File:1904 - Anna Jaus Gruenhagen confirmation at age 15.jpg

15 year Anna Jaus confirmation picture. Anna was confirmed at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Moltke Township, MN in 1904.

This was not taken in our church. In those years they went to the photographer in town for their pictures.<ref>Lois L Bode</ref>

source:Myrtle Jaus Meyer collection.

Memories

• Ironing in those days:Carol Langevin It must have been typical to have confirmation pictures taken in a studio. We had a large oval framed picture of my mother holding a scroll on her confirmation day. Can't imagine ironing clothes back in those days.
• Georgia Thran Schulte Carol Langevin first they were sprinkled then they would have wait a few hours before they could be ironed. Ironing was a big job. I remember doing it even after I was married.
• Carol Langevin
• Carol Langevin I ironed a lot when I was in high school. It took a lot of time and so many things were starched at that time. Those old, old dresses had so many ruffles. I have some pictures of very young boys who wore dresses, also. My Grandma Bode had 12 children...laundry would have been very time consuming. I still iron some things, but the fabric is so much better.
• Susan Jones My Mom, Ellen Glaeser was a big advocate of ironing and doing it well. We sprinkled and if we couldn't get to it right away, it went into a bag in the freezer. We even ironed all of Dad's hankies whether for everyday or dress.
• Becky Behm We ironed sheets, dish towels, and yes, the freezer was where they were kept if you couldn't get to them!They were sprinkled to make them wet for pressing. If you froze them they were damp when you got them out and not just sitting in a basket getting more wrinkled.
• Georgia Thran Schulte She is dressed very well or good, and that just the way it was. Mine was a pink like the waffled material. I still have it in mu ceder chest, just to save it.Yes, and every one had the Hymnal or Bible on the picture; I also have my parents, I also have my Great-Grandparents Large German Bible, with lots of pictures, maps and a large section of other things that I don't remember at this time, it is packed away know one can read the German.
• Carol Langevin FacebookMy cedar chest is full of special things, also. Some things will need to go because it is full. I have letters from my mom from way back and mine were in her cedar chest, so I have kind of a journal of all those years. We always wrote once a week. There were no phone calls in those years. Remember only one asking me to come home on the bus for my grandmother’s funeral. That was when I was teaching in 1965 and didn’t have a car. Grandma Mary Panning was born in 1870 in Germany. She came to the USA when she was 13 and traveled from New York by oxcart to Chicago. She was 95 when she died. She was never in a hospital except for her last day.

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