Dandelion Vintage - Olga Schwenker

I bought about 300 pieces of clothing, accessories and odds-n-ends that came out of a Northern New Jersey Estate. Apparently several generations of a family lived there. From what I know, most of the things belonged to a lady named Olga Schwenker. I have the photo to the left and I have a lock of her hair (strawberry blonde) wrapped in paper and dated 1919. I would guess that she was born in the early 1900s or Teens - I am assuming that she was in her Teens or 20s when she was performing, but she could have been older. She was some sort of dancer or performer in the 1920s and 1930s. Her name was written in several of the pieces of clothing and costumes. The photo is probably a publicity still (I think I have the skirt that she is wearing in the photo) I was able to find out that she had a part in a musical called 'White Horse Inn'. It played at the Center Theatre at Rockefeller Center from October 1936 to April 1937.
I have several 1920s dresses and 1930s gowns and costumes and a bunch of silk and rayon lingerie from that era that were hers. There are just a few older Victorian pieces that may have belonged to her mother. Then there are some 1940-50s slips and a few other 1940-50s items that may have belong to Olga, or to a daughter or someone else who lived in the house in later years. The last person to own the house was an older woman who was somehow related to Olga, and that woman had been selling things out of the house for the past several years to help pay for the property taxes and the upkeep of the house.


Click on the photo for a larger view of Olga. If you buy a piece of Olga's clothing, you can print out this page or print out the picture of her to keep as provenience of the clothing



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