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Brodsgaard raising flag

Photograph of a man, identified as Chris Brodsgaard, raising an American flag at Danevang Lutheran Church cemetary. Three tombstones can be seen in the rightmost part of the photograph, as well as a few others beyond the paved sidewalk where Chris stands. The flag is at full-mast and blowing in the wind. Trees and a electrical poles are visible in the distance. A stamp on the back of the photograph indicates, "Danish Heritage Society P. O. BOX 386 Danevang, TX 77432".
Date: 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brodsgaard raising flag

Photograph of a man, identified as Chris Brodsgaard, raising an American flag at a cemetery belonging to the Danevang Lutheran Church. He stands somewhat in the middle ground of the photograph. The flag is about three quarters of the whole way there. On the right of the photograph, three tombstones can be seen. A paved walkway bisects the scene. A few other tombstones can be observed after the walkway, as well as a few trees and a series of electrical poles that extend into the far distance. Hand-written text in black ink on the back of the photograph cannot be read with certainty, but it states that this is the location of a particular church. A diagonal text that succeeds it reads, "archives".
Date: 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Altar Candleholders]

Black and white photograph of the altar in the Danevang Lutheran Church. The alter contains a pair of brass candle holders and a candelabrum on the mantel. On either side of the altar table are two smaller tables with shallow metal dishes on them. A figurine in the shape of a lamb sits at the base of the altar.
Date: 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Aerial View of Danevang Lutheran Church]

Black and white photograph of an aerial view of the Danevang Lutheran Church and the surrounding land, which includes a cemetery. A group of people are gathered outside of the front of the church. A system of dirt roads is visible going around the perimeter of the land. The plot of land just adjacent to the church's land is the cemetery; it has numerous tombstones planted on its surface.
Date: May 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mads Andersen Home

Photograph of a homestead in Danevang, Texas, belonging to Mads Andersen. Across a narrow body of water in the foreground, various plants and bushes surround the main property off to the left in the back. It is a two-story structure with intersecting gable roofs and a balcony on the second floor bordered by post railings. This same balcony creates an overhang for a first floor entrance. A thick blanket of snow covers the property.
Date: August 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Harold Hansen Home

Photograph of Harold and Ella Hansen's family home in Danevang, Texas. The house appears to be a single-story structure with horizontal white siding, a front entrance overhang with two supporting metal columns, and a shingled gable roof with three windowed projections. There are two large bushes on each side of the entrance. To the right of the image, there is a parked car underneath a garage structure.
Date: 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Olaf Olsen Home

Photograph of a two-story brick house in Danevang, Texas, belonging to Olaf Olsen. The photograph was taken from a trimmed front lawn, capturing two large trees that tower over the house and cover it in shadows. The house has gray shingles and intersecting gable roofs. The front door is covered by an overhang with a domed opening made from the brick. A wooden fence can be seen in the back on the right part of the house.
Date: 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Three Photographs of Pastor Deana Voges]

Three photographs of Pastor Deana Voges in various settings. In the top left image, she is standing behind a wide wooden pulpit, supporting herself with a crutch. She wears white robes and glasses and is looking slightly to the left. Behind her, there are chairs, desks, and various candle-holders. A second pulpit and microphone can be seen on the far left. A sticker on the photograph with printed text indicates that her father made the pulpit, and that she coined the phrase "have pulpit will travel." In the top right image, Pastor Voges is sitting down on an electric chair, looking down at the piano on the left, which is being played by an elderly woman. A third woman, identified as the Pastor's sister, is standing on the far right. She wears a pink dress and dark shoes. In the bottom photograph, Pastor Voges is outside of her clerical clothing and is dressed in a purple muumuu. She holds open the door of an automobile, and stands in front of the entryway to the driver's side seat. Behind her, tall, slender trees can be seen. The photographs have been taped on a white piece of paper, the back of which …
Date: [1986..1989]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Otto & Henrietta Bram House

Photograph of a single-story brick house behind an average-size tree. There are small, pink flowers surrounding the perimeter of the house. Accompanying information states home belongs to Otto and Henrietta Bram. The top of two trees are visible behind the house.
Date: 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Church Parsonage

Photograph of a single-story building identified as a church parsonage. Taken a few yards from the entrance, the foreground shows well-trimmed short grasses and a few trees bordering the perimeter of the structure. Window and doors have been finished with a green trim. The garage door on the right side has been painted green as well. Underneath a shaded area in the rightmost side of the picture is a parked automobile.
Date: 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Jack & Agnes Hansen Home

Photograph of a single-story, brick house belonging to Jack and Agnes Hansen. Photograph was taken from a distance, capturing a slender dirt road and a front lawn on which several large trees have been planted. The house has a white door and a series of double-hung windows on either side of the door. To the left, in the distance, there appears to be a small outbuilding.
Date: 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Grace Andersen Home

Photograph of a single-story home belonging to Grace Andersen. Photograph was taken a few feet away from the front of the house, capturing a direct frontal view of a door and double-hung windows on either side. Both door and windows have been finished with a blue trim that also continues along the edge of the roof. A white picket fence is seen off to the right behind the house. In the front lawn, a few trees have been planted. Outdoor decor objects including pink flamingos, a stone fountain, and wind chimes are visible as well.
Date: 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Lawrence & Gloria Petersen Home

Photograph of a single-story, yellow brick home belonging to Lawrence and Gloria Petersen in Danevang, Texas. Photograph seems to have been taken from the road, capturing a wide paved walkway perpendicular to the house leading up to a flat wall with a window. A few large trees lie on the left side of the walkway. On the right, there is a small, slender tree. Most of the windows and exterior designs have been covered by the trees, but the front door, a few windows, and some of the small plants along the edge of the house are visible.
Date: 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Henry Knudsen Later David Hutchinson Home

Photograph of a single-story, brick home belonging to David Hutchinson. Built by Henry Knudsen, accompanying information states Knudsen was also the original owner. A design has been made on the front facade of the house by gaps left in the brick layout, creating a series of four rows of small rectangles. To the right, the front door is visible underneath an overhang, as well as three windows and a potted plant set atop a white railing. Two large trees on the right and left side tower over the house. Photograph was taken from a distance, capturing the front lawn.
Date: 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Nel Strarup Home

Photograph of two young men identified as Martin (left) and Anton Strarup (right) on the front steps of a two-story home belonging to Nels Strarup. The men are dressed identical to each other in dark-colored trousers and a shirt and tie combination. A brick base and column support an overhang that covers the front porch of the house. Above it, on the second floor, a gable roof and three double-hung windows are visible. A few potted plants have been set on the front steps. There is a stamp on the back of the photograph of a leaping fox with the accompanying text, "Fox Tone Print Fox Co. San Antonio, Texas".
Date: 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Jens P. Petersen Home

Photograph of a single-story home in Danevang, Texas. Discolored yellow and white wood siding covers the exterior, and brown shingles cover an intersecting gableed roof. A chimney is on top of the roof near one of the hips. Several objects have been strewn about the front lawn, including a gas tank and a small metal basin. In the back, off to the left, there is a red pick-up truck and an outbuilding. Several leafless trees are behind the home.
Date: 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Peter Jensen House

Photograph of a homestead in Danevang, Texas. Accompanying information states main home originally belonged to Peter Jensen. Ownership later transferred to Dennis Schulz and finally sold in 1985 to "Garcia." A few trees are on the left side of the photo. Behind them, the two-story home has been built with white siding, a shingled single sloping roof, and rectangular windows. To the right, there are a couple of outbuildings and a couple of small trees.
Date: 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Leonard Lauritsen Home

Photograph of a single-story home belonging to Leonard Lauritsen in Danevang, Texas. There are yellow flowers lining the edge of the house as well as other small bushes. White siding and dark-color shingles have been used for construction materials, and underneath a gable roof, there are two double-hung windows. Tall trees tower all around the house. Pink flowers grow from one behind the house.
Date: 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Gunnar Thyssen Home

Photograph of a single-story brick home in Danevang, Texas, belonging to Gunnar Thyssen. Thickly gathered pines obscure the left side of the photograph. A slender tree is to the right, which towers over the house. A chimney, some air vents, and a thin wire antenna are seen on the roof of the house.
Date: 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Dane's Country Store

Photograph of Dane's Country Store in Danevang, Texas. The store has a main door, two windows (one of which has a air conditioning system), and an old-western style sign on the second story which bears the store's name. The roof is supported by a wooden column. A red gas pump on the leftmost side of the picture has been partially cropped out. On the right, there is a parked car facing a single-story structure. A sticker placed on the front of the photograph states that the store was operated by Rick and Malynda Schulze, beginning in 1984.
Date: 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Tom & Moly Madsen Kraysereck Home

Photograph of a two-story red brick home in Danevang, Texas, belonging to Tom and Molly Madsen Kraysereck. There is a sloping overhang supported by two wooden columns covering a front porch, some windows, and the front door. The house has a green-tinted shingled gable roof and all windows have wooden shutters on each side. The front lawn does not appear to have any grass or plants, except for a cropped set of leaves on the top right corner of the picture which partially covers a second-story window.
Date: 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

H. D. and Nina Madsen Home

Photograph of a single-story red brick home in Danevang, Texas, belonging to H. D. and Nina Madsen. There are large trees towering around the house, with one central tree in the front lawn. The house has a wide sloping overhang supported by several slender columns, double-hung windows, and a front and screen door. The grass has been cut short and a few bushes lie on the outskirts of the home.
Date: 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Verner and Louise Petersen Home

Photograph of a home in Danevang, Texas, owned by Verner and Louise Petersen. The house has gray shingles, white siding, and red brick along the bottom part of the exterior walls. Behind a flowering tree, a double-hung window is visible. There are different types of bushes lining the edge of the house, and a tall pine tree on the rightmost side of the picture. In the background there are more trees towering over the house.
Date: 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Tony & Joyce Hansen Danna Home

Photograph of a single-story brick home in Danevang, Texas, belonging to Tony and Joyce Hansen. The house has several two mulled double-hung windows flanked by shutters, a hip roof covered by dark-colored shingles, and an overhang supported by a brick column. A small series of bushes line the edge of the house, which round the corner on the left to the back where it stops at a wooden fence. A road sign is visible on the rightmost part of the picture, as well as a parked car facing the house.
Date: 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History