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| During Elk Horn’s annual TivoliFest the Family History & Genealogy Center (FHGC) displays photographs on a theme related to Danish immigrants. In past years the photo displays have been: 2004: “A Smorgasbord of Danish Immigrants" 2005: “Orange Blossoms and Lace” – wedding photographs of Danish immigrants 2006: “There’s No Place Like Home” – images of the homes immigrants left behind and the ones they made in the New World The theme of the 2007 display will be Danish immigrants who served in the military in both Denmark and the U.S. If you have a photograph of an immigrant soldier, sailor or airman you would like to share, please contact Michele McNabb at librarian@danishmuseum.org before May 1, 2007. The following is a sampling of photographs from the 2006 display. Enjoy! |
| 1. Andrew Vithen grew up on this family farm in Lading (Aarhus County) in east central Jutland. The family changed their name from Pedersen in 1905. Andrew came to the U.S. in the late 1880s. He first came to Omaha, and then settled in Shelby County, where he operated the general store in Poplar and lived on a farm south of that community. (photo courtesy of Jeanette Knudsen) [photo 1: JK-Vithen farm Lading] |
| 2. This modest building in Lild Strand, near Klim (Thisted County) in northwestern Jutland, now used as a barn, was the birthplace of Mads Larsen Bollesen in 1864. In the spring of 1888 Mads and the brother of his future wife, Karen Maria Uth, left for Rock County, Minnesota. Karen joined them later that year. Mads and Karen were married in 1890 and two years later moved to Lincoln County, where a Danish colony was being established around Tyler. The Bollesens established a farm, which they called “Solside” (Sunnyside) – shown in the large picture ca. 1897 -- even though the land was not the best. In early years they suffered hail storms and drought, but were supported by a strong community of other immigrants. (photos courtesy of Ellen Uth Juhl, and Alma K. Miller) [photo 2: AKM-Mads Bollesen Thisted DK] [photo 2a: AKM-Mads Bollesen, Lincoln Co MN] |
| 3. This photograph from around 1909 shows the home and family of Martin P. Henricksen. The house was built by immigrant carpenter Carl V. Andersen in 1905. The Danish architecture in Copenhagen, Denmark, inspired Andersen to design this house with its tower and ‘sunburst’ trim. It is located a half mile south of Poplar, Iowa. Martin Henriksen was born in Lintrup parish (Haderslev County) in southern Jutland, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1891. He married Frederikka Jensen, with whom he raised six children. It was later owned by A. P. Vithen, whose Danish home is shown elsewhere in this display. The present owner is Brian Klendo. (photograph courtesy of Virginia Johnson) [photo 3: VJ-Martin P. Henricksen] |
| 5. The childhood home of Rasmus B. Nielsen in Mollerup (Aarhus County). Rasmus and his wife Gertrud Christensen settled on this farmstead in Dannebrog, Howard County, Nebraska, in 1878. (photos courtesy of Edna N. Bellows) (photos courtesy of Edna N. Bellows) [photo 5: ENB-Rasmus Nielsen Mollerup] [photo 5a: ENB-Rasmus Nielsen Dannebrog] |
| 4. The Thorvald G. and Mette Overgaard Muller farm near Elyria, Nebraska, ca. 1905. They are standing by the fence with their daughter, Dagny, in the high chair. (photograph courtesy of Kent M. Rasmussen) [photo 4: KR-TG Muller, Elyria NE] |
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| 6. Edvard K. Andersen was born in this house in the hamlet of Lidstrup, in Tingsted parish on the island of Falster (Maribo County). The house was called “The Comb-Maker’s House,” due to the occupation of Edvard’s father, Niels Andersen. Note the comb at the top of the flagpole. Niels Andersen was also the ancestor of artist Clint Hansen, whose art work was featured at the Museum in 2006. After immigrating, Ed Andersen married Dorothy Lacy. They purchased their first farm in 1941. Shown here, it was located in Audubon Township, Audubon County. In 1947 they purchased what became known as “the homeplace” in Douglas Township. Ed constructed many of the buildings seen in the aerial photograph. After Ed and Dorothy moved into Audubon, their son John, and later their daughter Doris Christensen owned the property. The farmhouse burned down in 2002. The land is still being farmed by the third generation, Dalton Christensen. (photos courtesy of Doris Andersen Christensen) [photo 6: DAC-Andersen Lidstrup Falster] [photo 6a: DAC-Ed Andersen farm1 Audubon] |
| 7. Nielsine Johansen left the comfortable home seen here in the village of Tarp (Ribe County) in southern Jutland in 1901. Less than a year after her arrival, she married Jens Clausen Brinkman in Cedar Falls and moved to Emmet County in northwestern Iowa, where they joined the Danish immigrant community around Ringsted. After five years here they were among the families who heeded the call of Rev. Henrik Plambeck to establish a Danish colony on the virgin territory of the far northern plains. In early 1908 Jens and the family dog moved to the Volmer, Montana, area, where he filed a 160-acre claim. Nielsine and the couple’s three children followed shortly after. The building in the lower picture is their home, built by O.P. Olsen, a fellow migrant from Iowa. The story of Nielsine’s and Jens’ lives has been vividly chronicled in a family history recently donated to the FHGC: Drømmen om Amerika/The Dream of America. The Danish community of Dagmar celebrates its centennial this July. (photos from Drømmen om Amerika/The Dream of America) [photo 7: AOAT-Nielsine Johansen Tarp Ribe Co.] [photo 7a: AOAT-Brinkman Volmer MT] |
| 8. Hans Christian Hansen was born in Ebeltoft, on the Mols peninsula (Randers County). His half-timbered tile-roofed home at 35 Overgade is still standing. Note the cobbled streets which are a feature of this picturesque town. Hans Christian settled in Tyler, Minnesota, after leaving Denmark. He built several residences. Pictured here is his third house in Tyler, taken about 1940. Note the Danish-style manner of letting a draft in. (photos courtesy of Rikke Utoft Hansen Olsen and Ellen Utoft Bollesen Juhl) [photo 8: RUHO-HC Hansen Ebeltoft1] [photo 8a: EBJ-HC Hansen.Tyler MN] |
| 9. Karen Marie Rasmussen was born on the island of Zealand in 1863 and immigrated in 1884. Before she left, this family portrait was taken in front of her home. Karen married Niels Christensen, who had immigrated two years earlier, in Harlan later in that same year. They farmed in Hamlin Township, where another family portrait was taken around 1909. Karen and Niels are sitting in the front row. (photos courtesy of Charlotte Sorensen) [photo 9: CS-Karen Rasmussen, Sjælland DK] [photo 9a: CS-Karen Rasmussen, Hamlin twp.] |
| 10. The thatched brick-work home with cobbled courtyard shows the childhood home where Niels Jensen Overgaard was born in Dyngby, near Odder (Aarhus County) in 1905. Niels is the small boy standing in front of the horses. His future wife, Nadjeschda Maria Lynge, was born in Siberia, where her father was establishing Danish-style creameries. However, she spent most of her childhood at “Pederslund,” the Lynge family home near Skanderborg in east-central Jutland. Niels Overgaard immigrated at the age of 16; Nadjeschda came with her parents, Carl and Anna, as a young girl. Niels and Nadjeschda met, married and lived their lives in a red-brick house on the northern outskirts of Kimballton, where a daughter lives today. (photos courtesy of Annette Andersen) [photo 10: Aa-Niels Overgaard DK home] |
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