Category: Stockholm

  • Iversons gränd

                  Iversons gränd 5, c. 1885. Gustava lived in Iversons gränd 7, now Iversonsgatan, for a few years at the end of the 1890s and in the early 1900s.

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  • Gustava, Stockholm, 1870-1882

    Humlegården, Stockholm, 1880s. Gustava lived close to this park for many years. Anna Cajsa and Johanna’s younger sister Gustafva left Falköping for Stockholm on Oct. 21, 1870. She was 18 years old. Gustava gave birth to a daughter, Susanna Olivia, on Sept. 2, 1873 in Stockholm. At that time Gustava was living in Kalmar, Uppland, where…

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  • Bror Johan II

    Provisoriska barnbördhuset, c. 1890 On Oct. 4, 1873, Anna Cajsa Hedberg gave birth to a second son. She gave him the same name as his older brother, Bror Johan. He was baptized on Oct. 6. Women who couldn’t afford to bring a midwife to their home were forced to give birth in a hospital, where…

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