG |
Accession number |
1989.098 |