Horticultural School, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Leading in the development of landscape beauty one must recognize the Vilevide horticultural and floral experiment station and school near Charlottenlund. Start... More
Veterinary Department, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The oldest and best known department is the Veterinary. It was founded in 1775 and is the third oldest veterinary college in the world. About 200 of the 500 stu... More
Monument of Liberty for Farmers
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Near the viaduct over the railroad tracks in the heart of the city of Copenhagen there stands a monument which is distinctive of the nation's attitude toward ag... More
Developed Farmstead, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "After the place has been established for ten years the shrubbery is developed, trees have grown up along side the house and arbors have been constructed. very o... More
Denmark, Grade School, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "At the other end of the educational system stands the elementary school. It, as well as the higher institutions of learning, is well equipped for athletics and ... More
Denmark, New farmstead, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "There is, however, more of the new. With the division of the larger estates into small farms hundreds of new farmsteads are being built. It seems that all of th... More
Denmark, Old Mill, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "There is some of the old as there is in all European countries. Scattered over the country one sees a few of the old wind mills. Some of them are still used for... More
Denmark, Peter at Askov, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "There is no character in the Folk High School work today of greater interest to Americans than Peter Manniche, who has founded an International High School at E... More
Skanderborb Village Street, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Even in the older sections of the villages the buildings, while they may be uneven, have a neatness of appearance. In this there is an attractiveness which dra... More
Denmark, Church at Askov School
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "At each of the Folk High Schools the church today has a prominent place. This church building at Askov is used almost wholly by the students and faculty of this... More
Denmark, A Well Kept Place lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "N/A". .Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides. .Item Number: P217:set 067 052. .You can find this image by searching for the item num... More
Delivering at Skanderborg Factory
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Auto trucks and wagons of several kinds are mixed in the group which come in early in the forenoon with the pigs for slaughter at the bacon factory. These pigs ... More
Creamery at Vejen, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "One of the finest and largest of the cooperative butter factories is located at Vejen. It produces great quantities of butter for export. The Danes themselves, ... More
Denmark, Village Church, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Hiding along on the train one sees in every village the Danish Evangelical Lutheran church. Usually they are white. Always they have these square towers in fron... More
Cattle are Tethered, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "On the medium and small sized farms one finds the cows tethered--usually in a straight line across the field. This eliminates the need for fences, it eliminates... More
Frederikssund Bacon Factory, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "This cooperative was started in 1894. Now it handles pigs for 4500 members. There are about 50 of these which represent 70 percent of the pig-breeding farmers a... More
Denmark, The Grundtvig Folk High School
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Of all the Danish schools the ones which have received the greatest consideration by American agricultural leaders are the Peoples (or Folk) High Schools. These... More
Hans Christian Andersen Statue - Book for children
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Rather than a preponderance of military statues as in Germany, one finds through Denmark those which honor leaders in teaching, in writing and in the common eve... More
Principal of the Grundtvig School`
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The outstanding factor in the success of the Danish Fold High Schools so far has been their inspiring type of leadership. They have been capable of discussing b... More
Farm Family, lantern slide - Victorian era public domain image
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Nowhere can on find better mannered children or more beautiful home surroundings then on some of these Danish farms.". .Original Collection: Visual Instruction ... More
Denmark, Young Farm Man and Woman
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Partly through the influence of the Folk High Schools young farm men and women have started their careers with interest in landscaping, in improved homes, in ne... More
Transplanted Iceland Home, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "This structure transplanted from the north country gives one the opportunity to understand more definitely how people have lived with few conveniences and under... More
At the Cooperative Butter Factory
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Of the 206,000 Danish farms about 184,000 are regarded as members of the cooperative dairies. Here at one of them the farmers are bringing in their milk. There ... More
Denmark, View of Sweden, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "From the top of this castle one can easily see the shores of Sweden just across the sound. Only once has this Kronberg Castle been in the hands of enemies and t... More
Complete Farmstead, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "It is on the average sized farms where one can see all the buildings together that the neatness and efficient utility plan of Danish farmers shows off to best a... More
Library at Askov, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Although a feature of Bishop Grundtvig's philosophy of education was teaching by example and the "living word" yet he was a great student and writer. Libraries ... More
Danish Landscape, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Scattered over the landscape in nearly all sections of Denmark are the attractive farmsteads. Many of them have all the buildings pure white. Always they look ... More
Denmark, Thatch is Home Grown lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "In the last ten years red tile has supplanted thatch on many of the Danish farm homes. Home grown thatch, however, is needed for repairs to the older roofs.". .... More
Entrance to Lyngby Agricultural Museum
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "In the museums extensive provision has been made for preserving features of farm life of past generations. This government museum near Lynby is developed for th... More
Small Holder's School, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "It was in 1908 that the Small Holder's Union on the island of Fyon established a school near Odense to give training especially for the small farmer and his wif... More
Stores of Fertility, lantern slide
Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides. .Item Number: P217:set 067 044. .You can find this image by searching for the item number by clicking here ( http://oregondigital.org/digcol ) ... More
Dining Room of Christian Kold School
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Perhaps the outstanding feature of the Folk High schools is the sociability which is developed. Dinging quarters are provided for all students and in the dining... More
Denmark, Local Milk Retail Station
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Cooperative milk stations have their local retail stores where they compete on the same basis with other concerns. To the stranger the only indication of its be... More
Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "In the agricultural field the leading institution is the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College which was established as such in 1858. It has an annual enrol... More
Denmark, Workers in the Field lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "On the small farms, however, much of the work is done without machinery and with all members of the family lending a helping hand. As is true of intensive farmi... More
The Danish Farmer, lantern slide
Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides. .Item Number: P217:set 067 061. .You can find this image by searching for the item number by clicking here ( http://oregondigital.org/digcol ) ... More
Park Scene, lantern slide - Public domain portrait drawing
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Then in the parks there are spots of real beauty. This picture shows one of the attractive scenes near the Askov Folk High School. There are sections, particula... More
Train station Margarine Plant at Vejen - Public domain photograph.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Margarine can be made cheaper than butter and it is this that Danish people use in their own homes. This great plant was located within about five blocks of the... More
Building Formerly the Cooperative Bank
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "As further evidence of the shoals and rapids through which farmers' cooperative organizations must ride, even in Denmark, one finds in Copenhagen this great bui... More
Outdoor Restaurant, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The eating places have less of the haste and nervous tension which characterize cafeterias and cafes in American cities. In Copenhagen it is common for tables t... More
Sugar Beet Field, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "One of their crops which requires the most intensive cultivation is sugar beets.". .Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides. .Item Num... More
Denmark, Approach to a Home lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Pathways leading to buildings are often laid out in beautiful form. Hedges seem always to be dense and well trimmed.". .Original Collection: Visual Instruction ... More
Cooperative Buying Establishment, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The Consumers' Wholesale Society with head-quarters in Copenhagen was established in 1896. The first local cooperative buying association was formed in 1866. Th... More
Denmark, Farm Manures are Conserved
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Soil fertility is carefully conserved all through the country". .Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides. .Item Number: P217:set 067 0... More
Denmark, Driveways, lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The landscaping is continued back of the house. Beautiful driveways such as this are common.". .Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slide... More
Denmark, Set of Old Farm Buildings
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "It is customary in Denmark today for farm buildings to be built together. Here we have a group more than a century old. The white section in the center is the l... More
Denmark, At a larger Farmstead lantern slide
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "On farms of two hundred acres, such as this, there is more of machine labor and more of head work.". .Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern... More