Unidentified Locations | Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum Archives

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Collection Overview

Title: Unidentified LocationsAdd to your cart.

ID: VMA/RG03/ARCH.Photos.01/Series 3 Unidentified

Extent: 1.2 Linear Feet. More info below.

Arrangement: This collection is intellectually arranged alphabetically, by state.  Physically, the photographs are boxed by size.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

A collection of Norwegian-American photographs relating to unidentified locations.

Box and Folder Listing


Browse by Box:

[Box 1],
[Box 2],
[Box 3],
[All]

Box 1Add to your cart.
Item 1: Buildings Houses, Uncompleted Sod HouseAdd to your cart.
Small uncompleted sod house with man standing out front. Man is smoking a pipe while holding skillet and cooking utensil.
Other Information: home, people
Physical Description: Picture Postcard
Item 2: McWilliams Schoolhouse and Town HallAdd to your cart.
Single room log building.
Other Information: school
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 3: Unidentified FarmsteadAdd to your cart.
Farmstead photograph taken from across a field. Large wind turbine in center of photograph with building in the center and barn towards the right.
Other Information: farm
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 4: Unidentified Postcard of Farm with People Gathered in Front, circa 1890Add to your cart.
Five people and horse gathered in front of home. Four buildings in picture with white fence in the foreground.  Back of postcard reads in Norwegian "This is our home. Those of us that stand first- our wife? [illegible] and daughter of my brother Per in EauClaire and a daughter of my wife's sister. Your Uncle Carl.
Acquisition Information: Larry Wagner
Other Information: farm, people
Physical Description: Picture Postcard
Item 5: Unidentified Church InteriorAdd to your cart.
Church interior facing towards pulpit and altar. Light fixture with six glass lanterns hangs in upper right. Similar light fixture in background.
Other Information: church
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 6: Unidentified Masonry BridgeAdd to your cart.
Photograph of bridge over small stream.
Creator: Badger Photo Shop, Sparta, Wisconsin
Other Information: landmark
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 7: Eight Postcards of Unidentified Gothic Style CathedralAdd to your cart.
City street and buildings in foreground with Cathedral towards back of photo.
Other Information: church, town
Physical Description: Eight Picture Postcards
Item 8: Unidentified Church Building, Jun-75Add to your cart.
Color photograph of church building. Roof of church is brown in color while the steeple is grey.
Other Information: church
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 9: Unidentified Church Stoughton Wisconsin area?Add to your cart.
Paper sleeve empty
Creator: Mudgard Studio, Stoughton Wisconsin
Other Information: church
Physical Description: unknown
Item 10: Church and Congregation in Ambohipantiana, UnidentifiedAdd to your cart.
Thatched roof church building with large crowd of non-European people gatherd in front. One man stands apart with pith helmet.
Other Information: church, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 11: Unidentified Church UNder ConstructionAdd to your cart.
Note on back reads church at Boi[n? illegible], T Gullison
Other Information: church
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 12: Wilmington Church Cemtery Sign, UnidentifiedAdd to your cart.
Color photograph of "Wilmington Church Cemtery- Burials Since 1863" sign. Corner of building in left of photograph
Other Information: landmark
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 13: Wilmington Church CemeteryAdd to your cart.
Photograph of cemtery with three trees in photo.
Other Information: landmark
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 14: First Norwegian Settlement Drawing, Unidentified LocationAdd to your cart.
Drawing of small hut with "Den förste norske Kirke i Settlement"
Other Information: church, landmark
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 15: Church at Fisakama, Unidentified Locale,Add to your cart.
Photograph of church with non-european congregation gathered out front.
Other Information: church, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 16: Church in Fort Dauphin, Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Side profile of the church with steeple in right background
Other Information: church
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 17: Unidentified Church InteriorAdd to your cart.
Church interior faing altar. Altar has large statue of Jesus above with two flags on either side of altar table. Christmas tree in right of photograph.
Other Information: church
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 18: Church in Manamboro, Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Side view of church with stone steeple towards left. A bell stands in the far left of the picture and a ladder in the far right.
Other Information: church
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 19: Ramomafana Church, Unidentified Locale, November of 1912Add to your cart.
Crowd of non-europeans gathered in front of church. Church steeple has what appears to be a simple form of scaffolding.
Other Information: church
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 20: "S. Olave's Looking East", Church Interior, Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Interior of gothic style sanctuary, back states: St. Olave [illegible] Eastend, pre-War
Other Information: church
Physical Description: Picture Postcard
Item 21: Picture Postcard of Parsonage with Crowd Gathered In Front, Unidentified Locale, 1910Add to your cart.
Back reads: "Parsonage of Pastor Laug[h]lands Kald 1910"
Other Information: home, people
Physical Description: Picture Postcard
Item 22: Farmstead and Buildings, Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Three buildings in a row with sven poeple in photograph, three of them on a horse-drawn buggy.
Other Information: farm
Physical Description: Picture Postcard
Item 23: Building Farmstead, North-East Iowa, Unidentified Locale, circa 1905Add to your cart.
Possible dugout in background, women standing and holding child in front of log cabin.
Other Information: children, farm, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 24: Unidentified HouseAdd to your cart.
House in the Victorian Queen Anne-Italiante style. Large smokestack in the distance.
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 25: Unidentified House and GatheringAdd to your cart.
Six horse drawn carriages and women standing in front of log cabin. Rural scenery in background.
Other Information: farm, home, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 26: Stage Designed Like Front PorchAdd to your cart.
Stage designed as an American front porch,.
Other Information: event
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 27: Unidentified HouseAdd to your cart.
House constructed in Victorian Gothic Style with bicycle on front porch. Hammersmith Engraving Company note on back. Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 28: Unidentified House with People in FrontAdd to your cart.
Large two story home with seven people gathered in front. Other house in left background.
Other Information: home, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 29: "Cedar Hill" HouseAdd to your cart.
Large home pictured with "Cedar Hill" printed beneath.
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 30: Interior of Irene Buhk homeAdd to your cart.
Photograph of living/sitting room with reading lamp and reclined chair.
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 31: Unidentified Home Interior, Sitting/Living RoomAdd to your cart.
Photograph of sitting/licing room with large portrait of Jesus adove a writing desk. Windows on either side of desk.
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 32: Unidentified Home Interior, Music/Parlor RoomAdd to your cart.
Music parlor room with large piano and fiddle towards bottom right.
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Picture Postcard
Item 33: "Kvilheim" Cabin with Family In Front, Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Tools hanging on side of cabin, family of four pose for picture.
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 34: Colorized "Kvilheim" Cabin Photograph, Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Photograph of Kvilheim cabin in winter scene and colorized. Tools adorn front of cabin.
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 35: Josephine Home for the Aged, Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Exterior of home depicted
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 36: Orphange with Children Gathered Outside, Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Children of non-European decent gathered outside orphange. European woman in white dress and hat stands to left.
Other Information: children, home, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 37: Saint Augustine Station House, Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 38: Taipingtien Station, Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Woman and man standing outfront. Three large doors on first floor of building and second floor balcony
Other Information: business, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 39: Professional Building on Town Street, Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Writing beneath photo and on back reads"Skolens förste musiklokale, pikereleser, m.m."
Other Information: business
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 40: Seminary Building in "F.D.", Unidentified Locale, 1915Add to your cart.
writing on back reads: Seminariet F.D. bygget in 1915 ved Halverson 80 [illegible] 52 fot budt"
Other Information: church, school
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 41: Block House, Fort Brady, Soo Mich, 1850Add to your cart.
Drawing of Block House and Fort Brady. "Copied from the original pencil drawing in possession of Judge Steer by permission Francis Wset"
Other Information: landmark
Physical Description: Picture Postcard
Item 42: Group of Wooden Buildings, Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Wooden buildings with man wearing pith helmet sitting on step. Illegible writing on back of photograph
Other Information: landmark
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 43: Lake "Eagles Point", Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Photograph of shoreline with tree covered bluff in background.
Other Information: nature
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 44: Park Scene, People Looking Over Fence, Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Other Information: landmark, people
Physical Description: Picture Postcard
Item 45: River View, Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Photograph of river valley over looking rural farmland
Other Information: farm, nature
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 46: Sunset Picture Postcards, Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
three picture postcards of sun-setting over body of water.
Other Information: nature
Physical Description: Picture Postcard
Item 47: Family of Four Posing In Front of Home, circa 1900Add to your cart.
One child is standing on stool while the other is to the right of the mother.
Other Information: children, home, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 48: Unidentified HomeAdd to your cart.
Trees growing right next to home. Roof is tiled.
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Photographic Print

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