Selma Cornelia Aschbrenner, known as Sally, grew up in Marathon County, Wisconsin. As an adult she spent a short time working in Washington D.C. before returning to Wausau to marry and raise a family. This series of posts takes us page by page through the photo album of her teen years and young adulthood. She was an active and vibrant gal. These photos show her doing things she could no long do when her mobility became limited in the following decades.
She collected photographs. Lots and lots of photographs. She took most of them and posed in many. This series gives us a glimpse of Sally’s young life, through her own pictures.
Snow and Golf
The 33rd page of Sally’s photo album featured a collection of photos taken in and around 1928-29. Sally is shown with friends in the snow and playing golf.
Fun in the snow
Sally, second from right, and friends pose on a winter day.
Pictured: Selma Cornelia Aschbrenner, second from right, and unidentified friends.
Location: Marathon County, Wisconsin.
Date: ca 1928-29.
The group of friends poses on top of the snow.
Pictured: Selma Cornelia Aschbrenner, back, far left, and unidentified friends.
Location: Marathon County, Wisconsin.
Date: ca 1928-29.
Arrival of spring
Sally and friends appear happy with the arrival of spring.
Pictured: Selma Cornelia Aschbrenner, far left.
Location: Wausau, Marathon County, Wisconsin.
Date: 1929.
The ladies
Sally’s friends smile for the camera.
Pictured: Unidentified.
Location: Wausau, Marathon County, Wisconsin.
Date: 1929.
1925 Chevy
Sally in her 1925 Chevrolet.
Pictured: Selma Cornelia Aschbrenner.
Location: Wausau, Marathon County, Wisconsin.
Date: 1929.
Marathon Park
Sally and friends attempt to golf. It doesn’t look like they quite understand the game yet. Let’s hope the friend on the ground didn’t get hurt.
Pictured: Selma Cornelia Aschbrenner, second from right, and friends.
Location: Marathon Park, Wausau, Marathon County, Wisconsin.
Date: 1929.
Sally and friends were not speeding when they posed with the Marathon Park speed limit sign.
Pictured: Selma Cornelia Aschbrenner, far right.
Location: Marathon Park, Wausau, Marathon County, Wisconsin.
Date: 1929.
Sally’s friends hide in the trees at Marathon Park.
Pictured: Unidentified.
Location: Marathon Park, Wausau, Marathon County, Wisconsin.
Date: 1929.
Sally and friends pose on the golf course.
Pictured: Selma Cornelia Aschbrenner, center, and unidentified friends.
Location: Marathon Park, Wausau, Marathon County, Wisconsin.
Date: 1929.
The gals pose on a tree stump.
Pictured: Unidentified.
Location: Marathon Park, Wausau, Marathon County, Wisconsin.
Date: 1929.
Many thanks to Uncle Chuck Krueger for gifting Sally’s photo albums to me. I suppose I’m the only one who is obsessed enough with family history to spend hours and hours doing something with them. Of course, I thought I should find a way to share.
I didn’t join the Krueger family soon enough to meet Sally. She died 15 May 1983, just two weeks after I started dating her grandson (now my husband). I’m sad that I missed getting to know her. I’m glad that she left a legacy of photos that help me see a side of her that maybe even her own family didn’t get to see.
Many of the faces and places in the photographs are not labeled. If you can help identify someone or someplace, correct any mistake I may have made, or otherwise add to the story, please contact me, for example by submitting a comment. Thanks.
Who is Who?
Fred and Alice Aschbrenner family
Sally Aschbrenner, the subject of this series of posts, was the daughter of Alice Rosalie Fehlhaber and Frederick A. Helmut Aschbrenner. She had one brother named Freddy.
Three-generation pedigree chart
The Aschbrenner Family
- Publication date: February 2022
- Pages: 728
- Formats:
- This books explores Aschbrenner family history. Friedrich August Aschbrenner had a son, named Friedrich Samuel Aschbrenner, who immigrated to Marathon County, Wisconsin. This book traces thousands of descendants of the immigrant. Detailed biographies are provided for the families of our direct line from Friedrich Samuel Aschbrenner through Frederick Wilhelm Aschbrenner and Frederick August Helmut Aschbrenner to Selma Cornelia Aschbrenner.
- Winner of the Wisconsin Historical Society 2023 Board of Curators Genealogy/Family History Book Award.
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