Clara and Minnie Hanson

This portrait of Clara and Minnie Hanson is also undated, but it appears to have been taken possibly a few years after the Hanson children portrait above.


Clara and Minnie Hanson (Decorah, IA: Star Gallery, date unknown), daughters of Charles and Jane (SANDER) Hanson. Image courtesy of Verla Williams.

The following information about the Star Gallery was found at the State Historical Society of Iowa website, IowaHistory.org:

REYNOLDS, BARTLEY J. (1853–1927). Reynolds had a studio in Decorah, Winneshiek County, from about 1892 until 1917. His gallery, called the Star Gallery, was located at 113 W. Water Street (Ben Bear Block). Reynolds' pictures of famous Decorah land sites such as Dug Way, appear in the book Picturesque Decorah which was published by the Decorah Public Opinion newspaper in 1899. He was buried at Phelps Cemetery.