Identity area
Reference code
CA MHC 713-BK1-078
Title
A view of the nursery garden: potato trials.
Date(s)
- [between 1926-1929] (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 photograph: b&w; 11 x 8 cm
Context area
Name of creator
(1863-1929)
Biographical history
Fred Engen was most likely a Norwegian Canadian that later became employed by American banker Samuel McRoberts and became a key player in the migration of Mennonites from Manitoba and Saskatchewan to Paraguay in the 1926-1929 move. He died in Paraguay and is buried there.
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The photo shows trial plots of potatoes in the nursery garden in Hoffnungsfeld. This is taken from the same viewpoint as BK1-009. A barbed wire fence surrounds the garden and beyond is grassland and Chaco bush.