The Papers of Linka (Caroline Keyser) Preus, 1842-1880 | Luther College Archives

Collection Overview

Title: The Papers of Linka (Caroline Keyser) Preus, 1842-1880Add to your cart.

ID: LCA/RG15/Preus, L

Primary Creator: Preus, Linka (1829-1880)

Extent: 14.1 Linear Feet. More info below.

Languages: Norwegian

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Documentation consists of correspondence; photocopies of drawings; loose sketches; other drawings.

Biographical Note

Linka (Caroling Dorothea Margrethe) was born in Kristiansand, Norway July 2, 1829, daughter of Christian Nicolai Keyser and wife Agnes Louise Carlsen. Educated by private tutors; married Herman Amberg Preus May 5, 1851; immigrated to America, 1851; died September 19, 1880.

Administrative Information

Repository: Luther College Archives

Alternate Extent Statement: 14 boxes

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Preferred Citation: Cite unpublished materials: Linka (Caroline Keyser) Preus Papers, RG15 Manuscripts, Luther College Archives, Decorah, Iowa

Finding Aid Revision History: 11/25/19: EC updated the preferred citation.


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[Series 1: Correspondence],
[Series 2: Original and Photographs of Linka's Sketches, 1850-1984],
[Series 3: Illustrations and Maps, 1952],
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Series 1: CorrespondenceAdd to your cart.
Box 1: Correspondence, 1842-1850Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Inventory Processing Sheets, 1970Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Correspondence, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 3: Correspondence, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 4: Correspondence, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 5: Correspondence, 1842-1844Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Correspondence, 1845Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Correspondence, 1846Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Correspondence, 1847Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Correspondence, 1848Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Correspondence, 1849Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Correspondence, 1850Add to your cart.
Box 2: Correspondence, 1851-1866Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Correspondence, 1851Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Correspondence, 1852Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Correspondence, 1853Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Correspondence, 1854-1856Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Correspondence, 1857-1859Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Correspondence, 1860-1861Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Correspondence, 1862Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Correspondence, 1863Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Correspondence, 1864Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Correspondence, 1865Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Correspondence, 1866Add to your cart.
Box 3: Correspondence, 1867-1880Add to your cart.
Item 1: Linka's Diary: Letters Supplementary, 1856-1876Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Correspondence, 1867Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Correspondence, 1868-1871Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Correspondence, 1872Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Correspondence, 1872Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Correspondence, 1873Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Correspondence, 1874Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Correspondence, 1875Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Correspondence, 1876Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Correspondence, 1877Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Correspondence, 1878Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Correspondence, 1879-1880Add to your cart.
Series 2: Original and Photographs of Linka's Sketches, 1850-1984Add to your cart.
Box 1: Copy Negatives of Black and White Prints of Linka Preus' Sketchbooks and Folio, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 1: Copy Negatives of Black and White Prints of Linka Preus' Sketchbooks and Folio, undatedAdd to your cart.
Box 2: Photocopies of DrawingsAdd to your cart.
Folder 1: Photocopies of Drawings with Notes, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: Photocopies of Drawings with Notes, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 3: Letters and Photocopies of Drawings, 1984, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 4: Photocopies of Drawing, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 5: Gracia Grindal on Linka's Sketch Books, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: Gracia Grindal's Commentary on Linka's sketch Book, undatedAdd to your cart.
Box 3: Photographs of Sketches, 1867-1870Add to your cart.
Item 1: Sketch 41: (At Sognsvand) Christiania, July 1867Add to your cart.
Item 2: Sketch 42: (Gjellebakk is the heart of Paradise hills) On the new way, 2 August 1867Add to your cart.
Item 3: Sketch 43: (Syllinge Church.), August 1867Add to your cart.
Item 4: Sketch 44: Holdsford. Sylling Church., August 1867Add to your cart.
Item 5: Sketch 45: (An evening scene at Major Stua.), July 1867Add to your cart.
Item 6: Sketch 46, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 7: Sketch 47: The portals of oak where 3,000 people ate dinner, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 8: Sketch 48: Scene from the Living Room, 2 February 1868Add to your cart.
Item 9: Scene, 14 February 1868Add to your cart.
Item 10: Sketch 49: A ride in the sleigh with the pastors' wives and pastors and a single woman and Christie., 2 February 1869Add to your cart.
Item 11: Sketch 50: A wagon with ladies and other people., 2 September 1869Add to your cart.
Item 12: Sketch 51: Keyserland., August 1867, February 1868Add to your cart.
Item 13: Sketch 52: Evening scene, 11 July 1868Add to your cart.
Item 14: Sketch 53: Kalla's Piano, December 1867Add to your cart.
Item 15: Sketch 54, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 16: Sketch 55: A wagon with wooden wheels., undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 17: Sketch 56: Blaaen drives the carriage with Kalla near Borgen., June-August 1867Add to your cart.
Item 18: Sketch 57, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 19: Sketch 58: Old Anne Langemoe stands in front of the boiling coffee., 2 September 1869Add to your cart.
Item 20: Sketch 59: tools, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 21: Sketch 60: Dunnings Springs, Iowa, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 22: Sketch 61: the three seated buggy of Dr. Magelsson with all the children., 3 June 1870Add to your cart.
Item 23: Sketch 62: Back and front view of trolls, undatedAdd to your cart.
Box 4: Complete Set of Photographs of Loaned Sketchbook, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 1: Sketch 91, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 2: Sketch 91 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 3: Sketch 92, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 4: Sketch 92 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 5: Sketch 93, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 6: Sketch 93 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 7: Sketch 94, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 8: Sketch 94 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 9: Sketch 95, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 10: Sketch 95 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 11: Sketch 96, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 12: Sketch 96 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 13: Sketch 97: To the Mississippien Devils by the Ladies of Lousiana, 19 April 1862Add to your cart.
Item 14: Sketch 97 duplicate, 19 April 1862Add to your cart.
Item 15: Sketch 98, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 16: Sketch 98 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 17: Sketch 99, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 18: Sketch 99 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 19: Sketch 100 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 20: Sketch 101, 27 July 1861Add to your cart.
Item 21: Sketch 101 duplicate, 27 July 1861Add to your cart.
Item 22: Sketch 102 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 23: Sketch 103, 1862Add to your cart.
Item 24: Sketch 103 duplicate, 1862Add to your cart.
Item 25: Sketch 104, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 26: Sketch 104 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 27: Sketch 105, 2 October 1860Add to your cart.
Item 28: Sketch 105 duplicate, 2 October 1860Add to your cart.
Item 29: Sketch 106, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 30: Sketch 106 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 31: Sketch 107: A Sunday Morning, 20 March 1863Add to your cart.
Item 32: Sketch 107 duplicate, 20 March 1863Add to your cart.
Item 33: Sketch 108, 1861Add to your cart.
Item 34: Sketch 108 duplicate, 1861Add to your cart.
Item 35: Sketch 109 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 36: Sketch 110, 22 March 1863Add to your cart.
Item 37: Sketch 110 duplicate, 22 March 1863Add to your cart.
Item 38: Sketch 111: Our parsonage from 1852-1856, 1852-1856Add to your cart.
Item 39: Sketch 111 duplicate, 1852-1856Add to your cart.
Item 40: Sketch 112, 5 September 1864Add to your cart.
Item 41: Sketch 112 duplicate, 5 September 1864Add to your cart.
Item 42: Sketch 113, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 43: Sketch 113 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 44: Sketch 114, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 45: Sketch 114 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 46: Sketch 115, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 47: Sketch 115 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 48: Sketch 116, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 49: Sketch 116 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Box 5: Photographs of Sketches, 1865-1870Add to your cart.
Item 1: Sketch 1, 1867Add to your cart.
Item 2: Sketch 2, 28 August 1865Add to your cart.
Item 3: Sketch 3: Goat Island in between Horse Shoe Falls and the American Falls., August 1865Add to your cart.
Item 4: Sketch 4: Horseshoe Falls and Table Rock from the Canadian Side, 28 August 1865Add to your cart.
Item 5: Sketch 5: Terrapin Tower as it overlooks the part of Niagara known as Horse Shoe Falls., 28 August 1865Add to your cart.
Item 6: Sketch 6: Horse Shoe Fall, Niagara, 28 August 1865Add to your cart.
Item 7: Sketch 7: That German Cabin at Good Harbour, Michigan., August 1865Add to your cart.
Item 8: Sketch 8: These two Quakers in Chicago wait for the train, and eat their dinner in the waiting room in the depot., October 1867Add to your cart.
Item 9: Sketch 9: From Larsen's Guest Room No. 8 at Luther College Decorah, Iowa., October 1864Add to your cart.
Item 10: Sketch 10: The Hjort Parsonage at Paint Creek., August 1866Add to your cart.
Item 11: Sketch 11: Hjort Parsonage, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 12: Sketch 12: Spring Prairie Parsonge in the 1870's, 1870sAdd to your cart.
Item 13: Sketch 13: Linka, Dulitz, and Herman on Goat Island., undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 14: Sketch 14: Vettakollen from Borrestuen. Christiania, 29 July 1867Add to your cart.
Item 15: Sketch 15: The hill in front of Lomses' watermain from Sognsvandet., 29 July 1867Add to your cart.
Item 16: Sketch 16: A view of the tables at the dedication., undatedAdd to your cart.
Includes image of Laur. Larsen at the dedication of the Main Building at Luther College.
Item 17: Sketch 17: Sara (Siri) Larsen's engagement to pastor Peer Reque, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 18: Sketch 18: We are leaving Rueland in a cart, with Hermann, Rueland, and Dulitz, 26 August 1865Add to your cart.
Item 19: Sketch 19: Humledalen on Kragskoven in Norway., 2 September 1867Add to your cart.
Item 20: Sketch 20: Looking out at Tyrefjord, Ringeriket, 2 September 1867Add to your cart.
Item 21: Sketch 21: A market in New York. Fulton Market., 1865Add to your cart.
Item 22: Sketch 22: At Børrestuen below the fields., 7 July 1867Add to your cart.
Item 23: Sketch 24: Paula and the Children. Halden., March 1867Add to your cart.
Item 24: Sketch 24 duplicate, March 1867Add to your cart.
Item 25: Sketch 25: unfinished, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 26: Sketch 26: An evening walk to Keyserlund is undertaken., July-August 1867Add to your cart.
Item 27: Sketch 27: Cherry Picking at Uncles in Keyserlund, 1867Add to your cart.
Item 28: Sketch 28: Coffee storehouse at Chr. Brinks and Rosa, September 1867Add to your cart.
Item 29: Sketch 29: An evening party at Hanschen and Bang's, September 1867Add to your cart.
Item 30: Sketch 29 duplicate, September 1867Add to your cart.
Item 31: Sketch 30: A visit to Toman Namann's ship Oscar., 18 September 1867Add to your cart.
Item 34: Sketch 31: The road through the mountains., undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 33: Sketch 32: A sketch of Hanschen, Bang, Herman, Wulfsberg, and I eating and drinking chocolate on our way to Humledalen from Drammen, August 1867Add to your cart.
Item 32: Sketch 33: On the way from Drammen to Humledalen, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 35: Sketch 34: The train, 16 September 1867Add to your cart.
Item 36: Sketch 35: Christian Brinck, Hanschen, Rosa, and I near the church at Egeberg., August 1867Add to your cart.
Item 37: Sketch 36: strange man with children, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 38: Sketch 37: Moving the piano in, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 39: Sketch 38, August 1866Add to your cart.
Item 40: Sketch 39: Here is where the musicians played every day, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 41: Sketch 40: unfinished-girls with candles, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 42: Campus House Informational Brouchure, 1973Add to your cart.
Box 6: duplicate photographs of sketches, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 1: Inventory sheet, undatedAdd to your cart.
Box 7: Photographs of Sketches, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 1: Sketch 69, 1858Add to your cart.
Item 2: Sketch 69 duplicate, 1858Add to your cart.
Item 3: Sketch 70: Stub's Parsonage at Coon Prairie, 7 July 1858Add to your cart.
Item 4: Sketch 70 duplicate, 7 July 1858Add to your cart.
Item 5: Sketch 71, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 6: Sketch 71 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 7: Sketch 72, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 8: Sketch 72 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 9: Sketch 73, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 10: Sketch 73 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 11: Sketch 74, 1858Add to your cart.
Item 12: Sketch 74 duplicate, 1858Add to your cart.
Item 13: Sketch 74 small duplicate, 1858Add to your cart.
Item 14: Sketch 75, 1858Add to your cart.
Item 15: Sketch 76: The Guestroom at Koren's, 1858Add to your cart.
Item 16: Sketch 76 duplicate, 1858Add to your cart.
Item 17: Sketch 77 duplicate, 24 May 1859Add to your cart.
Item 18: Sketch 78, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 19: Sketch 78 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 20: Sketch 79: A Mississippi raft, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 21: Sketch 79 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 22: Sketch 80, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 23: Sketch 80 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 24: Sketch 81, 26 April 1859Add to your cart.
Item 25: Sketch 81 duplicate, 26 April 1859Add to your cart.
Item 26: Sketch 82, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 27: Sketch 82 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 28: Sketch 83, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 29: Sketch 83 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 30: Sketch 84: Spring Prairie Parsonage, 7 June 1859Add to your cart.
Item 31: Sketch 84 duplicate, 7 June 1859Add to your cart.
Item 32: Sketch 85, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 33: Sketch 85 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 34: Sketch 86, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 35: Sketch 86 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 36: Sketch 87, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 37: Sketch 87 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 38: Sketch 88, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 39: Sketch 88 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 40: Sketch 89, October 1859Add to your cart.
Item 41: Sketch 89 duplicate, October 1859Add to your cart.
Item 42: Sketch 90, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 43: Sketch 90 duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Box 8: Books and NegativesAdd to your cart.
Item 1: Pencil Drawings of Corline Dorothea Margrethe (Keyser) Preus Volume I, March 1982Add to your cart.
Item 2: Pencil Drawings of Corline Dorothea Margrethe (Keyser) Preus Volume II, March 1982Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Photographs of Sketches, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 3: Negative Photographs of Sketches, undatedAdd to your cart.
Box 9: Loose SketchesAdd to your cart.
Item 1: Sketch small duplicate. Uncle Nicolai among the Indians, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 2: Sketch 64 small duplicate., October 1862Add to your cart.
Item 3: Original Sketch. Uncle Nicolai among the Indians, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 4: Pencil Drawing Original, 5 panels on one side and 1 large drawing on the other. Sketch 63, 1861-1862Add to your cart.
Item 5: Sketch 63: Winter 1862 and Summer 1861, 1861-1862Add to your cart.
Item 6: Sketch 64: The wife and the governess must themselves clean the intestines at this slaughter., October 1862Add to your cart.
Item 7: Sketch 129, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 8: Small duplicate sketch, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 9: Small duplicate sketch, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 10: Small duplicate sketch, 10 March 1862Add to your cart.
Item 11: Small duplicate sketch, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 12: Small duplicate sketch, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 13: Original Small sketches., 1840, 1859Add to your cart.
Item 14: Sketch 65: Family Playing Games, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 15: Half of Sketch 65 small duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 16: Half of Sketch 65 small duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 17: Original Sketches. Sketch 66 and Unknown, 17 May 1865, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 18: Sketch 66: Oh welcome, everyone, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 19: Sketch 66 small duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 1: Sketch 75 duplicate, Sketch 68, and Sketch 67, 1865, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: Sketch 118 Original, Sketch 118 Duplicates, and Sketch 117 Duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Acquisition Information: Accession: 27:23:01
Folder 3: Sketch 119 Original, Sketch 119 Duplicates, and Unknown Original, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 4: Sketch 120 and Sketch 120 Duplicate, 1850Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Painting 121 Original and Sketch 121 Duplicates, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: Sketch 122 Original and Sketch 122 Duplicates, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 7: Sketch 123 Original and Sketch 123 Duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 8: Sketch 124 Original and Sketch 124 Duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 9: Sketch 125 Original, Sketch 125 Duplicate, Sketch 126 Original, and Sketch 126 Duplicates, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 10: Sketch 127 Original and Sketch 127 Duplicates, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 11: Sketch 128 Original and Sketch 128 Duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 12: Original Sketch, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 13: Sketch 130 Original and Sketch 130 Duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 14: Sketch 131 Original and Sketch 131 Duplicate, 4 November 1864Add to your cart.
Folder 15: Sketch 132 Original, Sketch 132 Duplicate, Sketch 140 Original, and Sketch 140 Duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 16: Sketch 133 Original and Sketch 133 Duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 17: Sketch 134 Original and Sketch 134 Duplicate, 1865Add to your cart.
Folder 18: Sketch 135 Original and Sketch 135 Duplicate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 19: Correspondence, Sketch 136, and Sketch 136 Duplicate, 27 December 1984, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 20: Sketch 137 Original, Sketch 137 Duplicates, Sketch 138 Original, and Sketch 138 Duplicates, 1886Add to your cart.
Folder 21: Sketch 139 Original and Sketch 139 Duplicates, October 1869Add to your cart.
Box 10: Sketchbook, 1865-1869Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Sketchbook of Linka's Drawings (Originals), 1865-1869Add to your cart.
Box 11: Sketchbook, 1858Add to your cart.
Item 1: Sketchbook of Drawings, 1858Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Photocopy of Linka's Sketchbook of Drawings, 1858Add to your cart.
Series 3: Illustrations and Maps, 1952Add to your cart.
Box 1: Illustrations and Maps for Linka's Diary, 1952Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Illustrations and Maps for Linka's Diary, 1952Add to your cart.

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