73.81.1

Print, Photographic

1902

Berton Hansen. 2" x 2 3/4" black and white oval photograph of a boy identified on the back as Berton Howard Hansen. Oval photo on gray mat. Berton Howard Hansen posed beside a Windsor style wooden kitchen chair with a butter tub on the chair. Berton is holding a glass tube that was used to test butter. Berton is 2 years, 10 months and 7 days in photograph.

Notes on donor card: Subject is donor's husband. His father, Hans Hansen, was buttermaker at the Palmer Creamery north of Waseca when photo was taken. Notation on back: Born Aug. 26, 1899. The tub in the photo is a butter tub that was used to pack butter into, the glass tube is a butter tester.