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Object Name |
Gown, Baptismal |
Donor |
Powell, Norman and Emma |
Description |
White christening or baptismal dress/gown. The family has framed the dress. The frame is brown wood with gold trim around the glass. The backing is bright blue fabric. The dress is white, long sleeved, and has a very long skirt. There is a small layer of lace at the neck and lace with ribbon through it on the chest and on each cuff. Embroidered work is on the chest between the neckline and the ribbon area. Also embroidery work on the skirt beginning about halfway down. The embroidered areas go horizontally around the skirt and alternate with rows of puckered (?) lines as they approach the hem, which is scalloped. Dress is somewhat pleated at the ribboned area on the chest. Dress is tacked to the blue fabric. There is now Melinex between the dress and the blue fabric. It, too, is tacked to the fabric in order to stay in place. |
Dimensions |
W-6.25 L-40 inches |
Year Range From |
1880 |
Year Range To |
1882 |
Place Of Origin |
Denmark |
Owned By |
Sorensen, Sorine Jorgine |
Used By |
Sorensen, Sorine Jorgine/Powell, Michael/Powell, Kathleen |
Material |
cotton ? |
Associated People |
Sorensen, Sorine Jorgine Sorensen, Christian and Ane Sorensen, Christine Sorensen, Helga Petersen, Niels Frederick Petersen, Edith Petersen, William Petersen, Alice Petersen, Camila Petersen, Helga Petersen, Victoria Petersen, Emma Petersen, Harold Petersen, Jerome |
Search Terms |
Sorensen, Sorine Jorgine Sorensen, Christian and Ane Sorensen, Christine Sorensen, Helga Petersen, Niels Frederick Petersen, Edith Petersen, William Petersen, Alice Petersen, Camila Petersen, Helga Petersen, Victoria Petersen, Emma Petersen, Harold Petersen, Jerome Danebod Lutheran Church Tyler, Minnesota Nr. Felding Kirke christening baptismal gown church religion |
Provenance |
The dress belonged to Sorine Jorgine Sorensen, the daughter of Christian and Ane Sorensen of Nr. Felding, Denmark. They lived on a dairy farm which was owned by two well-to-do sisters. Christian was the manager of the farm. When Sorine was eleven, she and her parents and two sisters (Christine and Helga) left Denmark for the United States, arriving in 1892. They settled in Tyler, Minnesota. Christine and Helga married later and moved to Washington state. In 1908, Sorine married Niels Frederick Petersen, also an immigrant. Niels arrived in the U.S. in 1887, and then farmed for a number of years in South Dakota before moving to Tyler. In Tyler, he served for a time as mayor, then as a policeman. He was appointed to the job of Post Master by President Calvin Coolidge in 1928, and served in this job until his death in 1932. Niels and Sorine had nine children. All nine children were baptised at Danebod Lutheran Church in Tyler wearing the christening dress. One of Niels and Sorine's children, Emma, married Norman Powell (the donors) and two of their children, Michael Jessie and Kathleen Jorgine, were baptised in it. |
Date Received by Museum |
04/25/2005 |
Images |
073\2005021001.JPG |
Collection |
Danish Communities / Minnesota |
Accession number |
2005.021 |
Object Identification Number |
2005.021.001 |