Object Record
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Metadata
Accession number |
2004.092 |
Object Identification Number |
2004.092.018 |
Object Name |
Marble |
Donor |
Thomsen, Soren and Rhea |
Description |
One of 60 black glass marbles used in a voting or ballot box. Solid black with a shiny glaze. All 60 are identical. Part of a set of black and white marbles numbering 128. |
Dimensions |
Dia-0.5 inches |
Owned By |
Danish Brotherhood Lodge 161 |
Used By |
Danish Brotherhood Lodge 161 |
Material |
glass |
Search Terms |
Danish Brotherhood Lodge 161 Ruskin, Nebraska |
Provenance |
These marbles go with the ballot box (2004.92.1). According to DBIA records on file at the Museum's FHGC, DBIA Lodge #161 was organized in Ruskin, Nebraska on June 27, 1903. The following information was obtained during a phone conversation with donor Soren Thomsen held on December 20, 2004. Lodge #161 is still active. Its members meet once monthly with the exception of June and July, which traditionally have been busy farming months in the Ruskin area. Mr. Thomsen does not know how long the Lodge can go on, however. The population continues to diminish. The farms grow increasingly larger, several thousand acres, and area population diminishes proportionately. Young people tend to move to the larger cities where they can find work. These artifacts from Lodge #161 were given to the Museum so that the early history of the Lodge could be preserved while there are still people there who remember that history. (Barbara Lund-Jones, Curator) Historical materials from the Lodge were given to Thomas Hansen, member of the Museum's Board of Directors, to distribute as appropriate. These artifacts were passed on to us and the Lodge's records were passed to the Danish Immigrant Archive at Dana College in Blair, NE. Soren Thomsen's parents, Jens Christian and Inger Thomsen, were both Danish immigrants. Jens was born in 1883 in Jutland, Denmark and immigrated in 1908. He died in 1952 in Bostwick, Nebraska. During his life he was a farmer norther of Bostwick. Inger was born in Mov, Denmark in 1888, and came to the U.S. in 1906. She and Jens married in 1916. Inger died in 1976. |
Images |
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Date Received by Museum |
11/29/2004 |
Collection |
Danish Communities / Nebraska |