The last of the Swedish portrait series. Click on Swedish CDVs to see the rest. I saved this one for the end because it was the only one with anything written on it. It can be hard to read, but "Grandma & Grandpa Erikson." Grandpa is wearing a medal, but from which war? Or is the medal military? It could have been for years of service as a postman. I guess we'll never know.
Another carte de visite from Sweden. I can't imagine that all these photos aren't from the same family. Click on Swedish CDVs to see more. Only one more from this collection is left, so after a few more posts I'll return and finish things up.
Another Swedish portrait from the studios of Arvid Kierling. Click on Swedish CDVs in labels to see more.
I'm beginning to think I should have called this the Arvid Kjerling collection. Anyway, click on Swedish CDVs in labels to see more. The only child's photo in the lot.
I can't imagine that all of these photos from Swedish Photographer Arvid Kjerling aren't related in some way. Some are clearly from the same family, others could be friends. Click on Swedish CDVs in labels to bring up others. Eventually, there willl be seven of them.
Well, the lady on the left is the same woman form the last post, so if nothing else we know that this photo goes with the previous. I was able to find out a bit about the photographer Arvid Kjerling. He was born in 1864 as Karl Teodor Arvid Kjerling. He opened his first photo studio in 1891 in Trollhatton, and moved his business to Karlstad in 1892. He was successful enough to have opened up additional locations before his death in 1917. So, not a long lived person. Click on Swedish CDVs in labels to see more.
I just picked up some CDVs that were taken in Sweden. I'm trying to buy a few more, so even though there almost all certainly from the same family, I'm going to spread them out, one photo at a time. They'll all be identified as Swedish CDVs in labels at the bottom of the post, so they can eventually all be brought up to be viewed together. Since these were purchased in the United States, I think we can say that they were either mailed to a Swedish immigrant family living in the U.S., or were brought here by the actual immigrants themselves.
