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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


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[Box 2],
[Box 3],
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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
Box 2Add to your cart.
Item 1: Svalgangstue, Middle to Upper Class HomeAdd to your cart.
Photograph of ruined home with didactic message below.
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 2: Unidentified Home ExteriorAdd to your cart.
Gothic style home on street corner
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 3: Farmstead, Barn, Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Photograph of Barn with two horse drawn buggies in front. Men standing/sitting in both either buggy.
Other Information: farm, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 4: Unidentified church, Back of Photo Says "J.F. Ylvisaker"Add to your cart.
Other Information: church
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 5: Unidentified ChurchAdd to your cart.
Other Information: church
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 6: Unidentified ChurchAdd to your cart.
Basic, wooden prairie church with small steeple.
Other Information: church
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 7: Unidentified Church InteriorAdd to your cart.
Mosaic of stairs above altar. Pulpit on left side of photo.
Acquisition Information: Pensacola Historical Society, Pensacola Florida
Other Information: church
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 8: Unidentified ChurchAdd to your cart.
Basic prairie church with diamond pattern on steeple roof.
Other Information: church
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 9: Unidentified Church Exterior with Crowd of MenAdd to your cart.
Brick church with group of men  gathered and looking at camera.
Acquisition Information: Pensacola Historical Society, Pensacola Florida
Other Information: church
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 10: Unidentified Medieval CathedralAdd to your cart.
Location likely in Norway, 46a on back of photograph.
Other Information: church
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 11: Unidentified Church InteriorAdd to your cart.
Large stainglass window above altar, gothic arches on either side of pews. "The East end prior ro 1935 restoration" written on back.
Other Information: church
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 12: Unidentified Church InteriorAdd to your cart.
Photo faces altar with paiting of Christ's ascension. Balconies to either side of altar.
Other Information: church
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 13: Unidentified Church ExteriorAdd to your cart.
Exterior of small stone church with mixed group of men and women standing on stairs.
Other Information: church, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 14: Unidentified FarmsteadAdd to your cart.
House, Barn, and out Buildings, on a corner of a road.
Other Information: farm
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 15: Unidentified Home Interior, HallwayAdd to your cart.
Hallway loking into drawing room, bear umbrealla stand/coat hanger.
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 16: Unidentified Home, Women OutsideAdd to your cart.
Basic two story farm house with woman standing outside.
Other Information: home, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 17: Unidentified Home, Colorized, Woman with Two ChildrenAdd to your cart.
Woman standing in front of home with two children, photograph is partially colorized.
Acquisition Information: Mrs. E Hove
Other Information: home, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 18: Unidentified Home, With Mansard Roof and Single Window DormersAdd to your cart.
Other building to right background of home.
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 19: Unidenttified FarmAdd to your cart.
Three buildings in photograph.
Other Information: farm
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 20: Unidentified Traditional Norwegian Home InteriorAdd to your cart.
Creator: H.L. Scharla Commercial Photography, New York, New York
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 21: African Man and His DwellingAdd to your cart.
Back of photograph reads: "A Malagassy Home" and "Rev. Sarkerke"
Other Information: home, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 22: Unidentified Home With Woman and Two ChildrenAdd to your cart.
Basic farmhouse with woman and two children standing in front.
Other Information: home, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 23: Chomatien Station from the North EndAdd to your cart.
Three buildings connected by a wall and a church towards back left.
Other Information: business, church
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 24: Station House in MarambarsAdd to your cart.
Large home with wrap around porch.
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 25: Sweeping Station, On A River, Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Professional building located amongst a town near to a body of water.
Other Information: business, town
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 26: Bethania College, Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Large building located next to a railroad track.
Other Information: school
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 27: First Norwegian Academy in America WoodprintAdd to your cart.
"Protestant Episcopal Mission Buildings at Green Bay".
Other Information: school
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 28: Ladies Hall, Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Two large stone buildings in University setting.
Other Information: school
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 29: Grapevine Arbor with Man and Woman in BackgroundAdd to your cart.
Classical-esque grapevine arbor with man and woman in distance.
Other Information: people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 30: Gazebo in ParkAdd to your cart.
Other Information: landmark
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 31: Downtown Parade with Marching Band, Oct 12, 1899Add to your cart.
People line both sides of steet to watch parade. Classical arch in left background with "Welcome" at top.
Other Information: even, people, town
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 32: "Dighton Rock", Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Large rock with Neolothic style drawings.
Other Information: landmark
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 33: Six Cars in Driveway with MenAdd to your cart.
Six old style cars lined in driveway with a man standing by each one.
Other Information: people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 34: Colorized "Haukaas Farm"Add to your cart.
Family of five and two horses stand by small cabin in partially colorized photo.
Other Information: children, farm, home people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Box 3Add to your cart.
Item 1: Unidentified Church ExteriorAdd to your cart.
Basic, stone prairie church.
Other Information: church
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 2: Church MissionAdd to your cart.
Crowd gathered for some performance, large church in background of picture.
Other Information: church, event, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 3: United Church SeminaryAdd to your cart.
Large classical style building with "United Church Seminary" above entry way.
Other Information: school
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 4: Unidentified Church ExteriorAdd to your cart.
Other Information: church
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 5: Forde Homestead, circa 1900Add to your cart.
Five family members gathered in field for photo. Farmstead buildings in background.
Other Information: farm
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 6: Unidentified FarmsteadAdd to your cart.
Three buildings with single horse in photograph.
Other Information: farm
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 7: Unidentified FarmsteadAdd to your cart.
Family of six standing in front of house int he distance. Photograph taken from some dstance away.
Other Information: farm
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 8: Unidentified Home, Farmstead and Picture PortraitAdd to your cart.
Old bearded man in portrait, five building farmstead and log cabin with small porch.
Other Information: farm, home, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 9: Unidentified FarmsteadAdd to your cart.
Medium sized house, with very large barn.
Other Information: farm
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 10: Unidentified HomeAdd to your cart.
Home is in arid setting with large wrap around porch.
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 11: Two Photographs of Unidentified HousesAdd to your cart.
Photograph on top represents a large more wealthy home, while the two houses in bottom photograph are smaller and in a town setting.
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Two Photographic Prints
Item 12: Large Unidentified Home with Accompanying Professional BuldingAdd to your cart.
Church in right background.
Other Information: business, church, home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 13: Unidentified Home Taken Over With IvyAdd to your cart.
Two children sit on front porch.
Other Information: children, home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 14: Unidentified HomeAdd to your cart.
Small sized stone home with old fashioned tractor next to home.
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 15: Two Unidentified Homes, Two Men StandingAdd to your cart.
Two very large homes in left and right background. In foreground two men talk with one another.
Other Information: home, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 16: Three Homes in Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Three homes depicted in wintery scene, a row of people posing for the photograph.
Other Information: home, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 17: Unidentified HomeAdd to your cart.
Large three storied home with telephone pole right out front.
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 18: Unidentified HomeAdd to your cart.
Small one storied home with bay window and small front porch.
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 19: Unidentified Abandoned Log CabinAdd to your cart.
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 20: Unidentified BuildingAdd to your cart.
Building with classical architectural features.
Other Information: business
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 21: City street with three BuildingsAdd to your cart.
Multiple cars parked on street.
Other Information: town
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 22: Unidentified Apartment BuildingAdd to your cart.
Large brick building on corner of city street.
Other Information: town
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 23: Unidentified Home With Family Posing In FrontAdd to your cart.
Family of six posing in front of house.
Other Information: children, home, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 24: Unidentified Home with Three People in FrontAdd to your cart.
Other Information: home, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 25: Unidentified Home with Family on PorchAdd to your cart.
Family of four, house is in Victorian Queen Anne style
Other Information: children, home, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 26: Unidentified Mission ChurchAdd to your cart.
Crowd of non-europeans gatherd in front of Church. Man in pith helmet stands apart.
Other Information: church, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 27: "Wild Rice Barnehjem" Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Children of home stand in single file line with the photograph of their side views.
Other Information: children, home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 28: "Eger Norwegian Lutheran Home For the Aged"Add to your cart.
(Founded by Carl Micheal Eger)
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 29: Josephine Home for the Aged, Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Other Information: home
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 30: Unidentified Library InteriorAdd to your cart.
Reading table with bookshelf behind, classical statue on the wall.
Other Information: business
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 31: "St. Paul Hospital", Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Large hospital building with rounded dome.
Other Information: business
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 32: Panoramic Photo of River with MillAdd to your cart.
Other Information: business
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 33: Unidentified School Building with Students Gathered Out FrontAdd to your cart.
Other Information: school. people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 34: Unidentified School BuildingAdd to your cart.
Drawing or Woodcut appears to be an artist's rendition.
Other Information: school
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 35: "Bruflat Academy", Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Photograph has some discoloring/damage in top left
Other Information: school
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 36: Unidentified Grouping of BuildingsAdd to your cart.
Possibly a school, children gathered around side of one of the buildings.
Other Information: children, school
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 37: "Jewell College", Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Other Information: school
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 38: "Mikkelson Hall", Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Artist's rendering of a university dormitory.
Other Information: school
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 39: Missionary School, UNidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Other Information: school
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 40: "Scandinaivan Academy", Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
Photograph of exterior with two horse drawn buggies and six people sitting on steps of the academy.
Other Information: people, school
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 41: Unidentified School BuildingAdd to your cart.
Adults gathered on front step of school with others looking out windows.
Other Information: people, school
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 42: "Silversten Hall" Unidentified LocaleAdd to your cart.
University dormitory.
Other Information: school
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 43: "Sailors in a "Norway" Float in a Parade"Add to your cart.
Other Information: event, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print
Item 44: "Truck In a Parade With People on the Back"Add to your cart.
Other Information: event, people
Physical Description: Photographic Print

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