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Brochures, catalogs, correspondence, and reports of a school founded in 1917.

Biography/History:  Founded in 1897 by Norwegians who had settled on the Northwest Side of Chicago, the Norwegian Lutheran Deaconess Home and Hospital carried on a broad community program of social work and care for youth, as well as operating a…

Brochures, constitution, yearbook, and a history of a Chicago hospital founded in 1891, including issues of the "The Lamp" (1958- ) and "NAH People" (1987). Includes the bylaws of the Norwegian-American Hospital Society of Chicago and the minutes of…

Brochures, clippings, newsletters (Bethesda Gleanings), and reports of a Chicago institution for the aged founded in 1907. A "Skandinaven" article, September, 25, 1911, with translation, covers the dedication of the building.

Constitution, journals, and reports of an institution incorporated in 1896.

Copy of a clipping from "Østlendingen" (November 9, 1969) about Peer Gulbrandsen, a Norwegian-born artist in the Chicago area. Also, notes of an interview with him conducted by Rolf Erickson in 1976.

Clippings, correspondence, poems, pictures, notes, and souvenirs concerning a Chicago woman and her activities in Norwegian organizations in that city.

Minutes, yearbook, membership lists, and correspondence of a technical society organized in Chicago in 1922. Similar societies were later organized: the Norwegian Engineering Society of New York in 1925 (later, Society of Norwegian American…

Copies of testimonials and clippings concerning Elling Tronnes, who emigrated from Norway in 1893. He established himself as a portrait painter in Chicago and was a curator for an art collector, Walter B. Gerlach.

Correspondence and other papers relating chiefly to the Society for the Preservation of Norwegian Culture, of which Mr. Highland was president. The Society was organized to endow a chair in Norwegian Studies at the University of Chicago. The…