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Jack & Agnes Hansen Home

Description: 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

Jeanne Swendsen Nielsen

Description: Bust portrait photograph of a woman, identified as Jeanne Swendsen Nielsen, in front a light-blue backdrop. She has short blond hair and is wearing a light-blue knit sweater as well as gold earrings and a gold necklace. Accompanying information states that, "Jeanne Swendsen Nielsen, daughter of Julius and Stephanie Swendsen and wife of David V. Nielsen, is Danevang born. She was organist in Danevang Lutheran Church during the tenure of Mrs. Verner Etersen (1955-1957) when she graduated from El … more
Date: 1985

Jens P. Petersen Home

Description: 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

Jim & Jennifer Harton Home

Description: Photograph of the front view of a single-story brick home in Danevang, Texas, belonging to Jim and Jennifer Harton. The house has an intersecting gable and hip roof. The gable extends over the front entrance creating an overhang supported by four equally separated white columns. The front door is flanked on each side by two double-hung windows. Additionally, there is a small fifth window on the left side of the house. Photograph was taken from a distance, capturing an empty front lawn and a cou… more
Date: 1986

Jim & Jennifer Harton Home

Description: Photograph of a single-story brick home in Danevang, Texas, belonging to Jim and Jennifer Harton. The house has an intersecting gable and hip roof. The gable extends over the front entrance creating an overhang supported by four equally separated white columns. A large bush is planted directly in front of the two left columns, at the corner of a paved walkway leading to the front door. Two double-hung windows flank the right and left sides of the door. A utility pole is visible in the backgroun… more
Date: 1986

Julius & Stephanie Swendsen Home

Description: Photograph of a single-story structure in Danevang, Texas, belonging to Julius and Stephanie Swendsen. There are trees on all sides of the house and small bushes planted around the edge of the walls. The house itself has intersecting gable roofs with dark shingles, white horizontal siding, and several double-hung windows on the first floor.
Date: 1986

Lars Wind Home

Description: Photograph of a single-story structure in Danevang, Texas, belonging to Lars Wind. The photograph was taken from the front, capturing the front facade of a house with intersecting gable roofs with brown shingles, white siding, and several double-hung windows on the first floor. There is an air conditioning unit hanging out of the fifth window from the left. Two large trees are in the front lawn, and the trunk of a third one - which has been cut down - can be seen near the three rightmost window… more
Date: July 1985

Lawrence & Gloria Petersen Home

Description: 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 a… more
Date: 1986

Leo Allenson/Keith Bram Home

Description: Photograph of a single-story red brick home in Danevang, Texas. Accompanying information states property belonged to Leo Allenson before it was sold to Keith Bram. The house has a hip roof and several small windows running the length of the house. In the leftmost side of the photograph, a parked car is visible next to a second structure.
Date: 1986

Leo & Doris Allenson Home

Description: Photograph of single-story home in Danevang, Texas, belonging to Leo and Doris Allenson. Photograph was taken from a distance, and the foreground is of a tilled land that is separated from the very well-kept front lawn of the Allenson's home. Plants and bushes of various sizes line the edge of the house. The house itself is made of light-colored brick and its roof is composed of gray shingles. A neighboring home is off to the right. Hand-written text on the back of the photograph states home wa… more
Date: 1980/1990

Leonard Lauritsen Home

Description: 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

Leroy & Ann Strarup Home

Description: Photograph of a single-story, brick home belonging to Leroy and Ann Strarup, located in Danevang, Texas. The grass around the house has been cut short. The trees around the house have been bordered off by a small mound of dirt, and some of them have small bushes flanking their sides. Yellow flowers are around the edge of the house, as well as other bushes and small grasses.
Date: 1980/1990

A. Longwood Home

Description: Photograph of the A. Longwood farmstead property in Danevang, Texas. A dirt path in the foreground leads up to the main structure, a two-story house with white siding, intersecting gable roofs with light gray shingles, and double-hung windows on the first and second floors. A parked car is to the left underneath a tree. To the right, there is a red mechanical plow, and behind it, what appears to be an outbuilding. A white sticker placed on the front of the photograph indicates that it is "now F… more
Date: August 1985

Lutheran Church Women Organization

Description: Photograph of a group of elderly women belonging to the Lutheran Church Women Organization inside Danevang Community Hall. They are all wearing glasses and wear conservative attire. The back row stands and the front row is seated. Names have been provided, but it seems that one name was left out from each row, so their identities cannot be stated with certainty. A hand-written notation on the back of the photograph gives the years 1986-1989 as the tenure of Pastor Voges, who is seated somewhere… more
Date: 1980/2000

Mads Andersen Home

Description: 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

[Mary Andersen and Daughters at Birthday Celebration]

Description: Photograph of a woman in a wheelchair, identified as Mary Andersen, at her 100th birthday celebration with her four daughters standing behind her. Mary Andersen is holding a heart-shaped box that reads, "Mary H. Andersen 100 centennial". She is wearing a pink floral dress and a pearl necklace. From left to right, her daughters have been identified as Rena Howard, June Andersen Gann, Ruth Brodsgaard, and Christine Ingvardeen Michaelsen. Behind them, there is an unidentified man. A series of lon… more
Date: July 1985

Mary Bell and Carl Larsen

Description: Color photograph of a woman and a man, posing indoors together. The woman is Mary Bell, a retired teacher who taught wood carving to the man on her right, Carl Larsen. According to a typed note on the card that is attached to the photograph, Mary was in ill health and located Carl Larson to present him with a wood carving that he had made while in school. Mary is wearing a blue shirt and glasses; Carl is wearing a brown shirt and a jacket. Behind them, the light-colored wood paneling of the… more
Date: 1980

Meta & Ira Penninger Home

Description: Photograph of a single-story home in Danevang, Texas, belonging to Meta and Ira (Red) Penninger. The home has horizontal light-colored siding and a shingled, closed gable roof with missing shingles near the top. There are different bushes along the edge of the house. Several double-hung windows are on the front wall. There is a second single-story structure visible in the background on the rightmost side of the image.
Date: 1986

Michael Nielsen Home

Description: Photograph of a trailer park home in Danevang, Texas. There are two large trees to the right of it. A dirt road is past the trees and rounds the corner of the home in the back. There are at least three visible windows, and the trailer is painted a beige color. Accompanying information states home once belonged to Michael and Shelly Nielsen, but they now live on the Walter Nielsen homestead.
Date: 1980/1990

Neils Berndt Home

Description: Photograph of a two-story home in Danevang, Texas. It has blue siding, several windows, and is surrounded by large trees. There is a series of wooden and metal posts lined alongside a dirt walkway that lead up to two parked automobiles on the far right. They appear to be in front of an open, outdoor garage. Accompanying information states that the home originally belonged to Neils Berndt, before it was destroyed by a fire in 1990. Ownership of the home transferred to George and Robbie Stall, bu… more
Date: 1986

Nel Strarup Home

Description: 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 th… more
Date: 1986

Olaf Olsen Home

Description: 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
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