The Lawaetz family is gathered here in front of the Little La Grange estate house in 1938
Standing: Erik, Kai, Bodil, Anna, Carl and Marie.
Kneeling: Frits with Hans.
On the Campaign trail: The sign in the windshield says "Lawaetz for Senator" Judiht, Frits and Bent stand in front of Hans' 1955 Pontiac
Men using picks, axes and hoes clear a hillside of brush under the direction of estate owner Carl Lawaetz
One of the first kinds, of bulls "creolo, " which Lawaetz used for breeding
A steam-powered hole digger is brought to the "Overgut" site to dig a well, 1926
The torrential rains from hurricanes cause runoff from the hills to Frederiksted through the La Grange gut. To the left is the La Grange concrete aquaduct, engineered by Hagemann
Lighted candles signal Christmas in the Lawaetz household. Jenny Lawaetz is seated to the right.
The annual agricultural fair draws displays from farmers from all over St. Croix. Here Kai has photographed his booth with bananas, coconuts and oranges.
A mother and child and Carl Lawaetz examine an above-ground water cistern for the estate residents
The Lawaetzes were close to the sisters at the Ebenezer Home for Girls and sponsored picnics on their grounds several times a year.
The Lawaetzes were close to the sisters at the Ebenezer Home for Girls and sponsored picnics on their grounds several times a year.
A Lawaetz-sponsored outing for the Ebenezer girls is held in town. They gather for the photo under the Danish flag
Ebenezer girls and their care givers walk to church on Sunday
Members of the Frederiksted Danish Lutheran congregation
Frederiksted countryside estate owners and their wives enjoy a day's outing with Carl Lawaetz.
Frits on his pet donkey poses with Erik and Kai.
Frits, 13, on his pet donkey Violet, with Erik 7 and Kai age 11.
Frits gives his sister a ride in his own horse cart.
Copy of a photo taken by Emelie Langkaer of the small children at the Queen Louise Home with Sister Maren, center, a deaconess of the facility.
Infants, small children and their caretakers at the Queen Louise Home
Infants, small children and their caretakers at the Queen Louise Home.
Queen Louise Home and the small children living there with their caretakers.
Children and their caretaker from the Queen Louise Home pose for a photo
Danish flags flutter over a picnic scene on the Little La Grange property
Carl Lawaetz with his wife Marie at the right and his two oldest daughters, Else and Anna
A worker and his family stand outside their small home in the "village" of Est. Little La Grange
Bodil Tornoe Lawaetz in 1940s
After Carl's death in 1947, Bodil is at the center with Frits directly behind her. Roy stands to her right and Mona to her left with Jenny behind Mona.
Family after Carl's death in 1947.Bodil, center with Frits behind, Roy to her right, Mona to her left. Behind Mona is Jenny.
After the death of Carl 1947. Bodil with her children. Kai, Bodil , Anna and else. Behind: Erik and Frits.
Kai Lawaetz
Kai og Erik Lawaetz.
Carl, ukendt person, Marie og Kai Lawaetz.
Carl, Erik, Kai and Marie with other family members.
| Bodil, Kai and Carl Lawaetz |
Four grazing horses find grass in front of the estate's aquaduct
Practicing for the Christmas-second day races!
SIte of the animal mill. In the center where the machinery operated, is now planted with flowers.
In Frederiksted, a Strand Street store offering Danish specialities
Roy Lawaetz, son of Erika and Jenny Christensen Lawaetz. High school graduation picture of Roy, son of Erik and Jenny Christensen Lawaetz
High School graduation picture of Hans, son of Frits and Bodil Tornoe Lawaetz
Bent og Hans Lawaetz
Frits Edouard Lawaetz
Frits Edouard Lawaetz
Lawaetz gardener Joe Brumstorf. Frits remembers helping him in the kitchen garden.
A Little La Grange worker in the residents' village.
Kai demonstrates the use of the new garden plow as David, Frits Jr., Mona and Bent look on.
Erik, Kai, Anna, Bodil, Carl and Marie are standing watching Frits with baby Hans and goat c1940
The younger children are Mona and Roy Lawaetz, late 1940s
On horseback are Frits and Bodil.
Erik and Kai with their mother Marie and father Carl
After the 1928 hurricane, the men measure the depth of the water settled in the gut. Above is the estate windmill.
A cook and a gardener at Est Annaly.
A herd of horses grazes in the open pasture.
Fritz posing outside with the family cook and her son.
The cousins and their friends. Roy on at the left and Fritsie at the right with Mona in the middle of this cheerful group.
A Lawaetz tradition:singing and dancing around the candle -lighted Christmas tree.
Christmas Eve dinner at the family home. Jenny Christensen Lawaetz to the right.
Christmas at Erik Lawaetz family home. Seated Marie and Mona Lawaetz, behind her is Roy, Jenny and Erik 1960s.
1960s photo of a Transfer Day, Mar. 31, parade in Frederiksted.Marchers dressed as Danish military while at the right US navy sailors look on.
Troupe of Indinas in the Crucian Christmas Festival parade in Frederiksted in the 1960s
Overhead view of "bringing" down the crowd" when revelers following the last entry.
Historic Danish office buildings under the management of the National Park Service, 1960s
Frits checking out a newborn calf and its mothe
Carl Lawaetz and his daughter observing the height of the runoff in the gut after the 1928 hurricane. Workers' homes are on the hilllside
The family gathers in the Lawaetz garden for Irene and Kai's wedding.
Postcard of Government House, Christiansted 1940s
A cargo ship unloads supplied at the Frederiksted pier. 1940s
Professional photo of Frits , one year old, October 1908
An Emelie Langkjaer photo of local women observing a new washing machine.
Frits, Erik, and Kai in Denmark during the summer of 1927
The windmill on the hill over looking the Little La Grange , estate. 1916
Crowds gather in Customs House Square, Frederiksted as the final destination of a church procession.
Speakers address those gathered in Customs House Square, Frederiksted
Carl and Marie with Anna and Else.
Plaiting the Maypole in Frederiksted town
Cattle at the watering trough
Taking a walk along the shore in Denmark
Bringing up water from the Little La Grange cistern
Examining the construction of the Creque Dam 1930
Steamships in the Frederiksted roadsted
Erik and unknown woman
Erik Lawaetz
Hans and Bent, 1940s
Emelie Langkjaer photo of infants at Queen Louise Home
Emelie Langkjaer photo of children at Queen Louise Home and their caretakers
Emelie Langkjaer photo of children and caretakers at Frederiksted Queen Louise Home
Søster Maren, en af diakonisserne i Queen Louise Home
Lutheran Church activity
Lutheran Church, Frederiksted activity
Carl is at the head of the table with his Danish neighbors from Northside estates and two deaconesses from Queen Louise Home.
Sr. Maren Knudsen and child from Queen Louise Home
A young worker meets two Danish women picnicking with a child.
A church procession down King Street, Frederiksted.
Ovesen picture?
A church procession down King Street.
Ovesen picture?
Ovesin postcard. Scene of a church procession, Frederiksted
Ovesen postcard of fishermen bringing in the catch.
St. Patrick's first communion students in front of American flag draped Customs House in Frederiksted.
Altar of Holy Trinity Luthern Church, Frederiksted
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Frederiksted
Søsterr Emma with girls of the Ebenezer Home
Ebenezer Home for Girls, Frederiksted
Country residents enjoy a day of leisure in Frederiksted in 1916. Estate workers coming into Frederiksted town on pay day.
Members of the Lutheran Church vestry meet informally with one member's children
Members Lutheran Church vestry, Frederiksted; Carl seated on the right
Deaconess with Danish residents' children
Two Ebenezer residents visiting the Lawaetz garde
An Ebenezer resident
Hagemann with his two daughters
Women of the Lutheran vestry
Ellen and Emelie Lankjaer at their home at 10 Strand Street
A wooden Victorian overseer's house with lattice work and a protective shading (flycatcher) for the back staircase.
At a Northside Estate House
Funeral at Frederiksted Lutheran Church
In the middle of the guest is young Kai and at the right is Carl.
| Søster Maren Knudsen i København |
Danish Church at Christmastime
To the right, Carl Lawaetz in Denmark, 1930s
Danish Lutheran Church members, deaconesses and pastors in front of a silk cotton tree.
Creque Dam
Masqueraders with screen masks participate in a May pole plaiting dance
Portraying John Bull on his horse named King George or Queen Mar
Washing clothes at the well
A resident with his horse in the workers' village
Brumstorff and his family in the workers' (house) village called Overhill
On the front lawn of LLG, neither the children nor the cattle are concerned with one another
Picking pigeon peas for dinner
People resting at the base of a silk cotton tree
Frits and trained hold a horse while a baby Hans shows great interest 1940s
Grazing the lawn in front of the aqueduct ruins, LLG
A prized bull
Frits examining the depth of water in the gut after a heavy tropical storm
Guests play croquet on the lawn in front of an ivy decked gallery
The windmill to the north west of the LLG greathouse
Different sized canon line the parapet of Ft. Frederik in Frederiksted
Two men stand in the courtyard of Ft. Frederik. Two canon collections lie on the brick floor.
Ovesen photographes mocko-jumbies in screened masks delighting the crowd in town.
Ovesen photo of one of the many brass bands
Masqueraders participating in a Christiansted parade
A quelbe band with guitar, flute, guiro (squash shell) and gas pipe entertain in Christiansted.
Travelling doen a palm tree- lined road.
LLG residents stand in front of the manager's house
Playing marbles: Mona, Roy and David.
With the cane stalks far taller then they, the workers quickly the the stalks.
Workers pose in the canefield for a photo
Beyond the eye, lie fields of cane. A superviser watches from the left.
The back of Little La Grange
Peering out from the upper gallery windows at Little la Grange
Carl Lawaetz stands at the cistern cister
Carl Lawaetz at Creque Dam
Carl Lawaetz showing his prized cattle
Marie Lawaetz with one of her younger children
Ellen Langkjaer, Carl Lawaetz and his three sons
Carl Lawaetz standing with his two eldest daughters; Marie sitting on the ground
Ellen Tovesen
Marie with her first three children and a visi
Marie and her sister (standing)with Anna, Else and Frits with Carl holding the donkey
Marie with Frits, 1 year old.
Frits, 1 year old.
Anna, Else, Frits, Kai, and Asta 1913.
Asta 1913.
Else, Carl, Anna, Marie holding Erik. Asta and Frits standing in front 1913
Asta, Frits, and Erik
Picnic with the deaconesses
Group photo with Srs. Maren and Carolina
Carl with child in front of the aqueduct
Playing a ring game Frits and Kai
The cook with the children
Front gallery of LLG
In front: Frits, Asta and Else Back: Anna and Marie
A children's Sunday party
Erik about 7 yrs ol
Else about 12 yrs old
Kai Lawaetz
Anna , around 13 yrs old at the piano
Erik Lawaetz
Postcard of fishermen at Altona Lagoon
A big smile for the camera. Emelie Langkjaer postcard: Mother beting children
Postcard of women washing clothes at Harden Gut, Frederiksted
Postcard: Buggy down Palm Allee
Frederiksted Ball Park area
St. Croix Country Club, Frederiksted
Two farmers hoeing the cane
Steamship off Frederiksted coast
Merwin Building, seen from Frederiksted town pier
Coconut palms.
Postcard: Fort and waterfront, Frederiksted
Children playing in front of St. Patrick's School, 1950s
St. Croix Country Club, Frederiksted
Coconut palms
Close-up of coconut palms
Coconut palm trees at the beachside
View of Free Gut and further out to the Cay, Christiansted
President Harry Truman's visit to Christiansted
Hilltop view of LLG
Naval cruiser off the coast of Frederiksted
Marie, Carl Lawaetz med søster Maren
Anna Lawaetz
Carl Lawaetz resting on his gallery
Marie Lawaetz at the center round table of the living room
Frits Lawaetz med hans hest.
Frits and workers clipping the horns of the bull
Kai working in his vegetable garden
Ovesen's photo of a masquerader in town
Marie, a guest and Carl
Carl and Marie 1930s
Carl, Frits and Marie
Carl and Marie on either side of two friends 1930
Carl, Kai, Marie
The Lawaetz cattle herd. Brahmin breed of cattle.
Frits with his Senepol breed of cattle
Cowboys driving the herd across the vast estate.
Cooks and child minders at LLG
On horseback
Minding the chickens
Criollo cattle
Guests and Marie and Carl
Marie and a friend 1950s
Frits and Bent on Billy 1941.
Bodil,Frits holding Bent, Hans standing,Erik, Carl and Marie
Marie and Carl with Hans and Bent 1940s
Bodil, Frits and Bent 1940s
Hans and Bent Lawaetz in 1940s
Carl and Marie inspecting a bull 1940s
Marie's painting of Kingshill Lutheran Church
Deaconess, søster Maren, visits children at their home
Deaconess søster Maren and Marie 1940s
Deaconess, søster Maren, with Queen Louise Home children; Lawaetz children on the right
Kai Lawaetz with a horse
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Frederiksted
Interior of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
Kai Lawaetz with his mother, Marie Lawaetz 1950s
Three horsemen at Little la Grange.
Irene and Kai Lawaetz on horseback
Gardner's assistant
Playmates from the village 1950
Woman's best friend
Children from the LLG village 1950s
Mona with a puppy and her grandmother Marie behind watches the rest of the litter.
Mona and David changing a tire
Kai with a pet monkey
Bent
Hans off to school in the States
Enjoying a day on the beach
Jenny helping David on the donkey while Mona looks on
Harvesting Kai's pineapples
Children helping Kai gathering the pineapples
A bull is in the front yard
Jenny, Erik, Kai and others for a snack
Families from the village with one of the workers leading with a guitar
Marie Lawaetz
Marie in Denmark looking at old pictures
Hans and Judy Lawaetz 1960s
Søster Maren in Denmark
To the right, next to the last is Marie Lawaetz
Søster Maren
At the clock town by Fort Frederik, US Marines look on as guests pose for photo
Chruch women gather. Alma Latimer at left, the deaconess Søster Maren and Marie Lawaetz. At the end, Anna
Søster Maren i Danmark.
Marie with relative in Denmark
With watermelon in her hand, she is carrying a cabbage on her head
On board a ship, Crucians and American officials greet one another
Nurse at Frederiksted Hospital
Christmas picnic at Nisky 1916
Smashing the barrel for Fastelaven
Postcard of La Grange at harvest time
Kingshill Lutheran Church
Centerline Road traveling east to Christiansted. Kingshill Lutheran Church
Christmas card from Frits in Denmark 1963
Christmas card
Animal Pens at Little la Grange
Interior of Lord God of Sabaoth Lutheran Church, Christiansted
Kai with puppies
Postcard of the Grand Hotel, St. Thomas
Postcard to Marie Lawaetz 1921
On the beach Jenny and Roy with a friend
Outside of Lord God of Sabaoth Church are Jenny, Mona and Roy
Back: Frits, Kai, and Erik, Jenny
Front: Bodil, Irene, Anna, and Marie
The Erik Lawaetz children: Mona, Roy and David
Mona Lawaetz and her dog
Riding a donkey
Party at the beach 1960s
View of Magens Bay, St. Thomas
Christmas at Little la Grange. Dancing around the lighted tree
Christmas at Little la Grange. Dancing around the lighted tree
Marie's decorations in a variety store in Frederiksted
A clothing shop
Interior of a shop
Frits with guests at Est Annaly mill
Marie with Susie and baby
Erik, Kai, Frits, Anna and Bodil
Birthday clowns and donkey
Festival clowns with screen masks
Brunstoff Family display Danish flag Overhill
Lawaetz burial at Little la Grtange Hans, Erik, Bent, Kai, Matthew and Bryson
Frits helps Marie blow out candles
Marie's birthday; Melvin Evans stands behind
Marie's birthday
Marie opens birthday present
Lawaetz funeral at Holy Trinity Church
Friends wish Marie a happy birthday
Lithograph of a Danish farmer plowing his fields
Children in Denmark
Lawaetz family and young man that Søster Maren brought to Denmark
Søster Maren and the young man she brought to Denmark
Lawaetz family and the young man Søster Maren brought
Young man brought by Søster Maren to Denmark
Lawaetz family in Denmark 1890s
Lawaetz family in Denmark 1890s
Frits and cousin in Denmark
Young man from St. Croix
Marie with friends in Denmark
Lawaetz grandchildren and care taker
Little La Grange, Lawaetz family home 1930s
Little La Grange, Lawaetz family home 1930s. A healthy vine growing at the side of the house
Little La Grange, Lawaetz family home 1930s
Hans, a horseman and Frits and unknown woman at the gates of the estate
Caretaker and infant
David, Mona and Roy, Erik's children
Ukendte personer; Lawaetz-familiens fotosamling.
Erik and Jenny Lawaetz with Roy,standing and Mona in Jenny's arms
Frits in Denmark
Grandchildren drive sheep to pasture
Marie with Roy, Jenny, Erik Roy Bodil, Mona, David and Kai
Sailors from Valkyrien at leisure 1916.
Valkyrien sailors around a windmill 1916.
Sailors and family members around the Danish flag
Ovesen photo of a procession
