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Two articles by James S. Hamre: John O. Even: Teacher Theologican, Biographer and George Sverdup's "Errand into the wilderness:" Building the "free and living" congregation. Also includes letter from the Concordia Historical Institute.

Marcus Thrane I Amerika and "The Kensington Rune Stone" by a Norwegian-born teacher in the Minneapolis Schools, and clippings concerning Norwegian-American Writers. Includes: documents concerning Bernt Støylen, "A Personal Historical Record of the…

Reverend Lium student notebooks from when he attended Augsburg Seminary, 1883-1891. Margin notes by Professor Sverdrup.Includes essays: "Ambition"; "Vacation"; "Daniel Webster"; "The Feudal System"; "Originality"; "Wealth and Whay Sought"' "Out not…

Biography/History:  In 1888, the Evangelical Lutheran Church held its convention in Minneapolis. Rev. Falk Gjertsen of the Norwegian Danish Conference invited several men to his home to discuss the possibility of starting deaconess work in…

Papers of a Lutheran institution founded at Marshall, Wisconsin, in 1869 and moved to Minneapolis in 1872: journals, pamphlets, catalogues, yearbooks, pictures, and a court record.

Correspondence and articles of a Norwegian-born (Stavanger, emigrated 1883) farmer and mason, Platte, South Dakota, which discuss local church life, the snowstorm of 1888, the depression in the 1890s, and World War I. References are made to Sven…