Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Identification Number |
2006.035.003a |
Object Name |
Page, Album |
Donor |
Unruh, Sharon |
Description |
Black page of a photograph album with a picture attached to either side - one of a class doing gymnastics and the other of a church gathering. GYMNASTICS SIDE Black and white photograph of a group of twenty-nine female gymnasts doing exercises on the floor of a gym. They are all wearing the same uniform, which appears to be a dark shirt with a light-colored logo on the front. Each is kneeling and bending backward, arms outstretched. The photo has a white border and written at the bottom is "De Moines, Iowa". CHURCH SIDE Black and white photograph of many cars and people by a light-colored clapboard church and another building. There is a long line of over twenty early 20th-century style cars parked next to each other and others scattered throughout the field, with people milling around. The church's side is facing the camera and its steeple is to the viewer right. Between the church and other building on the viewer right are two flags - Dannebrog and the American flag. The photo has a white border and written on the paper at the bottom is, "Our church at home." |
Print Size |
7.75 x 5.5 |
Place of Creation |
United States/Iowa/Polk County/Des Moines/Montana/Sheridan County/Dagmar |
Associated People |
Unruh, Sharon |
Search Terms |
United States Iowa Polk County Des Moines, Iowa Montana Sheridan County Dagmar, Montana exercise athletics female gymnast gymnastics Grand View College Grand View University Nathaniel Lutheran Church religion church vehicle car flag American flag Danish flag Dannebrog |
Given In Memory Of |
Dagmar Jensen |
Date Received by Museum |
07/13/2006 |
Provenance |
One of the photographs shows a gymnastics class at Des Moines, Iowa - probably at Grand Viewer College (now university). The other photograph shows a gathering at a church, likely the Nathaniel Lutheran Church in Dagmar, Montana. ------- Emil Christiansen was born September 14, 1864 in Aarhus, Denmark. His father was Erik Kristjansen and his mother was Jensine. Emil immigrated October 12, 1888, and entered the U.S. at the Port of Detroit, Michigan via the Montreal Canada Grand Trunk Railway to Detroit, which arrived November 10, 1888. He immigrated with two older brothers, Jens Peter and Sam, and they planned to work on buildings for the World's Fair. He married fellow Dane Karen Lauridsen on January 1, 1900 in Chicago, Illinois. Their daughter Dagmar was born there. While in Chicago, Emil worked as a carpenter but had to stop for health reasons. He tried dairy farming in Wisconsin - his application for citizenship is dated June 23, 1904 in Clarke City - and then moved west to farm. He homesteaded on SE Sec. 34, T33N, R57E, April 1907 in Dagmar, Montana. There, Emil and Karen raised five children: Dagmar Elizabeth (1900), Esther Marie (1904), Ingeborg Margaret (1907), Helga Emilia (1911) and Ejnar Vermund (1914). His naturalization papers are dated June 18, 1912 in Glasgow, Valley City, Montana, aged 48 years. Emil died in Williston, North Dakota on June 15, 1944. Karen went to Williston to stay with Helga, then to Grenora with Dagmar. She died in 1961. Both are buried in the cemetery at the Nathaniel Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dagmar, MT, which was organized in 1907; Emil had served as its first Council Secretary and was president from 1920-1930. |
Images |
079\2006035003a.JPG |
Accession number |
2006.035 |
Collection |
Art / General |