1.96.211
Print, Photographic
1912 Approximate
Janesville Trinity Church Picnic. 9 3/8" x 7 3/8" black and white photograph of a large church group posed outside sitting or standing in the grass with woods behind; Trinity Lutheran Church (Janesville) Picnic in the Morris Hodgkins Grove (Herman Dimmel Farm); identified: (front row) Irene Hoffman, ?, Wilfred (Bill) Fratzke, ?, ?, Herman Boetcher, Walter Dimmel, Carl Schole, Alfred Hoffman, ?, Ted Winter; (second row) Alma Schlie, Frieda Rosenthal, Minnie Maas, Myrtle Dimmel, Clara Fitzloff, Tilly Werdin, Ella Fratzke, ?, Dora Fratzke, Helen Fratzke, Ann Winter, ?, ?, ?, Oscar Hoffman, Fred Schnept, Albert Mittelstaedt, M.E. Winter; (third row) Agnus Boetcher (Carl Tetzloff), ?, Annie Lang, ?, ?, Louise Schrept or Schnepf, Martin Mittelstaedt, Vern Schmidt-Martin Hoffman, Herman Maas, Walter Peter, Otto Schuneman, ?, Walter Mittelstaedt, Otto Lang, Emil Rosenthal, Henry (HJ) Hoffman (teacher). 3 men in black: Herman Boetcher, ?, ?; (fourth row) Mrs. Gust Dimmel, Mrs. Herman Dimmel, Mrs. Herman Boetcher, Mrs. Wm Fratzke, Mrs. Herman Mueller, Mrs. (Rev) Martin Winter & Margrette, Mrs. H.J. Hoffman, Carl Tetzloff, Otto Felske, Henry Werdin, Lydia Winter (Sperling), Eric Ewert, Emil Felske, Rudolph Knopf, E. Werdin, ?, Herman Felske, Carl Peter, Carl Marx; (back row) Mrs. Henry Werdin (Ernest's mother), Mrs. Emil Miller, Mrs. Herman Lang, Mrs. Louis Hollmichel, Mrs. Frank Schnepf, ?, Lida Mueller, Helena Kopishke, Laura Werdin, Wanda Mittelstaedt, Emma Boettcher, Schmidt-Lillian, Alwina, Mueller, ?, Frida Peter, Olga Kopischke, Alvina Boettcher, ?, Mary Schmidt, Ida Marx, (Mrs. William Abraham) Albertina Knopf, Alvina Sievert, Mary Felsia, Meta Felske, Beta Lang, Elsa Peter, ?, Mata Marx, Herman Mueller, ?, Rev. M. Winter, Anna Mittelstaedt, Herman Dimmel, Ernest Proechel; photographed by A. S. Hellebo, Janesville, Minn.; photo was given to Dick Sandberg by Mrs. Bill Blank in 1978.
Janesville Church: Trinity Lutheran Church. Janesville business: Hellebo Photography.