by Karen Nyenhuis | Dec 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
Gustaf Cederström, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, “Karl XII and Ivan Mazepa after the Poltava Battle.” The painting depicts Swedish King Karl XII, his name often Anglicized as Charles XII, during the Battle of Poltava. Karl had been injured in the...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Aug 8, 2024 | A Miniature 1910 Painted Lady, Uncategorized
An unusually cold spring and summer in 1867, followed by drought in 1868, caused a famine in Sweden during the years 1867-1869, and a subsequent wave of immigration to America. Most Swedes ended up in the Midwest, but a few followed the Gold Rush to San Francisco....
by Karen Nyenhuis | Jul 17, 2024 | A Miniature 1910 Painted Lady, Uncategorized
Chinese Immigrants in Gilded Age San Francisco. Text coming...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Jul 1, 2024 | A Miniature 1910 Painted Lady, Uncategorized
The first floor apartment houses a family of Irish immigrants to San Francisco in 1900. I’m going to guess that the fabulous doll with the orange feather in her bonnet is by Beverly Dahl, but she is not...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Jun 28, 2024 | A Miniature 1910 Painted Lady, Uncategorized
Grandpa is possibly following the advice of Thomas Jefferson on how to prevent colds–soaking one’s feet in cold water....
by Karen Nyenhuis | Jun 28, 2024 | A Miniature 1910 Painted Lady, Uncategorized
The first floor apartment has a bedroom and a kitchen at the back. The metal bucket in the kitchen has coal for the iron stove and a cast iron food warmer. I assume my mother made the furniture in the bedroom. She signed the end table, and the other furniture lacks...
