Someone is collecting my Aunt Bert...
Aug. 10th, 2012 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lblanchardFunny how Teh Internets bring people together. My great great aunt Alberta Henrietta Hungerbuehler (1872-1968) took art classes at a place called the Spring Garden Institute in the 1880s. The Institute had competitions and struck medals for the winners. Bert won a couple.
Which are being collected by a fellow from, I think, Minnesota, who is on the board of the American Numismatic Association (these are the coin collectors rather than the scholars). He contacted me after finding this photo on Flickr:
Bert is the one on the top row with the lace explosion at her throat
So in about an hour I'll be pedaling over to the convention center to meet the collector and see Bert's medals. He started giving me a labored explanation of how to get to A Hall, which is -- the location of the major exhibits at the Flower Show! Anyhow, I'll see Bert's medals and the one her sister Amelia got and he'll give me a copy of the article he wrote for their magazine. In return I'll let him see Bert's baby picture and some other old photos and will give him a photo of her as an old woman, printouts of some photos of her better artwork, and a sketch or two.
I wish I had more pictures of Bert as a young woman, but she was the family photographer in the 1890s and early 1900s so she was on the wrong side of the lens for too many photos.
I believe I am the last living family member to have known Bert. In a sense, she lives on for as long as I do, but when I go she'll be well and truly dead.
Which are being collected by a fellow from, I think, Minnesota, who is on the board of the American Numismatic Association (these are the coin collectors rather than the scholars). He contacted me after finding this photo on Flickr:
Bert is the one on the top row with the lace explosion at her throat
So in about an hour I'll be pedaling over to the convention center to meet the collector and see Bert's medals. He started giving me a labored explanation of how to get to A Hall, which is -- the location of the major exhibits at the Flower Show! Anyhow, I'll see Bert's medals and the one her sister Amelia got and he'll give me a copy of the article he wrote for their magazine. In return I'll let him see Bert's baby picture and some other old photos and will give him a photo of her as an old woman, printouts of some photos of her better artwork, and a sketch or two.
I wish I had more pictures of Bert as a young woman, but she was the family photographer in the 1890s and early 1900s so she was on the wrong side of the lens for too many photos.
I believe I am the last living family member to have known Bert. In a sense, she lives on for as long as I do, but when I go she'll be well and truly dead.
