Lavik Images #1-#40
The posting of the 319 Lavik Photograph Images, begins with this page and the first forty images. The previous pages provide the context for these photos - by describing the background on this collection, the Lavik ancestry in Norway, the biography of Rev. Rasmus Lavik and his family, a listing of all the extended family members and the locations where they lived, and an index to the 319 images. The image at right is #5, of Peter Lavik and another young man, posted below with an explanation.
The Posting of Each Lavik Collection Item – 319 photographs Or Miscellaneous Items - Begins Here
This Page Includes Items #1 - #40
All 319 items in the Lavik photo batch will be posted to these pages. The first page was an introduction to the Lavik photograph collection, the background on these 319 items and the task of identifying them. The second page includes the Lavik ancestry in Norway. The third page is a listing of each extended Lavik family member and the locations where they lived. The fourth page is a biography of Rev. Rasmus Lavik with brief sections on each member of his immediate family. The fifth page is a comprehensive index, and indexes each of these items by item number. This sixth page begins the posting of each item - forty items to a page - along with what is known about each one. Here are the first forty items, numbered #1 - #40. The following pages will contain all the rest of the items - at forty items posted per page.
Item #1 - Agnes Lavik. “Agnes” is written on the back of this photo. No other information is evident. There are two Agnes’ in the family, Agnes Grimsrud, born in 1907, daughter of Dora Lavik Grimsrud, and a second Agnes, the oldest daughter of Ingvald and Clara Lavik, born in 1923.
This photo seems to match other photos of Agnes Lavik, daughter of Ingvald and Clara. She is shown in other photos as part of her family and one other individual one of her, both of those other ones taken in Colorado Springs, where Ingvald was a pastor ca 1930. These photos are numbered #70 and #75. This photo also has a more modern finishing that most photos in the batch, which matches a later time frame. There are a few photos of Ingvald’s family with this style.
Item #2 - above on the left - It is clear from other photos that this is Rasmus Lavik – this photo matches one of the two photos shown in the introductory page coming from the Norwegian American Historical Association. On the back of the photo above reads Anderson & Stytestad, Montevideo & Appleton, Minn. These locations are in the Swift and Chippewa County area in Minnesota, and do not appear to be near any posting of Rasmus. (The Minnesota early photographer directory lists an Ole Anderson, in Montevideo Minnesota in 1880-81, and also in the Minnesota Valley in various locations in the 1880’s, and 1890’s. There is no listing for a Stylestad.) The identical photo from the Norwegian American Historical Association lists Peck of Zumbrota, Minnesota as the studio. That suggests that it is the same photo, with two different studios listed. That is the same issue as the photo of Knut Lavik, Rasmus’ brother, described in the introduction.
Item #2a, showing the Anderson and Syfestad Studio of Appleton and Montevideo, Minnesota, is from the back of Item #2, and is shown above on the right. It appears that on the bottom of the front side of Photo #2 – an original studio and/or city is blacked out. Photograph #39 was taken in Montevideo also.
Item #3 photo side of post card of Anders Haugen - with a note side of the postcard shown below as the next item. This is a postcard from Rudy Lavik, postmarked January 23, 1912. It is clearly a skier jumping at a winter event. The clothing matches that of the person in the postcard in item #271. Mike Collins was able to transcribe the faded writing at the bottom of the photo: “World Champion Anders Haugen jumping at St. Olaf. I tell you (unclear)”. Anders had the same name as a brother of Rasmus’ second wife Antonette, but appears to have not been related – his biography states he was from Telemark and immigrated in 1909, long after Antonette and her family. The person in #271 also appears to be Anders. I have scanned and enlarged the handwritten note in another scan, shown below. [NOTE: That this is Anders is corroborated by the fact that another copy of this photo is online at the Northfield History Collaborative collection, titled “Anders Haugen Jumping” with the description listed as “Initial jump, 1913 St. Olaf ski jump tournament, with spectators”. It states that the date of creation is January 15, 1913. It was donated by a member of the St. Olaf Class of 1914, Edolph A. Larsen. Wikipedia says that Anders is the only American (through 2016) to have medaled in ski jumping in the Winter Olympics.]
Item #4 - This is the message side of the post card - Rudy Lavik to his older brother Ingvald Lavik - dated January 24, 1912 - all about classes at school. On this date, Ingvald was a few days before his twenty-first birthday, and Rudy was a few months before his twentieth birthday.
Item #5. This appears to be Peter Lavik and a young man, possibly one of his younger brothers. This photo is shown in the header of this page. Taken in Moorhead Minnesota – I have concluded that the young man on the right looks like a younger Peter Lavik that appeared in other photos, although the older Lavik brothers looked similar - Andrew, born in 1874, Peter in 1877, and John in 1881. The oldest of the brothers by Rasmus’ second wife Antonette is Ingvald, born in 1891, and probably too young to be the younger person in this photo. Of the Lavik brothers, Andrew was in Moorhead ca 1896-97.
Having said all this, it could be Peter and John, given the ages, with the small possibility that the man on the right is Andrew. The man on the right is old enough to have a mustache. The photo studio was O. E. Flaten in Moorhead, Minnesota. There is a listing in the Minnesota early photographer directory for Ole E. Flaten, of Vanders Norway, who was in Moorhead, Minnesota in various locations from 1884 to 1928. This is the first of many photos in this batch taken by O. E Flaten of Moorhead.
Item #6 The Parsonage in Daleyville, the Perry Congregation, with Ingvald Lavik, his wife Clara and sons Harold and Melvin in the photo. Shown below is the handwriting on the back of this photo, shown below as Item #6a, “Perry Prestegaard – Clara, Harold, og Melvin”.. Clara was the wife of Ingvald Lavik, and he had sons by the name of Harold and Melvin. Item #1 with Agnes Lavik, oldest child of Ingvald and Clara, looks like the same photgraph style and both these photos could have been taken about the same time. Prestegaard loosely translates to parsonage – the Norwegian dictionary defines it as rectory or vicarage. John Lavik was the first Lavik to preach at Perry (Wisconsin) in a posting from 1923 to 1926. Harold and Melvin were not born until 1927 and 1929. Ingvald was a pastor at the Perry Congregation in Daleyville, beginning in 1932 until 1950. The two sons with Clara look like they could be five years old by the time of this picture, matching the time frame of this picture. It is interesting that both brothers - John and Ingvald - were ministers at the same church. The picture may have had more importance, because the parsonage was already familiar to the family, and they may have even visited John Lavik there during his time as minister. I have also seen the address of Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin with this church – Mt. Horeb is nine miles from Daleyville.
Item #7 - The photo to the right is likely of Raymond and Duane Carlson, sons of Antonette Lavik's niece. This is a photo with no writing on the reverse, but has a date and studio stamped on the back, shown below, and labeled at Item #7a, The Slorby Studio, Devils Lake, North Dakota, stamped October 30, 1936. This is one of many photos from this period of the same style and developed in Devils Lake – and all seem to be from the families of two nieces of Antonette Lavik. The older boy seems to match the young man in photo #140. The older boy is likely Raymond Carlson, and it is quite possible that the younger boy is his brother Duane Carlson. They seem to match the two kids in Photo #56. Other photos with these two boys are #143-#146. The Slorby Studio is the same studio marking as in the later photos.
Item #8. Unidentified Woman, Wheaton, MN – This photo of an unidentified woman, taken by the A. Carlson Studio in Wheaton, Minnesota. The photograph is presented in a style similar to other photos are card stock of this time - a titled rectangular photo. Wheaton is in Traverse County, Minnesota – and is not that far from Richland County, North Dakota - one over from Milnor and Sargent County. Wheaton is the County seat and is appears to be its own township or jurisdiction. Axel Carlson was shown photographing in Wheaton, Minnesota from 1889-1895. There are many photographs below that were taken in this studio, but it is yet unclear what the relationship is between the people in the Wheaton photographs to each other or to the Lavik family. [Wheaton photos shown on this and later pages are Items #13, 27, 38, 51, 52, 238, and 247. Photos #52 and #238 seem like the same style and frame. Photos #8 and #52 look like they could be of the same young woman. The child in photo #38 looks like he could be one of the three boys shown in photo #13. The frame from the older couple in #247 looks like it matches the frame of the young man in photo #51. The man in photo #51 looks like he could be the older version of one of the boys in Photo #13. Having said all that, there is nothing more conclusive or known about the connection of the family or families in these photos, or who they are.]
Item #9 – Five Rasmus Lavik Children – This photo, which I have posted as the header photo for the website page describing this photo project, with five adult children of Rasmus Lavik and his first wife Ingeborg Tuff - Peter, John R., Dora, Marie and Hannah. Not here was Andrew, the oldest of the six children of Rasmus’ first marriage, who died in July 1900. Marie was the next child who died, in October 1902, someone who is in this photo, so this clearly was taken prior to October 1902. This leaves the question of whether the picture was taken in the window after Andrew died, or he was still alive, and away at school – which he was at points from 1892 until his death. The Studio, stamped in the corner reads J. H. Hunter, Forman, North Dakota. This photo is of the same place and style, and even dress, of the two Lavik sisters shown in photo #18 below. This photo also matches one of the identified ones from Paul Lavik – showing just four of the five children, but in the same dress from the same sitting, and with the same photographer listed. Foreman is the county seat of Sargent County in North Dakota, not that far from Milnor. J. H. Hunter had a studio in Forman from 1902 to 1907, according to the Dakota photographer directory - and that matches the time frame of this photo.
Item #10 – Postcard – Rudy Lavik and two unidentified younger men. This postcard, undated and with no writing, includes Rudy Lavik and two younger men. It could be from one of his early coaching jobs, and these could be two students that he coached. He does look older than the other two. They are clearly dressed up. There is no identifying information on the reverse side – just a blank post card form.
Item #11 – Antonette Lavik and Young Girl – Red Lake Falls. This photo shows a woman and young girl, taken in the W. A. Reichel Studio, Red Lake Falls, Minnesota. Rasmus Lavik lived in Red Lake Falls from 1889-1892. The adult woman looks like Antonette Lavik, whom Rasmus married in December 1889. All five children of Rasmus and Ingeborg would have lived here at this time. The sixth child of Rasmus and the first with his second wife Antonette, Ingvald, was born in Red Lake Falls. By the time Rudy, their second son, was born – they were living in Sargent County, North Dakota.
W. A. Reichel is shown in the Minnesota directory in Red Lake Falls, but there is no further information past his name and the city. There are at least eleven photos in this Lavik batch taken by Reichel, and there appears to be at least two distinctive styles of his name at the bottom of the photograph. William Reichel is shown in the 1900 census in Red Lake Falls, age 33, born in Minnesota in August 1866 – a photographer. He is shown in the 1895 Minnesota state census as W. A. Reichel, age 29, a photographer living in Red Lake Falls. I also found a newspaper clipping of a fire in the W. A. Reichel building in Red Lake Falls in 1907. It appears that he was very young when he started his photographic business in Red Lake Falls. If he photographed Ingvald Lavik before the Lavik’s left in 1892 – he would have been in his mid to early twenties.
Of Rasmus’ three daughters, Hannah would have been between six and nine in this era, the daughter Dora would have been between nine and twelve, and the daughter Marie would have been between twelve and fifteen. It is more likely, given the age, that if this is one of their daughters, it is the youngest, Hannah. Ingeborg, the mother of Hannah, had died in 1886, three years before they were in Red Lake Falls, so this could be Antonette with her stepdaughter. There is a photo of a couple taken at the same studio, but the woman in each photo appears different.
There are eleven photographs in this collection that were taken by the Reichel Studio in Red Lake Falls - Items #11, #25, #26, #36, #37, #55, #76, #108, #121, #122, and #307. The only commonality is that it appears Antonette is in a few – almost always with someone else. One is of a baby that is likely Ing Lavik – the one child of Rasmus and Antonette that was born in Red Lake Falls.
It should be noted that Red Lake Falls County is adjacent to Polk County in MInnesota – just under twenty-five miles from Crookston, and just over twenty-five miles from Fertile, just under thirty-five miles from Rindal and Maple Bay – all locations where Ofstedahl family members were during this period - both Rasmus’ sisters Agate Ofstedal and Tjorborg Lavik were in Polk County during this period.
Item #12 – Unidentified Woman in what appears to be a wedding dress, taken by Genelli Studio, Sioux City, Iowa. This does not appear to be an immediate Lavik family member. An online history indicates that the Genelli Studio was in operation from 1883 until 1898, operated by M. W. Starks.
Item #13 – Two Unidentified Boys and a girl – Wheaton, Minnesota. These three children were in a photo taken by A. [Axel] Carlson Studio in Wheaton, Minnesota. Item #8 was taken in the same place. I used the MyHeritage.com colorization process for old black and white photos - and “colorized” this photo. I posted them side by side here for the comparison. I think it worked well in this instance. I still have to understand who this family was and why they were known to the Laviks. There’s a discussion about that with Item #8, with a list of all the photos in this collection that were taken by Axel Carlson Studio in Wheaton, Minnesota.
Items #14 and #15 – Both sides of a postcard, image side to the left, and message side below. The photo is of Rudy Lavik in uniform, and the message side,, dated January 28, 1919, is signed by “Rudolf” - but there is no name in the salutation of who this card was being sent to. Before I had the photos, someone speculated that this was Ingvald Anton Lavik, I do not recognize that hand-writing - but it is clearly Rudy. In the message, he indicated he “shipped home a flock of post card pictures”, and asked that they be held until the 528 arrives in U. S. “Am having the time of my life”. There’s also a side note about 202 lbs. The post cards mentioned are likely all the postcards of France and Italy that were found with these photos, and were scanned as a separate batch. The transcript of Rudy’s letters, transcribed by Mike Collins, seems to match the location of the postcards.
Item #16 – Photo of George Holden. This photo is on a postcard, undated, with no text, and no location shown. Written on the back is “George Holden” (the backside of the postcard with this handwriting is above right, as Item #16a.). I have tried to track down which George Holden this would be and the relationship to the Laviks. There is a George Holden, 73, on a farm with his son and his son’s family, widowed, in Fairmont Township of the adjoining county of Richland in North Dakota in the 1930 census. He is shown in Grand Forks in the 1900 census, 42, born in Norway, immigrated in 1871, a farmer, with wife Christina, also born in Norway. He appears to be the only George Holden shown in North Dakota in these census years. It is logical that he would know the Laviks somehow, being a Norwegian immigrant in the general vicinity, but the specific connection is unclear.
Item #17 – Probably Norma Lavik – Camrose, Alberta. This was a photo on the photograph side of an undated postcard with no text. The postcard was “published by G. L. Langbell in Camrose, Alta.” (Alberta). John R. Lavik lived in Camrose, from about 1911 to 1923. His daughter Valborg was born in 1909 shortly before they moved there, and his daughter Norma was born in 1911 while they were in Camrose. This photo is likely of one of these two daughters. In looking at photo #68, which is of the John Lavik family a few years later, it is hard to match this daughter to the two shown in that photo – it appears it could be either one. In consulting with Valborg’s daughter Norma Michail in July 2019, she suggested: “Mom was born in August 1909 and her sister Norma was the third child born 1911. Paul was the last child in the family born 1915 and was a baby when the family was at the Camrose College. I think that it is Norma Lavik as Mom was at least six years old when they were at Camrose College.”
Item #18 – Lavik Sisters – J. H. Hunter Studio, Forman, North Dakota, a studio that was operated in Forman from 1902 to 1907. This photo appears to be from the same place and time as Photo #9, which included the five living Lavik siblings from Rasmus’ first marriage, but the two subjects in this photo are wearing different clothing. It is Dora and one of her sisters - either Hannah or Marie. Marie died in October 1902, right at the beginning of the window for this photo – but both younger sisters were shown in the Hunter portrait of the five Lavik children shown in #9 – meaning both Hannah and Marie were alive at the time of that photo. This picture is identical to photo #304. There will always be confusion between Hannah and Marie – and since the second one died in 1908, it is unlikely to be clarified.
#Item 19 - A campaign card for Peter Lavik, running for Polk County Attorney in September 1908. Item #19a - The backside of the Peter Lavik Campaign Card - Anton Lavik's name is written, indicating that it was probably Anton who kept this card. This election was in 1908, and indicates that Peter was in Polk County during these years. I have searched the internet to see if I could find election results. He did not get elected, but I have found no results as yet. I have found an article in the St. Paul Tidende (in Norwegian) of September 11, 1908, describing his candidacy and personal history.
Peter served in the Spanish-American War, in this collection there’s a photo of him in uniform. Peter was likely named for Ingeborg Tuff Lavik’s father Peder Tuff. He died in Minneapolis in November, 1910. It appears that he never married.
Item #20 - Unidentified Wedding Couple – McIntosh, Minnesota. This photo was taken by P. B. Hole, McIntosh. McIntosh is in Polk County, Minnesota a little northeast of Fertile. This is not far from Red Lake Falls, where Rasmus was pastor, 1889-1892. Dorothy Ofstedahl, niece of Rasmus, and her husband Gullik Moen lived in McIntosh, with Dorothy dying in 1889, leaving five children. Gullik lived there after her death in 1889 and remarried. If this photo is of a child of Gullik and Dorothy - four married, Simon, Anders, Gusta, and Theodore. Simon and Anders moved to North Dakota, and each married there. Theodore and Gusta each married in McIntosh, Theodore in 1910 and Gusta in 1912. That fits the timeline Peter Hole was photographing here. I posted this photograph in the page on Dorothy Ofstedal Moen, in the hopes that a descendant might be able to identify it.
Peter B. Hole is shown as being Norwegian, and operated in McIntosh from 1902. The directory states that he learned photography from O. K. Lee in McIntosh, and photographed from the 1890’s to the 1930’s.
Item #21. Unidentified Woman, with Anna – 13 mos. Japan. This photo has written on it on the back “Anna 13 mos”. She is with a woman who quite likely is her mother. The photo information says S. Koga, No. 17 Funadaikumachi, Nagasaki Japan on the back. (the backside of the photo, with the handwriting as well as the photographer ID as #21a, is shown above.) This photo was taken prior to World War II given the period of the photo, and Nagasaki was destroyed in the last days of the war. Google maps shows that this address exists in Nagasaki now, with a number of different entities at this address. One Grimsrud daughter served in Japan, but it appears to have been in the years just after World War II.
Item #22 – Antonette Lavik – Anderson’s Studio, Milnor. North Dakota. This photo is of the same woman as in photo #73 – even though the markings from the studio are different and the dress worn is different. I believe that this is Antonette Lavik and the other picture is likely of her and her grandchildren. There appears to be no Anderson in the Dakota photographer directory before 1920 – which dates this photo as between 1920 and 1940. Rasmus died in 1927, and this photo is probably from the period after his death, and before Antonette died in 1940. Given her appearance, it is likely that this photo is in the mid or late 1930’s.
Item #24 – Anton Lavik – Undated, no studio listed. There are a few photos of Anton Lavik with slightly different angles at this same sitting and with the same frame - Items #84 and #138. Photo #83 shows Anton and Rudy – and all these seem to tie to Anton. There are two pictures of this very shot, and a third in the same kind of holder with a slightly different angle. There is a 1931 grainy photo I was able to pull from a legislative photo that seems to match these photos of Anton - but I do not have in a format that is postable..
Item #23 – Love Valborg, Young Woman. This photo of a young woman, has “Love, Valborg” written in the lower right corner, which was probably a note to her grandmother, Antonette. The handwriting is not clear to the naked eye from this copy, but it written there. There is no date nor an apparent studio, although “Bombay” is imprinted on the back, probably the brand name of the photo holder. There were two Valborgs in the Lavik family during this period – Valborg Lavik, John’s daughter, born in 1909, and Valborg Grimsrud, Dora’s daughter, born in 1914. This does look like one of the daughters in the John Lavik family shown in photo #68, but I do not appear to have a photo of the Grimsrud family to compare this image to. In July 2019, Norma Michail, daughter of Valborg Lavik, indicated that she thinks given the time frame, it may well be a photo of her mother.
Item #25 – Red Lake Falls – Unidentified Young Woman. This is in the same studio as a previous picture (Item #11), that of “W. A. Reichel Studio, Red Lake Falls, Minnesota”. As mentioned before, Rasmus was in Red Lake Falls from 1889-1892. This looks similar to the woman that is in the picture in Japan (Item #21).
Item #26 – Ingvald Lavik (?) – Red Lake Falls. Taken at the Reichel Studio, as were the others from Red Lake Falls (Items #11 and #25 - and eight more from Red Lake Falls later in the collection). No name or date written on the back. Rasmus Lavik was a pastor in Red Lake Falls from 1889-1892. The first and only child of Rasmus and Antonette who was born during this period was Ingvald Lavik, who was born on February 1, 1891 in Red Lake Falls. The odds are that is Ingvald in this photo, in a baptismal outfit (this is very similar to the confirmation outfit the two Ofstedahl babies from Grafton were photographed in another photo in the Lavik box). I have not found a baptism record for Ingvald - but his confirmation record of May 1906 in Milnor, North Dakota listed his age as fifteen and a half and his birth place as Red Lake Falls.
Item #27 - Young Woman, Wheaton Minnesota. Previously shown Items #8 and #13 were taken in the same studio, the A. Carlson studio, Wheaton, Minnesota. Item #8 is of a woman older than the woman in this photo - but there is an apparent family resemblance. Listed with Item #8 are all eight photos in the collection that were taken by Axel Carlson at his Wheaton studio.
The two items above, and the two items below, were all of the same style taken in the same studio - the McCracken Studio, 112 Broadway, Fargo. Elwin B. McCracken had a studio in Fargo from 1914 to 1930. These four photos were taken at the same studio – and therefore are likely of the same family. The Carl Grimsrud and Dora Grimsrud family lived in Hitterdal, Minnesota, just over thirty miles from Fargo from 1929 through 1938 (Dora died in 1934 halfway through this period.). The six Grimsrud children were born between 1906 and 1917. If, for example, these photos were of the Grimsruds, and were taken ca 1934, Gudrun would have been 28; Agnes would have been 27; Bertha would have been 25; Valborg would have been 19; and Carl would have been 18. The first two to be married were Marie in September 1934 and Gudrun in June 1935. There are only four similar photos in this collection, not five. There will be some other photos of the Grimsrud children that can possibly be compared to these. Hopefully I can find a descendant that might recognize one of these photos.
Above left is Item #28 - Young Woman, Fargo, the markings of the McCracken Studio were ever so slightly different than the other three photos.
Above right is Item #29 – Second Young Fargo Woman, also taken at the McCracken Studio in Fargo. Is the same style as the previous picture and the next two pictures.
Bottom left is Item #30 – Young Fargo Man, also taken at the McCracken Studio in Fargo. Is the same style as the previous two pictures and the next picture.
Bottom right is Item #31 – Young Fargo Woman, also taken at the McCracken Studio in Fargo. Is the same style as the previous three pictures.
Item #32 – Young Child – Taken at J. H. Hunter, Forman, North Dakota. This studio matches the style of photos #9 and #18. Forman is the county seat of Sargent County in North Dakota, not that far from Milnor. J. H. Hunter had a studio in Forman from 1902 to 1907, according to the Dakota directory. If this photo was taken during that period, this child was born sometime between 1901 and 1907. Dora Lavik Grimsrud’s first child was born in 1906, and John R. Lavik’s first child was born in 1907. It is not even clear that this is a Lavik child.
Item #33 - Unidentified Older Woman – Moorhead, Minnesota. This photo, taken at the Oyloe Studio in Moorhead, Minnesota. Early on, I thought this might be an older Dora, but she does not have the right facial features. Gerhardt E. Oyloe bought Ole Flaten’s studio in Moorhead in 1930 (see earlier and next photo), and was a photographer there from about 1930 to the 1950’s. This is of the style likely of the first half of the 1930’s.
Item #34 - Young Woman, Moorhead, Minnesota. Taken at the O. E. Flaten, Moorhead, Minnesota. Looks like Dora Lavik Grimsrud. As stated earlier, there is a listing in the Minnesota early photographer directory for Ole E. Flaten, of Vanders Norway, who was in Moorhead Minnesota in various locations from 1884 to 1928. This is the same photo as #81.
Item #35 - Ingvald and Clara Lavik Children, taken at Anderson Studio, Milnor, North Dakota. This seems to be at the same period as #22, and has the same studio markings. Of the Lavik children, John and Ing each had four children – but John’s oldest children might have been in their twentie’s by the time this photo was taken. I concluded that these are Ing’s four children - Agnes, Harold, Melvin, and Robert - and that the photo was taken in the year or so after the youngest, Robert, was born at the end of 1932.
Item #36 - Possibly Marie Lavik, Red Lake Falls. This photo seems to be one of the three Rasmus Lavik daughters, taken at the W. A. Reichel Studio, where the other Red Lake Falls photos in the collection were taken. As previously stated, Rasmus was posted there from 1889 through 1892. The marking is a little different on this photo from the others. This does not look like Dora, and Hannah would have been seven to ten during the Red Lake Falls years – so this is likely the oldest of the three daughters, Marie, who was born in 1876.
Items #37 and #37a - Two Unidentified Women Women, Red Lake Falls. This photo is also from the studio of W. A. Reichel, Red Lake Falls, Minnesota. This looks like an adult and a teenage child. Ingeborg was not alive by the time that Rasmus was posted in Red Lake Falls, and Antonette married Rasmus during this period. The young woman does look similar to the previous picture (#36), and the older woman does not look like Antonette.
Item #38 – A young boy and a young woman (?), Axel Carlson studio in Wheaton, Minnesota. This is the fourth photo from the same studio in Wheaton, Minnesota, the first three being photos #8, #13, and #27. It is not known the relationship between the people in the Wheaton photographs and the Rasmus Lavik family.
Item #39 – Unidentified Child, Montevideo, Minnesota. This photo was taken in the Olson Studio, Montevideo, Minnesota. Rasmus was photographed in photograph #2 in a studio that was in both Montevideo and Appleton. It is not known who this is. Montevideo is in Chippewa County in the west and south of Minnesota. This county is one county away from the Western State Line of Minnesota – and in this area is the state line with South Dakota, not North Dakota where Rasmus and his family lived.
Items #40 and #40a. Ingvald and Clara Lavik. This photo had written on the back “Som lo ny forlova” [which Google translates to “Who laughed new engagement“] Photo number #70 below seems to match. They were married in 1922, and Ingvald was 31 when that marriage took place. It is possible that this photo was prior to their marriage, but it is also possible that the word “forlova” was a term of endearment. The building in the background does not seem to match the prior photo of the Perry Parsonage.
