Marguerite H. Voll photograph album, ca. 1909-1920

Summary

Creator:

Voll, Marguerite H., 1909-2008

Abstract:

The Marguerite H. Voll photograph album includes 87 photographs documenting family activities and various events in Plymouth, Wisconsin, as well as Chicago, Illinois.

Extent:

87 photographs in 1 album

Language:

English

Authors:

Collection processed and finding aid created by Annika Dekker and Jakob Dopp, February 2024

Background

Scope and Content:

The Marguerite H. Voll photograph album includes 87 photographs documenting family activities and various events in Plymouth, Wisconsin, as well as Chicago, Illinois.

The album (28.5 x 35 cm) has black cloth with “Photographs” stamped in gold on the front cover. Images include portraits of the Bade, Schram, and Fiedler families as well as views of parades in Chicago (including a Barnum & Bailey Circus parade), group portraits of the Plymouth Hook and Ladder bicycle team, the Sheboygan County Fair, natural landscape scenes, cars, trains, farming, and photographic reproductions of sentimental art. Of particular note is a portrait of Marguerite Bade riding a floor sweeper as an infant in 1909.

Biographical / Historical:

Marguerite Henrietta Bade Voll was born on April 2, 1909, in Plymouth, Wisconsin, to Edwin C. and Karoline O. Bade. She married Rudolph Frederick Voll (1909-1980) with whom she had four children. She was a talented pianist and vocalist and served as vice president of the Plymouth Music Club for a time. Voll passed away on February 9, 2008, in Denver, Colorado.

Acquisition Information:

Purchased from House of Mirth Photos, October 2023. F-1606.2 .

Rules or Conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Subjects

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Subjects:

Photographs shelf.
Automobiles--1910-1920.
Bicycles & tricycles--1910-1920
Children--1910-1920.
Fairs--Wisconsin--1910-1920.
Families--Wisconsin--1910-1920.
Farms--Wisconsin--1910-1920.
Parades & processions--Wisconsin--1910-1920.
Railroad trains--1910-1920.

Formats:

Art reproductions.
Collodion silver printing-out paper prints.
Gelatin silver prints.
Landscape photographs.
Photograph albums.
Snapshots.

Names:

Barnum and Bailey.

Places:

Chicago (Ill.)
Crystal Lake (Marquette County, Wis. : Lake)
Plymouth (Wis.)
Sheboygan County (Wis.)
Sheboygan Falls (Wis.)