Photo Record
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Metadata
Object Identification Number |
1989.098.049 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Donor |
Dinesen, Hans P. |
Description |
Black and white photograph of two children on a gray background. There is a young boy on the viewer's left. He is wearing dark colored clothes/shoes except his light colored shirt and collar of jacket. His proper left hand is resting on the arm of a wicker chair. To the viewer's right is a young girl. She is wearing dark colored clothes/shoes except a light colored lace collar. She is also wearing bows in her braided hair. Her proper right arm is resting on the arm of the wicker chair. There are painted bricks in the backdrop behind them. |
Print Size |
5 15/16" x 7 15/16" |
Associated People |
Dixen, Jens |
Search Terms |
Dixen, Jens Children |
Date Received by Museum |
07/28/1989 |
Provenance |
The children pictured here remain unidentified but are likely associated with 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\1989098049.JPG |
Accession number |
1989.098 |