Photo Record
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Metadata
Object Identification Number |
1997.110.025 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Donor |
Bacon, Muriel |
Description |
Color photo of Andreas and Mille Linnet with their four sons. They are all standing in the corner of a room, with orange and white walls behind them and oak colored beams above. The man on the viewer's left is wearing a white long sleeved collared shirt and dark pants. Andreas is next to him and is wearing a dark shirt and gray pants. Another son is behind Andreas and Mille, but you can only see the man's head and that he has on a light colored shirt. Mille is wearing a dark colored long sleeved shirt and pants. The man next to Mille is wearing a long sleeved white shirt with a tie and gray pants, and the man on the far right end has on a reddish sweater and gray pants. Mille and Andreas are looking at each other and laughing and smiling. In the foreground is the arm of a chair with greenish-yellow upholstery. On the back is "Please Return / to Mollie / Vi og vore / Drenge / Mille Andreas Linnet / and their 4 sons / Andreas 33 / Oskar 31 / Morton 29 / Henrik 25" and "1982". There are light grayish-blue watermarks running across the back which read "THIS PAPER / MANUFACTURED / BY KODAK". |
Print Size |
3 1/2 x 3 1/2 |
Creation Date |
1982 |
Associated People |
Linnet, Andreas and Mille Linnet, Andreas Linnet, Oskar Linnet, Morton Linnet, Henrik |
Search Terms |
Linnet, Andreas Linnet, Mille Linnet, Oskar Linnet, Morton Linnet, Henrik family parents children |
Provenance |
The subjects of this photograph are Mille and Andreas Linnet and their sons, Andreas, Oskar, Morten, and Henrik (Henrik is the man on the viewer's far right). The photograph was taken in 1982. 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\1997110025.JPG |
Accession number |
1997.110 |