Mitch Blank's North-German Genealogy Site

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This page created October 1st, 2003, updated November 21st, 2006, edited June 15th, 2008

Blank/Beise Family Album

This album contains many of the family photographs used in the Blank/Beise Family area of this web site, in approximately chronological order.

To see a larger version of any image, click on either the small photo or on its name.

There are also many village photographs on this site that can be found by visiting the Map Room (click on the map symbol at the bottom of this page) and then selecting the village.

William and Johanna (Erdmann) Riess

About 1890

Studio photograph of William and Hanna Riess taken not long before her death in 1895. This photograph was perhaps taken in Rochester, Minnesota -- the nearest city to their Haverhill, Minnesota home.

Photo courtesy of James Riess.

Berthold Blank Studio Portrait

Klein Küterstraße 3, Treptow, Kr Greifenberg, Pommern - About 1912

Lydia Beise Blank and Children

About 1914

Anna, Lydia, Ella, and Fritz Blank

Berthold Blank and Comrade in Ulanen

1916

Berthold Blank in WW-I Ulan Cavalry Uniform

About 1916

Frömming Family

Poetenbsteig, Treptow, Kr Greifenberg, Pommern - About 1927

Emilie (Beise) Frömming, son Helmuth, husband Emil Frömming. Section of city wall is behind them.

S. S. Hamburg

The S. S. Hamburg is the ship that broght Ida (Blank) Salchow and her son Alfred to America in 1928. The following year Fritz Blank and the Koski family sailed on the same ship.

She was build in 1926 in Hamburg, Germany, and served a passenger liner until WW-II, when she was requisitioned by the German navy and used as floating accomodations, first in Kiel, later in Danzig and Gotenhafen. In 1945 she was sunk by a mine off of Sassnitz. Refloated in 1950, she was converted into a whale oil factory. She was scrapped in the USSR in the mid-1970s.