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| Anna Lovisa Larsdotter Hann (1863-1925 |
Today's Treasure Chest Thursday
post is about this carte-de-viste
photograph of my great-grandmother Anna Lovisa Larsdotter Hann. Thanks
to the photographer's imprint on the mount, I know she had it taken in
the town of Kopparberg (Copper
Mountain) in Örebro Län, Sweden, probably just before she left for
America on 18 Oct 1888 via Göteborg for Ishpeming, Michigan. It's about 35 kilometers
between Kopparberg and Anna's hometown of Lindesberg. I wonder how long
it took her to get to the photographer?
I've talked
before about Anna and how much I admire her for raising my
grandmother, and another daughter and son alone after she was widowed at
the age of 33. I don't have many photographs of her, but this is by far
my favorite. How brave she was!
And it's nice to stop and revisit
this photograph because I'm filled with gloom at the bricks remaining in
the wall between me and Anna's husband, Gottfried
Hann. I hired a German-language researcher to read the Illinois
Staats-Zeitung for obituaries for
Gottfried and she found several, along with his elusive birthdate and
place. YAY! So then I got overconfident and thought it would be cake to
stroll through the LDS microfilm for his tiny Austrian town and find his
baptismal record. But he's not there and neither is his brother. Gloom,
gloom, gloom.
But Anna never gave up and neither
will I. Not until I find her husband, who's out there in some
historical record somewhere.
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