Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Identification Number |
1990.069.012 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Donor |
Wandel, Ken and Margaret |
Description |
Black and white photograph of a young woman - Ingeborg (Andersen) Nielsen - wearing a costume patterned after Dannebrog, the Danish flag. There is a light-colored cross up and down across the dress, and the background fabric is a darker color - presumably white and red. There are flowers draped along her hem and collar, and she has flowers in her light-colored bushy hair as well. She is holding a Danish Sisterhood of America banner to the viewer left - it is also patterned to look like Dannebrog, with "DSS" down and "DL N.6" across. She is standing on a patterned rug, with a chair behind her to the viewer right and a radiator to the left. There is a light-curtained window on the wall above the radiator and a painting above the chair. The photo is mounted on a dark paperboard backing. Handwriting on the back in the lower right corner reads, "Ingeborg Andersen / Omaha Nebr." A white paper label is also on the back, with the numbers "22679". |
Print Size |
6 x 7.875 |
Creation Date |
20th century |
Place of Creation |
United States/Nebraska/Douglas County/Omaha |
Associated People |
Andersen, Ingeborg Nielsen, Ingeborg Andersen |
Search Terms |
Douglas County Omaha, Nebraska Danish flag Dannebrog Danish folk costume Andersen, Ingeborg Nielsen, Ingeborg Andersen Danish Sisterhood of America Lodge 6 DSS Lodge Number 6 Danner Lodge |
Date Received by Museum |
09/27/1990 |
Provenance |
This photograph shows the Andersen farm in Denmark. See file for additional information. -------------------- Ingeborg (née Andersen) Nielsen was born on 7 August 1886 to Jens and Marie Andersen. She grew up in the village of Hjelmager, about 20 miles north of Aarhus in northern Jutland, Denmark. Lars Nielsen was born to carpenter Niels Nielsen and Mette Kirstine Rasmussen in Svendstrup, Denmark on 24 January 1883. Lars and Ingeborg immigrated to the U.S. in 1905 and settled in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1908, Lars purchased a small dairy farm in an area known as Carter Lake in Iowa. Shortly thereafter, Lars and Ingeborg married. They had four daughters. Their oldest daughter, Meta Christina Nielsen, died in 1922 at the young age of 10. Ingeborg was an active member of the Danish Sisterhood in Omaha and served as secretary for 25 years. In 1925, marking the 20th year in the U.S., the family visited Denmark as part of a Danish Brotherhood excursion. Lars died in 1929 and Ingeborg died in 1967 at the age of 80. |
Images |
216\1990069012.JPG |
Accession number |
1990.069 |