LU43.2

Print, Photographic

1915 Approximate

Young Crowd at New Richland Hotel. Black and white photograph of 13 persons posing on the corner of the porch outside a hotel in New Richland, Minn.; all unidentified, there are 2 women and 11 men wearing dark overcoats and hats; tenants, and friends of the donor's grandfather.

LU category are images scanned into the WCHS photo collection only. The donor retains actual possession and ownership of the original photograph. Donor's grandfather, Anders Peder Andersen, lived in the New Richland area from 1912 to 1919, returning to Denmark December 1919. The hotel is the same as in Accession #LU43.1. (Anders Peder Andersen was born April 25, 1884 in Noerreby, Klinte parish on the island Funen in Denmark son of Rasmus Andersen Skjellund and Kirsten Emilie Pedersen. Anders came to the America at age 28 to learn farming methods and spent 7 years between 1912 and 1919 in Waseca County, some time in Minneapolis, Albert Lea, St. Ansgar, IA and Milwaukee, WI. He joined the Danish-American Brotherhood while in the United States.