The Papers of Hamlet Peterson, 1889-1973 | Luther College Archives

Collection Overview

Title: The Papers of Hamlet Peterson, 1889-1973Add to your cart.

ID: LCA/RG15/Peterson, H

Primary Creator: Peterson, Hamlet

Extent: 7.4 Linear Feet. More info below.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Documentation consists of correspondence; varsity sports records; graduate school notes/papers; papers regarding physical education and varsity sports; speeches; notes on games/plays; manuscript of radio skits; textbooks; family history; newspaper clippings.

Biographical Note

Graduated from Luther College, 1922; received his master of arts from the University of Iowa, 1931; taught physical education and Latin at Luther College directly after graduation from Luther; retired 1967.

Administrative Information

Repository: Luther College Archives

Alternate Extent Statement: 11 boxes

Use Restrictions: Though we may hold the property rights, Luther College Archives does not hold the copyrights for all materials. Individuals may use materials for non-commercial, private use, but commercial users must secure permissions from the copyright holders and/or Luther College Archives to reproduce, publish, or quote protected materials and photographs. For more information about the Luther College copyright and fair use policy, please visit https://www.luther.edu/library/copyright

Preferred Citation: Cite unpublished materials: Hamlet Peterson Papers, RG15 Manuscripts, Luther College Archives, Decorah, Iowa

Finding Aid Revision History:

6/15/24: Abby Bates updated copyright policy link.

11/25/19: EC updated the preferred citation.


Box and Folder Listing


Browse by Box:

[Box 1: Correspondence, 1889-1975],
[Box 2: Notes & Correspondence, 1918-1971],
[Box 3: Correspondence, 1901-1974],
[Box 4: Correspondence, 1944-1973],
[Box 5: Texts and Scripts, 1952-1967],
[Box 6: Notes, n.d.],
[Box 7: Graduate School Notes, n.d.],
[Box 8],
[Box 9],
[Box 10: Varsity Team Photographs, 1929-1954],
[Box 11: 1884-1969, n.d.],
[All]

Box 1: Correspondence, 1889-1975Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Inventory Processing Sheets, 1976Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Correspondence and Certificates, 1889-1972Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Correspondence, 1938-1963Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Correspondence, 1961-1972, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 5: Correspondence, 1927-1935Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Correspondence, 1935-1936Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Correspondence, 1936-1949Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Correspondence, 1954-1962Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Correspondence, 1963-1965Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Correspondence, 1965-1966Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Correspondence, 1966-1967Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Correspondence, 1967-1972Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Notes for Speeches, 1937-1963Add to your cart.
Folder 14: Notes for Speeches, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 15: Notes for Speeches, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 16: Receipts, Tax Forms, and Official Documents, 1935-1967Add to your cart.
Folder 17: Correspondence, Awards, Newspaper Clippings, and Programs, 1958-1975Add to your cart.
Folder 18: Correspondence, Newspaper Clippings, and Photographs, 1968-1969Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Notes, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 20: Societies Papers and Tour, 1956-1958, 1967, 1969Add to your cart.
Folder 21: Correspondence and School Papers, 1938-1973Add to your cart.
Folder 22: Correspondence, 1969Add to your cart.
Folder 23: Notebook of O. A. Tingelstad, 8 October 1897Add to your cart.
Folder 24: Correspondence and Reports, 1970, 1972Add to your cart.
Folder 25: Correspondence, Expense Sheet, and Plans for Field House, 1957-1966Add to your cart.
Folder 26: Correspondence, Program, and Newspaper Clipping, 1962-1972Add to your cart.
Folder 27: Correspondence, Newspaper Clippings, and Luther College Athletic Club Constitution and Minutes, 1921-1935, 1963, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 28: Manuscript Parts, Correspondence, and Advertisements, 1972-1973, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 29: Collection of Football Plays, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 30: Correspondence, Notes, and Papers on Football, 1933-1970Add to your cart.
Folder 31: Collection of Football Plays, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 32: Football Scouting Book, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 33: The Triple Threat (Football), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 34: Collection of Basketball Plays, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 35: Collection of Basketball Plays, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 36: Luther College Basketball Rosters, 1959-1966Add to your cart.
Folder 37: Basketball Practice Schedules and News Release, 1959-1966Add to your cart.
Folder 38: Correspondence and Officials Lists, 1957-1959Add to your cart.
Folder 39: Luther College Basketball Statistics, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 40: Luther College Scouting Statistics for Basketball, 1959-1963Add to your cart.
Folder 41: Luther College Scouting Statistics for Basketball, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 42: Basketball Tournaments and Games, 1956-1964Add to your cart.
Folder 43: Notes on Basketball Games and Practice Sessions, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 44: Lists, Schedules, and Papers about Basketball, 1935-1972Add to your cart.
Folder 45: Luther College Baseball Schedule, Practice Evaluation Sheets, and Statistic Sheets, 1958-1967Add to your cart.
Folder 46: Correspondence, Officials, and Eligibility Papers, 1958-1965, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 47: Resolution of Appointment as Professor Emeritus, 1967Add to your cart.
Box 2: Notes & Correspondence, 1918-1971Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Physical Education Class Tests, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: Physical Education Class Tests and Honor System Pledge Form, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 3: Orientation Lecture, Comprehensive Examinations, Teaching Notes, Roll Call Sheets, and Class Record for Physical Education, 1931-1966Add to your cart.
Folder 4: World War I Special Orders no. 118, no. 17, Officer's Record Book, Names and Home Addresses of Officers and Men of Company "H", and a Notebook, 1918-1919Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Speeches and Notes, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: Speeches, 1922-1962Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Correspondence, 1942-1944Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Minnesota State High School Basketball Tournaments, 1953-1959Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Minutes of the N. L. C. A. Academy Conference, 1922-1931Add to your cart.
Folder 10: "Co-recreation" for the Elementary, Junior, Senior High School, and College, 1938Add to your cart.
Folder 11: An Analysis of the Physical Education and Athletic Practices and Policies of Private and Church Related Colleges of Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois, The Big Seven Systems Master Course, and The Register and Tribune's Basketball Coaching School, 27-28 December 1935, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 12: Physical Education Class Lectures, Notes, and Papers, 1957, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 13: Physical Education Class Lectures, Notes, and Papers, 1941, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 14: Physical Education Class Lectures, Notes, and Papers, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 15: Physical Education Class Lectures, Notes, and Papers, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 16: Physical Education Class Lectures, Notes, and Papers, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 17: Physical Education Class Lectures, Notes, and Papers, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 18: Physical Education Curriculum Resources, 1942, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 19: Correspondence, Official Papers, and Tournament Information, 1955-1971Add to your cart.
Folder 20: Minutes, Constitutions, and Rules of the IIAC, 1935-1958Add to your cart.
Folder 21: Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conferences Correspondence, Agendas, and Constitution Revisions, 1958-1963Add to your cart.
Folder 22: Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conferences, Correspondence, and Official Papers, 1963-1965Add to your cart.
Folder 23: The Iowa Conference Story, by J. E. (Buck) Turnbull, 1961Add to your cart.
Folder 24: Iowa Chapter of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Booklet, and Official Handbook NAIA, 1957-1959Add to your cart.
Folder 25: Special Report: NCAA, and The Bulletin: National Association of Basketball Coaches, 1960, 1964Add to your cart.
Folder 26: Fourth Annual National Wrestling Tournament Program and List of Champions, Official NAIA Records Book, 1961Add to your cart.
Folder 27: NAIA 25th Championship Tournament and Official Records Book, 1962Add to your cart.
Folder 28: Correspondence, Minutes, and Official Papers, 1957-1959Add to your cart.
Folder 29: Correspondence, Reports, and NAIA Official Papers, 1959-1961, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 30: Press Books, 1960-1965Add to your cart.
Folder 31: Correspondence, 1915-1929Add to your cart.
Folder 32: Correspondence, 1929-1932Add to your cart.
Folder 33: Correspondence, 1932-1942Add to your cart.
Folder 34: Correspondence, January-September 1943Add to your cart.
Folder 35: Correspondence, October 1943- June 1944Add to your cart.
Box 3: Correspondence, 1901-1974Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Correspondence, Official Papers, and Personal Papers, 1901-1967Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Luther College "L" Club Papers, and Hamlet's translation of O. J. Bredas version of the Kensington Runestone story, 1905-1972Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Correspondence, Certificates, and Citation, 1960, 1968, 1972, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 4: Luther College Alumni Directory and Notes, 1961-1972Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Programs, Correspondence, Photographs, and Sketches, 1918-1974Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Correspondence, 1958, 1968, undatedAdd to your cart.
Box 4: Correspondence, 1944-1973Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Correspondence, July-December 1944Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Correspondence, January-May 1945Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Correspondence, May 1945- March 1948Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Correspondence, January-October 1949Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Correspondence, October-November 1949Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Correspondence, November-December 1949Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Correspondence, Jan-50Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Correspondence, January-February 1950Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Correspondence, February-April 1950Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Correspondence, April-June 1950Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Correspondence, June 1950- May 1951Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Correspondence, May 1951- December 1952Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Correspondence, January 1953- December 1955Add to your cart.
Folder 14: Correspondence, January-March 1956Add to your cart.
Folder 15: Correspondence, March-October 1956Add to your cart.
Folder 16: Correspondence, October-December 1956Add to your cart.
Folder 17: Correspondence, January-October 1957Add to your cart.
Folder 18: Correspondence, January-March 1958Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Correspondence, March-October 1958Add to your cart.
Folder 20: Correspondence, October 1958- March 1959Add to your cart.
Folder 21: Correspondence, March-December 1959Add to your cart.
Folder 22: Correspondence, January-December 1960Add to your cart.
Folder 23: Correspondence, January-September 1961Add to your cart.
Folder 24: Correspondence, September-December 1961Add to your cart.
Folder 25: Correspondence, January-March 1962Add to your cart.
Folder 26: Correspondence, March-September 1962Add to your cart.
Folder 27: Correspondence, September-December 1962Add to your cart.
Folder 28: Correspondence, January-September 1963Add to your cart.
Folder 29: Correspondence, September-December 1963Add to your cart.
Folder 30: Correspondence, January-October 1964Add to your cart.
Folder 31: Correspondence, November 1964- January 1965Add to your cart.
Folder 32: Correspondence, February 1965Add to your cart.
Folder 33: Correspondence, February-March 1965Add to your cart.
Folder 34: Correspondence, March 1965Add to your cart.
Folder 35: Correspondence, April-October 1965Add to your cart.
Folder 36: Correspondence, February 1965- October 1966Add to your cart.
Folder 37: Correspondence, October 1966- March 1967Add to your cart.
Folder 38: Correspondence, March-September 1967Add to your cart.
Folder 39: Correspondence, September 1967- April 1968Add to your cart.
Folder 40: Correspondence, April 1968- December 1969Add to your cart.
Folder 41: Correspondence, March 1970- June 1973Add to your cart.
Folder 42: Contracts for Games with Other Schools, 1923-1965Add to your cart.
Folder 43: Athletic Budget, Requistions, and Food Service Billings, 1948-1968Add to your cart.
Folder 44: Notes on Games and Plays, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 45: Notes on Games and Plays, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 46: Notes on Games and Plays, undatedAdd to your cart.
Box 5: Texts and Scripts, 1952-1967Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Textbooks with note inserts used by Hamlet E. Peterson, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: Textbooks with note inserts used by Hamlet E. Peterson, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 3: Albert H. Peterson (1869-1931) Family History, 1970Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Newspaper Clippings, 1952-1967Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Radio Scripts Performed by Girl Scouts on KWLC, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: Radio Scripts Performed by Girl Scouts on KWLC, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 7: Radio Scripts, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 8: Manuscript for Noble Norsemen (1st Typewritten Copy), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 9: Manuscript for Noble Norsemen (2nd Typewritten Copy), undatedAdd to your cart.
Box 6: Notes, n.d.Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Notes on Plays and Games, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: Notes on Plays and Games, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 3: Notes on Plays and Games, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 4: Notes on Plays and Games, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 5: Telegrams, Correspondence, Tickets, and Notes, 1949-1969, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: Graduate School Notebook, undatedAdd to your cart.
Box 7: Graduate School Notes, n.d.Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Notebook- Graduate School, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: Thesis: "Physical Education in the Iowa Conference Colleges" Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts; Graduate College of the State University of Iowa, Aug-31Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Graduate School Notebook, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 4: Papers and Tests for Graduate School, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 5: Physical Education Lesson Plan and Class Notes for Graduate Study, 24 July 1935, undatedAdd to your cart.
Box 8Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Collection of Notes on Baseball Games and for Practice Sessions, and Poster for Baseball Practice, 1967, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: Baseball Budget, Expenditures, and Luther College Athletics: Eligibility Rules and Policies, 1955-1968, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 3: Correspondence, Cross Country Track Contract and Schedule, and Spring Sports Schedule: Parson College, 1957-1964Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Official Track Papers and Notes, 1935-1966Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Correspondence and Tennis Papers, 1963-1964Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Correspondence, Physical Education for Women, Questionaire, and Reports, 1941-1964Add to your cart.
Box 9Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Hamlet Peterson Funeral, 1973Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Graduate School Notes and Papers, 1956Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Graduate School Notes and Papers, 1937-1938Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Graduate School Notes and Papers, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 5: Graduate School Notes and Papers, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: Graduate School Notes and Papers, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 7: Graduate School Notes and Papers, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 8: Graduate School Notes and Papers, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 9: Memorial Service, 1973Add to your cart.
Box 10: Varsity Team Photographs, 1929-1954Add to your cart.
Item 1: Basketball Team Photograph, 1929-1930Add to your cart.
Item 2: Basketball Team Photograph, 1930-1931Add to your cart.
Item 3: Basketball Team Photograph, 1931-1932Add to your cart.
Item 4: Basketball Team Photograph, 1936-1937Add to your cart.
Item 5: Basketball Team Photograph, 1943Add to your cart.
Item 6: Basketball Team Photograph, 1947-1948Add to your cart.
Item 7: Basketball Team Photograph, 1948-1949Add to your cart.
Item 8: Basketball Team Photograph, 1951-1952Add to your cart.
Item 9: Basketball Team Photograph, 1954Add to your cart.
Item 10: Football Team Photograph, 1932Add to your cart.
Item 11: Football Team Photograph, 1932Add to your cart.
Item 12: Football Team Photograph, 1935Add to your cart.
Item 13: Football Team Photograph, 1938Add to your cart.
Item 14: Football Team Photograph, 1941Add to your cart.
Item 15: Rugby Football Team Photograph, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 16: Baseball Team Photograph, 1937Add to your cart.
Item 17: Track Relay Team, 1932-1933Add to your cart.
Box 11: 1884-1969, n.d.Add to your cart.
Contains materials from accession 2017-045.
Folder 1: Postcard from Orlando Qualley, 1924Add to your cart.
Postcard to Coach Peterson written by Orlando Qualley while traveling to an archaeological dig in Egypt.
Folder 2: Amphictyonian, 1915Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Amphictyonian, 1917Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Commencement Programs, 1961-1969Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Diamond Jubilee, 1936-1961Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Homecoming/Tournament Programs, 1964-1968Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Family and Football, 1894-1940Add to your cart.

Browse by Box:

[Box 1: Correspondence, 1889-1975],
[Box 2: Notes & Correspondence, 1918-1971],
[Box 3: Correspondence, 1901-1974],
[Box 4: Correspondence, 1944-1973],
[Box 5: Texts and Scripts, 1952-1967],
[Box 6: Notes, n.d.],
[Box 7: Graduate School Notes, n.d.],
[Box 8],
[Box 9],
[Box 10: Varsity Team Photographs, 1929-1954],
[Box 11: 1884-1969, n.d.],
[All]