Nordic Blue: Itasca State Park

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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Distractions Down on the Farm

Visiting with Native American Girls at Itasca
State Park, Minnesota, 1935. Back row (l to r):
Mabel Johnson, Ella Moen, and Doris Johnson.

This Victorian-era cabinet card photograph album had a lovely crimson velvet cover under the brass trim and clasp before it faded due to exposure and time. The album was owned by my great grandparents, Ole Martin and Malla Johnson, of Leonard Minnesota, both of whom died in 1948. Like many folks who knew their family and friends well, they did not take the time to mark who was in the images. As a result, there are many faces among the following family names to be indentifed: Basgaard, Johnson, Larson, Pederson/Peterson (Stallen, or Stalin), Strand, and more.