Gobler Family—White Lake (S.D.)—Photo Collection
Content Description
The collection consists of numerous postcards and one leather-bound photo album of images in the possession of Frances (Bohen) Ahrens. The images mainly concern the Gobler family of White Lake (S.D.) most of the images are unidentified. Charles and Katie (Wirt) Gobler came to South Dakota, via Wisconsin, in 1882 where they settled in Aurora County, White Lake Township near White Lake. Photos of the Gobler’s and their youngest child Lorena are identified. There are a number of family scenes taken in the White Lake area. In addition there are postcards specifically of town scenes of White Lake. The collection also includes identified early images of Dakota Wesleyan University (Mitchell, S.D.) and a public school in Volga (S.D.). Other topics include early automobiles, farm animals (specifically horses, cattle and a pig), young women in Geisha costumes, women and flowers, women in swimsuits and photographs of groups of school aged women. The majority of the postcard images are of family scenes, particularly picnics. The photo album contains carte de vistite images from roughly the 1880s, mainly of Gobler family members, presumably while they were in Wisconsin. A number of images are of men dressed as “Turners” or members of a German-American gymnastic clubs.
Acquisition Type
Gift
Restrictions Apply
No
Dates
- 1880s
- 1910s-1930s
Extent
0.25 Cubic Feet
- Automobiles -- South Dakota Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Carte de visite Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Dakota Wesleyan University (Mitchell, S.D.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Family Scenes -- Photographs -- South Dakota Subject Source: Local sources
- Fires and Fire Prevention -- South Dakota Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- German Turners -- Physical Education -- Wisconsin Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Gobler Family
- Hardware Stores -- South Dakota Subject Source: Local sources
- Mills (Flour/Grain) -- South Dakota Subject Source: Local sources
- Photo Album Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photograph Collection -- Manuscript Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Post Office Employees -- South Dakota Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Postcards Subject Source: Local sources
- School Children -- Photographs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Schools -- South Dakota -- Photographs Subject Source: Local sources
- Volga (S.D.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- White Lake (S.D.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
