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| Title | Anna Hensel with her daughter Marie Hensel Treichel |
| Date of Original | 190-? |
| Description | Anna Hensel seated with her daughter standing beside her. |
| Ordering Information | Consult: http://library.ndsu.edu/ndsuarchives/duplication-services |
| General Subject | People
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| Subject (LCTGM) | Older people
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| Subject (LCSH) | Russian Germans
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| Subject (Local) | Women homesteaders
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| Personal Name | Hensel, Anna, 1834-
Treichel, Marie Hensel, d. 1967
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| Location | Bentley (N.D.)
Hettinger County (N.D.)
North Dakota
United States
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| Decade | 1900-1909
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| Item Number | 2008.116.93; 2008.35.2 |
| Negative Number | 35mm 305.29-30 |
| Format of Original | Slides
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| Dimensions of Original | 5 x 5 cm. |
| Transcription | "Anna Hensel (seated) 1893" - Handwritten on slide mount.
"Anna Hensel came from Bessarabia, South Russia, when she was 67. She stayed on her homestead 11 years. Courtesy Loraine Stindt." - Caption cropped image showing just Anna Hensel.
"Anna Hensel (seated), 1893, standing - her youngest daughter, Marie she inherited Anna's homestead and lived there until about 1960" - Caption with copy print (2008.35.2) |
| Notes | Title supplied by staff.
Photographer unknown.
Copied from original gelatin silver print.
Completed questionnaire and additional biographical information in Lindgren's research papers (Mss 292.1.95). Copy print also available in collection. |
| Biography/History | Anna Hensel was born in 1834 at Leipzig, Bessarabia, Russia. She came to the United States in 1901.She homesteaded in Hettinger County in 1903 near her daughter and son-in-law who had come earlier. She proved up her claim in 1910. In 1914 she moved to Washington to be near her daughter where she died at age 93. Marie Hensel married Michael Treichel and they lived near Elgin until Marie, a widow, moved to her mother's farm south of Bentley, N.D. |
| Repository Institution | North Dakota State University Libraries, Institute for Regional Studies
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| Repository Collection | H. Elaine Lindgren Photograph Collection 2008
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| Collection Finding Aid | Consult: http://hdl.handle.net/10365/1059 |
| Credit Line | Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU, Fargo (2008.116.93) |
| Language | eng
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| Digital ID | rs010098 |
| Original Source | Slide |
