The Papers of the Sperati Family, 1888-1952 | Luther College Archives

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Series 1: Correspondence

Box 1: Correspondence, 1888-1890

Folder 1: Correspondence from Carlo Sperati to Emma Hoffoss, 1887

Folder 2: Correspondence from Carlo Sperati to Emma Hoffoss, 1888

Folder 3: Correspondence from Carlo Sperati to Emma Hoffoss, 1888

Folder 4: Correspondence from Carlo Sperati to Emma Hoffoss, 1888

Folder 5: Correspondence from Carlo Sperati to Emma Hoffoss, 1889

Folder 6: Graduation program from Emma Hoffoss (Sperati), 1888

Folder 7: Emma Hoffoss autograph book, 1886-1889

Box 2: Correspondence, 1888-1891

Folder 1: Correspondence from Carlo Sperati to Emma Hoffoss, 1889

Folder 2: Correspondence from Carlo Sperati to Emma Hoffoss, 1891

Folder 3: Correspondence from Carlo Sperati to Emma Hoffoss, 1891

Folder 4: Letters from Emma Hoffoss to Carlo A. Sperati, 1887

Folder 5: Correspondence to Carlo Sperati from Emma Hoffoss, 1888

Folder 6: Correspondence to Carlo Sperati from Emma Hoffoss, 1888

Box 3: Correspondence, 1887-1890

Folder 1: Letters from Emma Hoffoss to Carlo Sperati, 1889

Folder 2: Letters from Emma Hoffoss to Carlo Sperati, 1889

Folder 3: Correspondence from Emma Hoffoss to Carlo Sperati, 1889

Folder 4: Correspondence from Emma Hoffoss to Carlo Sperati, 1890

Folder 5: Correspondence from Emma Hoffoss to Carlo Sperati, 1890

Folder 6: Correspondence to Carlo Sperati from Emma Hoffoss, 1888

Box 4: Correspondence, 1882-1891

Folder 1: Correspondence to Carlo Sperati from Emma Hoffoss, 1890

Folder 2: Correspondence from Emma Hoffoss to Carlo Sperati, 1891

Folder 3: Correspondence from Emma Hoffoss to Carlo Sperati, 1891

Folder 4: Correspondence to Carlo Sperati from his Sister Anna Jager and her Husband and Children, 1878-1939

Folder 5: Correspondence to Carlo Sperati from his Brother Emanual and his Wife Fanny, 1878-1884

Folder 6: Correspondence to Carlo Sperati from his Mother and Father (Paolo and Mathilde), 1878-1886

Folder 7: Correspondence to Carlo Sperati from Angelo, Robert, and Pauline (Brothers and Sister), 1878-1885

Folder 8: Correspondence to Carlo Sperati from Thu. K. Bjorn, 1878-1886

Folder 9: Correspondence to Carlo Sperati from Tante Thora and Friends A. Bryn and H. Lee, undated

Folder 10: Correspondence to Carlo Sperati from Friends, 1882-1884

Folder 11: Correspondence to Carlo Sperati from Cecilie and Carl Aarburg (Sister and Brother in Law), 1883-1887

Folder 12: Correspondence, undated

Folder 13: Program and Postcard, 1921, 1929

Folder 14: Marriage announcement of Emma Camilla Sperati to Carl Strom, 1931

Folder 15: 'Seamen's Pastor' letter to Carlo Sperati from Carsten Hansteen, translated by J.R. Christianson, 1885

Series 2: At Luther College

Box 5: Day Books, 1893-1936

Folder 1: Carlo A. Sperati Daybook, 1893-1894

Folder 2: Carlo A. Sperati Daybook, 1897-1898

Folder 3: Carlo A. Sperati Daybook, 1898-1899

Folder 4: Carlo A. Sperati Daybook, 1899-1908

Folder 5: Carlo A. Sperati Daybook, 1911-1912

Folder 6: Carlo A. Sperati Daybook, 1917

Folder 7: Carlo Sperati Daily Expense Record, 1917

Folder 8: Sigvald Sperati Diary/Daybook, 1936

Box 6: 1931-1952

Folder 1: Concert Programs - Carlo A. Sperati, 1887-1936

Folder 2: Clippings from the 1925 L.C. Concert Band Tour Collected by Kelmar N. Roe, 1925

Folder 3: Carlo Sperati Sermons Given While he was Faculty of Luther College, undated

Box 10

Item 2: Napkin with Signatures, 1904

Series 3: Awards, Honors, and Memorials

Box 6

Folder 4: Memorials to and Wills of Carlo A. and Emma Hoffoss Sperati, 1940-1950

Folder 5: Award for Distiguished Service to Carlo A. Sperati by the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, 1931

Folder 6: Speech Given in Honor of Carlo A. Sperati by Th. Sigveland, 1936

Folder 7: Sperati Memorial and Award, 1961

Box 10

Item 1: Degree from Luther Seminary, 1891

Series 4: Scrapbooks

Box 8: Scrapbook of Letters, 1940-1941

Folder 1: Program, 1941

Item 1: Book of Letters and Greetings, undated

Box 14: Photograph Album, 1889

Accession 2016-064.

Item 1: Photograph Album, 1889

Photograph album belonging to Carlo Sperati and Emma Hoffoss Sperati, originally passed down from the Hoffoss family.

Series 5: Emma Hoffoss Sperati Poetry

Box 7: Emma Hoffoss Sperati Poetry, 1920-1940

Folder 1: Emma Hoffoss Sperati's Letter to Ragnhild Noer, 1939

Folder 2: Emma Hoffoss Sperati Poems (Untyped and Mounted), 1930-1940

Folder 3: Emma Hoffoss Sperati Poems (Untyped), 1920-1940

Folder 4: Emma Hoffoss Sperati Poems (Typed), 1930-1940

Series 6: Realia

Box 9: Tin Cookie Box and Books, undated

Item 1: Carlo Sperati's Personal Bible, 1895

Item 2: Carlo Sperati - The Messiah, 1912

Item 3: Tin Cookie Box, undated

Box 11: Realia

Folder 1: "Hymn of Praise A Sacred Cantata" by Felix Mendelssohn, undated

Folder 2: "G. Schirmer's Collection of Oratorios and Cantatas: The Daughter of Jairus", undated

Folder 3: Domkirkeni Trondhiem, 28 May 1914

Folder 4: The Holy City by A. R. Gaul, undated

Folder 5: Elijah an Oratoria by Felix Mendelssohn, undated

Folder 6: 24 Geiftliche Eieder by Johann Sebastian Bach, 1922

Folder 7: "The Seven Last Words of Christ for Soli, Chorus, and Orchestra" by TH. Dubois, 1899

Folder 8: The Seasons, undated

Folder 9: "G. Schirmer's Collection of Oratorios and Cantatas: Ruth", undated

Folder 10: The Erl-King's Daughter by Niels W. Gade, undated

Folder 11: Norges Melodier, undated

Folder 12: "G. Schirmer's Collection of Oratorios and Cantatas: The Creation", undated

Box 12: Music Scores

Folder 1: "Cantata" by John Dahle for the Sixtieth Anniversary of Luther College, 14 October 1921

Folder 2: "The Passion According to St. Matthew" by Johann Sebastian Bach, 28 October 1916

Folder 3: "The Crucifixion: A Meditation on the Sacred Passion of the Holy Redeemer" by John Stainer, undated

Folder 4: "The Seven Last Words of Christ" by TH. Dubois, 14 May 1942

Folder 5: "The Passion According to St. Matthew" by Johann Sebastian Bach, Nov. 1927

Folder 6: "The Lay of the Bell" by Max Bruch, undated

Folder 7: "The Passion" Set to Music by J. Haydn, undated

Folder 8: Mass in B Minor by J. S. Bach, 1 October 1899

Folder 9: Hymn of Praise by Felix Mendelssohn, undated

Folder 10: Missa Solemnis in D by Beethoven, 1905

Folder 11: Program for "The Passion According to St. Matthew" by J.S. Bach, 28 April 1963

Folder 12: Sheet Music owned by Sperati Family, undated

Box 13: Fauna Scrapbook, 1911

Folder 1: Fauna Scrapbook, 1 June 1911