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Collection Summary
Collection: 00441 - Mark J. Halvorson Photograph Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00130
Title: Elizabeth Schwan and Nicholas Bischoff Christmas cards and religious corner Rugby, Pierce County (N.D.)
Date: 2/16/1953
Creator: Halvorson, Theresa Bischoff
Inscription/Marks: [Handwritten in blue ink on back of photograph] Feb. 16 -1953 all. 1952 Christmas Charts [sic] N.B.
Summary: Christmas cards received in 1952 by Elizabeth Schwan and Nicholas Bischoff strung and hung in corner with religious display. The Gottes Eck (God’s Corner) is in the south-east corner the front room / living room of their home at 318 4th Street, Rugby, North Dakota. It consists of a crucifix flanked by St. John and Mary, the Mother of God at the foot of the cross. The two small statues are of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the left and Our Lady of the Rosary on the right To the sides are prints ( the Immaculate Heart of Mary) hanging on the east wall and print of (Sacred Heart of Jesus) on the south wall. Below the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a table with doily and flowers in a vase. Elizabeth Schwan and Nicholas Bischoff were devout Catholic, Black Sea Germans from Russia. Photograph by Theresa Bischoff Halvorson, their youngest daughter, taken in Bischoff home at 318 4th Street, Rugby, North Dakota. [Information from Mark J. Halvorson] Ethnic group - specifically Catholic, Black Sea Germans from Russia (Schwartz Meer Deutsche) from the Kutschurgan villages, not German-Americans. They were emigrants from Russia, Grandpa was a naturalized citizen and spoke English in addition to German and Russian. Grandma only spoke German.
Red ID: PH_I_169490 Image ID: 177605 Image Notes: 00441-00130

Collection: 00441 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Mark J. Halvorson Photograph Collection
Date: 1898-2018

Summary: Consists of Halvorson, Bischoff, and Schwann family photographs. Image subjects include portraits of family members, gardens, farming activities, winter, ice fishing, Norwegians, and Germans from Russia. There are several images of Mark J. Halvorson's work at the State Historical Society of North Dakota.

Collection Summary
Collection: 00441 - Mark J. Halvorson Photograph Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00130
Title: Elizabeth Schwan and Nicholas Bischoff Christmas cards and religious corner Rugby, Pierce County (N.D.)
Date: 2/16/1953
Creator: Halvorson, Theresa Bischoff
Inscription/Marks: [Handwritten in blue ink on back of photograph] Feb. 16 -1953 all. 1952 Christmas Charts [sic] N.B.
Summary: Christmas cards received in 1952 by Elizabeth Schwan and Nicholas Bischoff strung and hung in corner with religious display. The Gottes Eck (God’s Corner) is in the south-east corner the front room / living room of their home at 318 4th Street, Rugby, North Dakota. It consists of a crucifix flanked by St. John and Mary, the Mother of God at the foot of the cross. The two small statues are of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the left and Our Lady of the Rosary on the right To the sides are prints ( the Immaculate Heart of Mary) hanging on the east wall and print of (Sacred Heart of Jesus) on the south wall. Below the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a table with doily and flowers in a vase. Elizabeth Schwan and Nicholas Bischoff were devout Catholic, Black Sea Germans from Russia. Photograph by Theresa Bischoff Halvorson, their youngest daughter, taken in Bischoff home at 318 4th Street, Rugby, North Dakota. [Information from Mark J. Halvorson] Ethnic group - specifically Catholic, Black Sea Germans from Russia (Schwartz Meer Deutsche) from the Kutschurgan villages, not German-Americans. They were emigrants from Russia, Grandpa was a naturalized citizen and spoke English in addition to German and Russian. Grandma only spoke German.
Red ID: PH_I_169490 Image ID: 177606 Image Notes: 00441-00130-back

Collection: 00441 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Mark J. Halvorson Photograph Collection
Date: 1898-2018

Summary: Consists of Halvorson, Bischoff, and Schwann family photographs. Image subjects include portraits of family members, gardens, farming activities, winter, ice fishing, Norwegians, and Germans from Russia. There are several images of Mark J. Halvorson's work at the State Historical Society of North Dakota.

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