Mimi Frellsen

[1] From the beginning of the 1860s, she served an apprenticeship in the photographic studio of Olsen & Thomsen in Christiania.

[2] On 17 May 1865, she acquired the photo plate archive and studio on Oslo's Nedre Slottsgate which had belonged to the photographer Marie Thomsen.

[3] The following year, perhaps when business was not going too well, she announced she was interested in giving courses to those who wished to learn how to weave straw using the German method.

[4] From around 1879, she moved her studio to the Oslo street called Grensen where she specialized in photographing children and animals.

In 1881, the Church Ministry awarded her 300 crowns under the Cecilie Schous legacy so that she could acquire more equipment for her photographic studio.