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Metadata
Object Identification Number |
1993.056.019 |
Object Name |
Postcard, Photographic |
Donor |
Smith, Florence Andersen |
Description |
Green-tinted black and white photograph postcard of a building surrounded by farmland. The light-colored, two-story building is near the back viewer right of the card; it has a long circular drive in front of it. There is one outbuilding visible behind it and a watchtower or water tower to the viewer left of it among the trees. The building sits at the top of a hill, which slopes downward to the viewer left. It has grass and trees on it. There is a fenced-in lot barely visible in the photo's bottom left corner with an animal in it. "ATTERDAG COLLEGE - SOLVANG, CAL." is printed near the bottom right of the photo. The back has a green 1-cent stamp with George Washington's profile in the upper right corner, black marks stamped over it. It is postmarked " CENTERVILLE / OCT 30 / 12 PM / 1920 / S.D." The address is "Mr. C.C. Juhl / Lehigh / Route 1. Iowa". The message written to the left reads: "Saturday Oct. 30th / We are all well / but I have not had / time to write. Will / do so next week / sure. - Peders & Henrys / are using the corn[jne]kers, / and it goes o. R. yet. - / hope the weather will / stay the way it is for / another month! - / With care to all - Namma." |
Print Size |
5.375 x 3.375 |
Creation Date |
10/30/1920 |
Place of Creation |
United States/South Dakota/Turner County/Centerville/Iowa/Webster County/Lehigh |
Associated People |
Juhl, C.C. Namma Andersen, Peder Andersen, Henry |
Search Terms |
South Dakota Turner County Centerville Iowa Webster County LehighCalifornia Santa Barbara County Solvang, California Atterdag College college school farming Juhl, C.C. Namma Andersen, Peder Andersen, Henry |
Date Received by Museum |
04/20/1993 |
Provenance |
The postcard is addressed to Mr. C.C. Juhl in Lehigh, Iowa from Namma in Centerville, South Dakota. She writes about her lack of correspondence, Peder and Henry Andersen's families, and the weather. The scene on the front of the card is of Atterdag College in Solvang, California. ----- Seren Andersen was born on December 31, 1850 near Thisted, Denmark. He came to American in October 1872 and worked as a farm hand in Illinois before returning to Denmark in 1877 due to his ill father. He returned to America in 1878. He lived in Chicago for a time, which is where he married Jorgina Pedersen in 1885. Jorgina was born September 23, 1854 in Nesko, Denmark. She had arrived in Chicago in 1880 and worked as a nurse, maid, and a seamstress in a sweatshop. After they were married, they moved to South Dakota to farm. Their four children are Peder, Mayme, Henry, and Florence. The couple died in the 1930s and are buried in Viborg, South Dakota. Both are on the museum's Wall of Honor. Their son Peder (or Peter) Andersen married Clara Hartvigsen (1889-1984) on October 6, 1909. She was born in Audubon County, and was baptized in the church at Elk Horn as there wasn't a church in Kimballton. They lived at Centerville, South Dakota. Florence Andersen Smith is their daughter. Henry, their second son, was born in 1889. He and his younger sister Florence accompanied their parents on a trip to Denmark, where his sister became ill and died. He married Cecelia Smith of Irene, South Dakota. on September 12, 1912. He took over the land Seren had acquired in 1885 and farmed it. They had seven children: Oscar, Lawrence, Ellen, Mayme, Priscilla, Harry, and Vernon. Henry died on November 21, 1954, and Cecelia survived him and lived in Viborg, S.D. There is additional family history in the accession file. |
Images |
170\1993056019.JPG |
Accession number |
1993.056 |