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.
Farewell to Washington and Back to Wisconsin
The 46th page of Sally’s photo album includes the last photos from Washington D.C. and a variety of shots from Wisconsin.
Washington D.C.
Four more photos of Sally in Washington D.C. were included on this page of the album.
Sally and a friend in Washington D.C.
Pictured: Selma Cornelia Aschbrenner and Unidentified.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Date: circa 1932-33.
Sally, far right, and friends in Washington, D.C.
Pictured: Selma Cornelia Aschbrenner and Unidentified.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Date: 1932-33.
Pictured: Unidentified.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Date: 1932-33.
Sally’s friends. Pearl Nelson is in the center.
Pictured: From left, Unidentified, Pearl Nelson, and Unidentified.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Date: 1932-33.
Sally
Sally!
Pictured: Selma Cornelia Aschbrenner.
Location: Unknown.
Date: circa 1933-35.
Ooh La La Norman
While Sally was in Washington, D.C., Norman decided that she should come back and get married – to him. Maybe he sent her this photo when he was trying to convince her?
Pictured: Norman Arthur August Krueger, far right.
Location: Wisconsin
Date: 1932-33.
Supervising children
Sally and Norman must have both been involved with activities involving groups of children. The following photos show them as the only adults, surrounded by kids.
Norman and Sally pose with a group of children.
Pictured: Norman Arthur August Krueger, Selma Cornelia Aschbrenner, and unidentified children.
Location: Wisconsin.
Date: circa 1934-36.
Sally, on right side of back row, poses with a group of children.
Pictured: Selma Cornelia Aschbrenner, back row, and unidentified children.
Location: Wisconsin.
Date: circa 1934-36.
Sally poses with a group of children.
Pictured: Selma Cornelia Aschbrenner and unidentified children.
Location: Wisconsin.
Date: circa 1934-36.
Sadie and Emil
This photo features Norman’s sister Sadie and her husband Emil. Sadie is cautiously touching a young child. Sadie and Emil did not have children of their own so the identity of the child is not known.
Pictured: Emil Robert Hollman, Sadie Clere Krueger, and Unidentified.
Location: probably Wausau, Marathon, Wisconsin.
Date: 1934,
Girl
An unidentified girl poses in her Sunday best. Perhaps this is a confirmation photo or another special occasion?
Pictured: Unidentified.
Location: Unknown.
Date: circa 1934.
Beach
This is a picture of a beach. A beach in 1933. But where? No idea.
Location: Unknown.
Date: 1933.
1415 Grand Avenue
Sally and Norman married on 11 November 1933. This was their home at 1415 Grand Avenue in Wausau.
Location: 1415 Grand Avenue, Wausau, Marathon, Wisconsin.
Date: 1934.
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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