Dorothy Anker Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Dorothy Ankes
Q, So where did you go on your weddlng trip, the four a£ you?
A. We went to St. Moritz, Switzerland,
Q. Oh, lovely. And what time of year was this?
A, That was in winter. And we went skiing.
Q. So you were married the winter of 1933.
A, Ja. December.
Q. Were you all good skiers?
A. My brother, Hans and I, we wwe, my brother was the best skier. Eut
his wife hardly could ski. While we still went skiing on later
vacations Hans and I, my brother gave it really up.
Q. Well you had not stayed in Munich very long, had you? You $aid you
wenr back there after Christmas.
A. Ja.
Q.
But now you couldn't have been there very long.
A. Na, I wasn't very long but I learned something which was vary
interesting. Later on we took pictures. There came the Faschiag tfme in
Munich and I learned how to take pictures at dances which we introduced
later on as something absolutely new at that time here in Springfield,
Illinols .
Q, Oh, you mean you took pictures of individuals a t dances and balls?
A. Ja, ja.
Q . And dances like that.
A. Like snapshot pictures. And that had nwer been known here in
Springfield and when we came here after that many years, we introduced
that at the Art Association at their Beaux Arts Ball and it was kind of
a sensation in those days.
Q. Oh, f remember when you used to ser up your cameras out in the foyer
of the old Leland Hotel and everyone would come, We have one of your
pictures of our young son and his date. Fasching is usually in February?
Q. Then you were married after that?
A. No, we were married later. I was back then. But by that time Hans
went, my father recommended him to continue his career and quit the idea
of Hellsberg because there was not much future to be seen In that
business to go on. And he wanted, we as a young people should build up
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