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Photograph album of Denmark, Sweden, and Colorado
Title
[Photograph album of Denmark, Sweden, and Colorado].
Production
Denmark ; Sweden ; Colorado, 1910-1914.
Physical Description
336 photographs in 1 album : gelatin silver prints ; photographs 20 x 26 cm and smaller
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Place of creation and date from captions.
Captions in English and Danish.
Provenance
Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2011.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
Ejnar Posselt (1883-1971) emigrated from Denmark to the United States in 1902 and worked as an engineer. Posselt married Winifred "Peggy" Hughes (1892- ). He later married Ottilie Nockin (1887- ) and Ellen Nielsen (1895- ). Posselt died in Connecticut.
Summary
Photograph album of Ejnar Posselt and Peggy Posselt documenting their travels to Denmark and Sweden in 1910 and through Colorado from 1910 to 1914. Photographs in Colorado show the Posselts travelling by automobile in present-day Rocky Mountain National Park and at cement plants (including the Colorado Portland Cement Company) near Denver. Also present are photographs of Posselt at a powerplant he had engineered with "Weber" for the Creede Tribune mines.
Format
Images
Language
English; Danish
Added to Catalog
September 06, 2019
References
Ejnar Posselt, Photograph Album of Denmark, Sweden, and Colorado. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
Ejnar Posselt, Photograph Album of Denmark, Sweden, and Colorado. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Gelatins ilver prints.
Photograph albums.
Photographic prints.
Photographs.
Occupation
Engineers Colorado 20th century.
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