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Title: Identified GroupsAdd to your cart.

ID: VMA/RG03/ARCH.Photos.02/Series 1

Extent: 4.0 Linear Feet. More info below.

Arrangement:

This collection is intellectually arranged into ten sub-series:

Sub-Series 1: Church and Church Related

Sub-Series 2: Cultural

Sub-Series 3: Family

Sub-Series 4: Miscellaneous

Sub-Series 5: Missions

Sub-Series 6: Musical groups

Sub-Series 7: Nautical Groups

Sub-Series 8: School

Sub-Series 9: Sports

Sub-Series 10: Wedding

Physically, the photographs are boxed by size.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

A collection of photographs relating to Norwegian-American and Norwegian groups that have been identified.

Administrative Information

Repository: Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum Archives

Alternate Extent Statement: 10 boxes: 2 small boxes and 8 large boxes

Use Restrictions: May be reproduced with written permission from Vesterheim collections staff or executive director. Though Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum may hold the property rights, Vesterheim might not hold the copyrights for materials. Individuals may use materials for non-commercial, private use, but commercial users must secure permissions from the copyright holders and Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum to reproduce, publish, or quote protected materials and photographs.

Box and Folder Listing


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[Sub-Series 1: Church and church related],
[Sub-Series 2: Cultural],
[Sub-Series 3: Family],
[Sub-Series 4: Miscellaneous],
[Sub-Series 5: Missions],
[Sub-Series 6: Musical groups],
[Sub-Series 7: Nautical groups],
[Sub-Series 8: School],
[Sub-Series 9: Sports],
[Sub-Series 10: Wedding],
[All]

Sub-Series 1: Church and church relatedAdd to your cart.
Box 1: Groups Identified, A-M (small)Add to your cart.
Item 1: Five Lutheran Deaconesses, MineapolisAdd to your cart.
Other Information: church, posed, studio, trade
Item 2: Pastors and Professors of the Norwegian Lutheran Church, 1890Add to your cart.
Other Information: church
Related Material: See horizontal files
Item 3: "Ministers and Professors Conference and Augsburg Seminary", 1878Add to your cart.
Photography by W. H. Jacoby, Minneapolis
Creator: Professor Sven Oftedal
Other Information: church
Related Material: See horizontal files
Item 4: Two women of Erelsen Church, 1872Add to your cart.
Two women of Erelsen Church, Chicago, Illinois; Bromstad women
Acquisition Information: M. Buxten, August 7, 1975
Other Information: church, posed, studio
Physical Description: Tintype
Item 5: Run Creek Ladies Aid, Rev. C. K. Preus' charge, circa 1890Add to your cart.
Other Information: church, outdoor, posed, travel
Item 6: Big Canoe Church Ladies Aid, 1906Add to your cart.
Ladies during birthday party for Hilda Larson.  Pictured are: Mrs. Carl Larson (book binder Larson); Mrs. Peter O. Ingvaldstad; Mrs. Hoffos, mother of Mrs. Carlo Sperati; Mrs. Carl Larson (wagon maker Larson); Mrs. Josephine Bergeson, mother of Agnes Luce who gave upon her death a fund to Decorah Lutheran Church; Mrs. Zacharias Halvorson; Mrs. Borger Hanson who is the grandmother of Stan Hanson; Sophie Ingvoldstad, mother of Carsten Ingvoldstad; Helma Larson Ingvoldstad, sister to Charlotte Hexom; Mrs. Henry (Hilda) Larson, mother to Charlottee Hexom; Mrs. Nils Riste (hardware store owners); Mrs. Louis Helgeson; Mrs. Lange (wife of photographer).
Acquisition Information: Charlotte T. Hexom
Originals or Copies Note: This item is a photographic print reproduction.
Other Information: candid, church, posed
Related Material: Image also appears in the Decorah Lutheran Church Through 125 Years, 1863-1988 (BX8076.D43) and includes the photo with a simple ID on page 43.
Item 7: Decorah area pastors at Washington Prairie Parsonage, circa 1890Add to your cart.
Picture postcard, U. V. Koren, J. A. Otleson, Laur. Larsen, H. A. Preus, H. G. Stub
Other Information: candid, church
Physical Description: Mixed photo media
Item 8: Norwegian Synod Pastors and ProfessorsAdd to your cart.
Image of 99 of the Norwegian Synod pastors and professors. "Den norske Synodes Pr
Acquisition Information: Presented by Miss Hildegarde Moe, Decorah Iowa
Other Information: church, posed
Item 9: Pastors of the Synod (Norwegian Lutheran)Add to your cart.
Other Information: church
Related Material: See horizontal files, oversized
Item 10: Pastors of the Vor Frelsers Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1908Add to your cart.
Picture postcard
Other Information: church
Item 11: Chicago pastors, circa 1897Add to your cart.
Picture of Chicago pastors Rawberg, Heundahl, Bleken, Johnson, Reque, Tornson, and Birkelund
Other Information: church, posed, studio
Physical Description: Cabinet card
Item 12: Orfordville, WI churches, parsonages, and pastors, December 1908Add to your cart.
Picture postcard of churches, parsonages, and pastors near Orfordville, Wisconsin mailed to Rev J. R. Birkelund of Chicago
Other Information: church, posed
Item 13: Meeting of the Minnesota District of the Norwegian Synod, June 1898Add to your cart.
Norman, North Dakota
Other Information: church, outdoor, posed
Item 14: "After services in Canada"Add to your cart.
Other Information: children, church, outdoor, posed
Box 3: Groups Identified, A-E (large)Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Church, specificAdd to your cart.
Item 1: Johan P. Lunde, Bishop, Oslo and J. A. Aasgaard, Moorhead, Minnesota, August 19Add to your cart.
Other Information: church, outdoor, posed
Item 2: Norwegian Seaman's Church, Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida, circa 1895Add to your cart.
Christmas photograph with Norwegian flag behind
Acquisition Information: Pensacola Historical Society, Pensacola, Florida
Other Information: children, church, posed
Item 3: Norwegian Seaman's Church, Pensacola, Escambia County, FloridaAdd to your cart.
Christmas photograph with American flag behind
Acquisition Information: Pensacola Historical Society, Pensacola, Florida
Other Information: children, church, posed
Item 4: Pastor O. M. Wangensteen, Iowa River Kirke, Waterloo Ridge Kirke,PrestegaardenAdd to your cart.
Other Information: church
Folder 4: Church relatedAdd to your cart.
Item 1: Missionaries, Chi Kung, ChinaAdd to your cart.
Other Information: church, missions, outdoor, posed
Item 2: Decorah Coffee Party, 1890Add to your cart.
Pictured: O. N. Fasmark, Nordby, Vougshes, Kvasse, Lulla Hjorth, Maggi Bomull, Marie Reque, L. Reque, Lina Preus, Lina Koren, Henrietta Koren, Tilla S., and Tora Larson
Other Information: church, outdoor, posed
Item 3: U. V. Koren, Laur Larsen, and H. G. Stub, circa 1890Add to your cart.
Washington Prairie parsonage near Decorah, Iowa
Other Information: candid, church, outdoor
Item 4: U. V. Koren, Laur Larsen, and H. G. Stub, circa 1890Add to your cart.
Washington Prairie parsonage near Decorah, Iowa
Other Information: candid, church, outdoor
Item 5: Church Choir (Kirke Kor), Stanwood, WashingtonAdd to your cart.
Other Information: church, music, outdoor, posed
Item 6: Bishop Fjellbu and O. J. H. Preus, 1948Add to your cart.
Other Information: candid, church
Item 7: Group gathered for visit of Bishop Brockman of Norway to Decorah, Iowa, 1900sAdd to your cart.
Other Information: church, outdoor, posed
Item 8: Bishop Brockman of Norway in a line of cars in Decorah, IowaAdd to your cart.
Other Information: candid, church, outdoor, travel
Item 9: Rev. Neelak Tjernagel, Olivia Tjernagel, children, and Miss Enestvedt (teacher)Add to your cart.
Photography by Lomen Bros, Nome, Alaska
Other Information: children, church, missions, outdoor, posed
Item 10: Norwegian Synod Pastors and ProfessorsAdd to your cart.
Photography by John H. Oleson, Minneapolis
Other Information: church
Item 11: Norwegian Synod Pastors and ProfessorsAdd to your cart.
Photography by John H. Oleson, Minneapolis
Other Information: church
Item 12: Group of pastors and professors with Bishop Brockman of NorwayAdd to your cart.
Pictured are Vangness, C. K. Preus, Reque, and Bishop Brockman at Washington Prairie Lutheran Church
Other Information: church, outdoor, posed, school
Item 13: Norwegian Lutheran Church of American, Board of CharitiesAdd to your cart.
Other Information: church, posed, studio
Item 14: Ministers Conference, Chicago, Illinois, 1898Add to your cart.
Photography by J. R. Birkelund
Other Information: church, posed, studio
Item 15: Texas clergymen at Ladies Lutheran Seminary, Red Wing, Minnesota, August 1898Add to your cart.
Other Information: church, posed, studio
Item 16: Group of pastors, circa 1870Add to your cart.
Other Information: church, outdoor, posed
Item 17: Group of pastors, circa 1870Add to your cart.
Other Information: church, outdoor, posed
Box 6: Church and MissionaryAdd to your cart.
Item 1: Augustana Synod Ministers, 1979Add to your cart.
Photography by G. G. Oyloe, Ossian, Iowa
Other Information: church, posed, studio, trade
Item 2: The ministers of the Augustana Synd held at their church, Springfield TownshipAdd to your cart.
Photography by O. E. Borlaug, Calmar, Iowa
Other Information: church, outdoor, posed, trade
Item 3: Augustana SynodAdd to your cart.
Other Information: church, posed, studio, trade
Item 4: Synod meeting in Koshkonong, Wisconsin, 1867Add to your cart.
Other Information: church, outdoor, posed, trade
Item 5: Unveiling of marker at East Koshkonong, Dane County, Wisconsin, 10 October 1894Add to your cart.
Other Information: candid, children, church, outdoor
Item 6: Reverend J. J. Strand and Catherinka Hjort, September 1896Add to your cart.
Wedding at Spring Prairie parsonage
Other Information: children, church, family (extended), outdoor, posed, wedding
Item 7: Organizers of East Koshkonong Church, Dane County, WisconsinAdd to your cart.
Jens Vehus, Peder Svertson, Halvor Kisvik, Tollev Bedhus, Ole Ellingsen, Henrik Lien
Other Information: church, posed, studio, trade
Item 8: Salamon Lake, Log Church CongregationAdd to your cart.
Other Information: children, church, outdoor, posed
Item 9: Reverend B. J. Muus and Gunnar JohnsonAdd to your cart.
Reverend B. J. Muus and Gunnar Johnson traveling about organizing Norwegian Lutheran congregations among early Norwegian settlers in Minnesota
Originals or Copies Note: This item is a photographic print of a painting.
Other Information: candid, church, cultural, outdoor, trade, travel
Item 10: Home Mission Committee, 1901Add to your cart.
Pictured: A. Helland, E. P. Harbo, E. M. Brock, L. E. Kjelaas, Chr. Ytrehus
Other Information: church, posed, studio, trade
Item 11: Ladies Aid meeting at the Washington Prairie Lutheran Church parsonage, circa 1890Add to your cart.
Other Information: children, church, outdoor, posed
Item 12: Decorah Lutheran Church Ladies Aid, 1910sAdd to your cart.
Other Information: children, church, outdoor, posed
Item 13: Synod meeting, Vor Frelsers Kirke (Our Saviors Church), Chicago, Illinois, 1908Add to your cart.
Other Information: church, outdoor, posed
Item 14: Founders of Lyngblaustin, Home for the AgedAdd to your cart.
Other Information: church, posed, studio, trade
Item 15: Norwegian Lutheran Deconess Home and Hospital, Chicago, IllinoisAdd to your cart.
Other Information: children, church, outdoor, posed, trade
Item 16: Iowa District Meeting of Norwegian Synod at Bode, Iowa, circa 1908Add to your cart.
Other Information: children, church, outdoor, posed
Item 17: Rev. Seehus, Young People's Society near Locust, Iowa, 1894Add to your cart.
Photography by Levi Fossum, Mabel, Minnesota
Other Information: children, church, outdoor, posed
Item 18: Lutheran Ministers Committee, 1912Add to your cart.
Lutheran ministers committee bringing to a solution the doctrinal controversies between three Norwegian-American Lutheran churches (The Norwegian Synod, the United Lutheran Church and Hauges Synod), leading to the union of these bodies in the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America.  Pictured: Rev. J. Nordly, Rev. G. T. Lee, Rev. N. N. Boe, Rev. S. Gundersen, Rev. I. D. Ylvisaker, Rev. O. G. U. Siljan, Rev. M. H. Hegge, Rev. R. Malum, Rev. Peder Tangjerd, Rev. Gerhard Rasmussen, J. E. Jorgensen, Hagbarth Engh.  Photography by Carl Thomas, Madison, Wisconsin
Other Information: church, posed, studio, trade
Item 19: Eastern District Synod Meeting, Coon Prairie, Vernon County, Wisconsin, 1898Add to your cart.
Inscription on back: J. P. Birkelund
Other Information: church, posed
Item 20: Synod meeting in Spring Grove, Pastors and Professors, 1899Add to your cart.
Inscription on back: J. P. Birkelund. Photography by Chris Engell, Spring Grove, Minnesota
Acquisition Information: Chris Engell
Other Information: church, outdoor, posed, trade
Related Material: Same as Groups Identified, Box 6, Items 24 and 45
Item 21: Board of Charities, United Norwegian Lutheran Church of AmericaAdd to your cart.
Other Information: church, posed, studio, trade
Related Material: Same as Groups Identified, Box 6, Item 23
Item 22: Board of Charities, United Norwegian Lutheran Church of AmericaAdd to your cart.
Other Information: church, posed, studio, trade
Item 23: Board of Charities, United Norwegian Lutheran Church of AmericaAdd to your cart.
Other Information: church, posed, studio, trade
Related Material: Same as Groups Identified, Box 6, Item 21
Item 24: Synod of Spring Grove, Pastors and Professors, 1899Add to your cart.
Photography by Chris Engell, Spring Grove, Minnesota
Acquisition Information: Chris Engell
Other Information: church, outdoor, posed, trade
Related Material: Same as Groups Identified, Box 6, Items 20 and 45
Item 25: Organizers of East Koshkonong Church, Dane County, WisconsinAdd to your cart.
Jens Vehus, Peder Svertson, Halvor Kisvik, Tollev Bedhus, Ole Ellingsen, Henrik Lien
Other Information: church, posed, studio, trade
Item 26: Ministers Conference, Chicago, Illinois, 1905Add to your cart.
Photography by J. R. Birkelund
Other Information: church, posed, studio, trade
Item 27: Meeting of Norwegian Synod at Amherst, WisconsinAdd to your cart.
Other Information: church, outdoor, posed
Item 28: Early pastors of the Norwegian SynodAdd to your cart.
Other Information: church, posed, studio, trade
Item 29: Norwegian Synod, pastors and professorsAdd to your cart.
Photography by John H. Oleson, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Other Information: church, posed, studio, trade
Item 30: First Norwegian graduates from Seminary, St. Louis, MissouriAdd to your cart.
Pictured: Torger Andreas Torgerson, Styrk Sjursen Reque, Jacob D. Jacobsen, Ole Juul.  Biographical information on each individual included.
Other Information: church, posed, school, studio, trade
Item 31: Den Norske Synodes PresterAdd to your cart.
Acquisition Information: Jennie Barsness
Other Information: church, posed, studio, trade
Item 32: Ladies Aid: Mrs. Ove Holm (president), Mrs. Ed Istead (vice president), and othersAdd to your cart.
Acquisition Information: Mrs. Holmes
Other Information: children, church, outdoor, posed
Item 33: Synod Meeting, Bode Iowa, 1910Add to your cart.
Other Information: children, church, outdoor, posed
Item 34: National Norwegian Pioneer Association, Stoughton, September 1908Add to your cart.
This photograph shows many delegates from many states, including C. J. Melaas (state president) and son J. F. Melaas.
Other Information: children, church, cultural, outdoor, posed, trade
Item 35: Hols kirke og Prester and pastors Holterman, Leganger, Gjeldager, Gronland, Olsen, HoyorAdd to your cart.
Photography by C. Christensen, Thomhau, Christiania
Other Information: church, posed, studio, trade
Item 36: After a service in Canada, 1910sAdd to your cart.
Other Information: children, church, outdoor, posed
Item 37: Kvinde foreningsnod (Ladies Aid Meeting), La Crosse Wisconsin, circa 1908Add to your cart.
Pastor, Hans G. Magessen
Other Information: children, church, outdoor, posed
Item 38: Coon Valley CongregationAdd to your cart.
Other Information: children, church, outdoor, posed
Item 39: Confirmation class, Kristuskirken (Minnekirke), Chicago, Illinois, 5 April 1925Add to your cart.
Pictured are Pastor J. H. Meyer, Alice Ely Jorgensen, Richard O. Jacobsen, and others. Photography by Stafford, Chicago, Illinois.
Originals or Copies Note: Item also contains a photocopy of the photograph.
Other Information: children, church, posed, studio
Related Material: See also: Locations, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Minnekirke
Item 40: Early Norwegian pastorsAdd to your cart.
Pictured: B. J. Muus, H. A. Preus, Johs B. Frich, V. Koren
Other Information: church, posed, studio, trade
Physical Description: Fragile
Item 41: D. Kvasse, J. W. Preus, Blomholm, M. Thorson, Halvorsen, Widvey, and Rosenquist in church, 1896Add to your cart.
Other Information: church, posed, trade
Item 42: Norwegian Synod meeting, Koshkonong, WisconsinAdd to your cart.
Originals or Copies Note: This is a photographic print.
Other Information: church, outdoor, posed, trade
Item 43: The confirmation class of Newman Grove, Nebraska, circa 1890Add to your cart.
Pictured are Peter Fredrick von Krog Hess Kjorlau, Reverend Turmoe, and others.
Other Information: children, church, posed, studio
Item 44: Holberg's "Den stundeslöse", 1913Add to your cart.
Play presented by students of Willmar Seminary, Willmar, Mississippi.  Play also goes by the name "Den stundesløse."
Other Information: children, church, cultural, folk costume, posed, school, studio
Item 45: Synod meeting in Spring Grove, Pastors and Professors, 1899Add to your cart.
Photography by Chris Engell, Spring Grove, Minnesota
Other Information: church, outdoor, posed, trade
Related Material: Same as Groups Identified, Box 6, Items 20 and 24
Item 46: Jens Vehus, P. L. Svafskuren, H. Kravik, J. Beehus, Ole Ellingsen, T. Henrik Lien, 1893Add to your cart.
Other Information: church, posed, studio, trade
Item 47: Women's group having coffee outside, 1896Add to your cart.
Wisconsin, Columbia County, Bonnet Prairie
Other Information: church, outdoor, posed
Item 48: Canoe Hauge Chuch Choir, 1 March 1913Add to your cart.
Pictured are Christine Hanson Vine, Olga Haugen Brown, Beatrice Iverson, Alma Langaas Amundson, Marjorie Corson, Nettie Iverson Willing, Ella Iverson, Blondie Langaas, Ella Carson Smith, Anna Hanson Myrah, Hannah Corson Ness, Anna Swenson Fadness, Julia Haugen Erickson, Josie Olson Seegmiller, Clara Olson Dehring, Peter Peterson, Henry Henderson, Joseph Corson, Martin Anderson, Knut Iverson, Johnnie Peterson, John Martinson.
Biographical/Historical Note: The Canoe Hauge Church Choir was directed by Nettie Iverson Willing (1912-1915) and Olga Haugen Brown (1915-1917). The pastor at the time of this photograph was Rev. Wilhelm Rasmussen. Olga Haugen Brown was also the church organist from 1913-1917. They used the song book "New Songs of the Gospel, No. 2".
Other Information: church, music, posed, studio
Item 50: Lutheran pastorsAdd to your cart.
Pictured are Hill, Bergsland, Andersen, Schmidt, Elstad, and Johnson.  This image consists of six carte-de-visite (CDV) portraits by Aristo Photo, Red Wing, Minnesota.
Acquisition Information: Aristo Photo, Red Wing, Minnesota
Originals or Copies Note: This item is a single photographic reproduction of six carte-de-visite (CDV) cards.
Other Information: church, posed, studio, trade
Item 52: Faculty and graduating class of 1925, The Willmar Lutheran Bible School, Willmar, Minnesota, 1925Add to your cart.
Pictured are Olga Christensen, Inga Hamberg, Esther Aasness, Bertha Sampson, Myrtle Gustafson, Alfred Knutson, Ida Jackson, Dean M. C. Dixen, B. P. Farness, Edward Hamberg, Selma Dahlager, Magda Christenson, Alice Anderson, Anna Willand.
Other Information: church, posed, school, studio, trade

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[Sub-Series 1: Church and church related],
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[Sub-Series 3: Family],
[Sub-Series 4: Miscellaneous],
[Sub-Series 5: Missions],
[Sub-Series 6: Musical groups],
[Sub-Series 7: Nautical groups],
[Sub-Series 8: School],
[Sub-Series 9: Sports],
[Sub-Series 10: Wedding],
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