Carl and Alma Nelson with family, 1911-12
1911-1912
Oval portrait of the Nelson family in 1911 or 1912. The front caption identifies the year as 1911, and the family members as Carl and Alma Nelson with their children Lillian, Leonard, Sven, Clifford, and Olaf. The location of each person is not specified. A note on the back dates the photo to 1912, and adds that there were three children born later to the family: Alice, Robert, and Chester.
More about this item
- Description
- Oval portrait of the Nelson family in 1911 or 1912. The front caption identifies the year as 1911, and the family members as Carl and Alma Nelson with their children Lillian, Leonard, Sven, Clifford, and Olaf. The location of each person is not specified. A note on the back dates the photo to 1912, and adds that there were three children born later to the family: Alice, Robert, and Chester.
- Provenance
- Found in collections, clearly a copy of a photograph. Carl and Alma Nelson were Swedish immigrants who met on a boat to America in 1902. They settled in Gresham in 1906, raising 8 children (a ninth died prior to the move to Gresham).
- Date
- 1911-1912
- Subject
- Families
- Photographs
- Children
- Children & adults
- Immigrants
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Identifier
- ghs1788
- Contributor
- Gresham Historical Society
- Extent
- Print, Photographic
- Type
- StillImage
- Item sets
- Gresham Heritage
