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                  <text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Collection Name: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Concordia College papers, circa 1891-1979&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Collection Number:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;P0490&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Extent:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;1.2 cubic feet (2 archives boxes)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Biography/History: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Concordia College was dedicated as a private academy on October 31, 1891, by a group of approximately one dozen Norwegian pastors and laymen who had recently settled in the Red River Valley. The school was founded on the property of the former Episcopalian Bishop Whipple School, which had closed in 1887. The school is associated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Scope and Content: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Brochures, catalogs, clippings, journals, programs, reports, and history&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Access Rights:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;This collection is open to research.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bibliographic Citation:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;[Indicate the cited item here]. Concordia College Papers. Norwegian American Historical Association, Northfield, Minnesota.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Box&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Folder&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Description &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Four panoramic photographs of students, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1930&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;"The Early History of Concordia College: A Record of the School from&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;1891-1910" by Rasmus Bogstad, 1940&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;1  &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Miscellaneous &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;College pamphlets, undated&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Clippings, 1891-1949&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Graduation announcements, 1916, 1918&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Faculty records, 1917&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Pamphlets for the Lutheran Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Endowment Fund, 1918&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Pamphlet for the School of Music, 1919&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Program for Concordia Concert Band and Glee Club, 1920&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Enrollment figures, 1927&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Endowment fund documents, 1926&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;40th Anniversary Homecoming Program, 1931&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Music and words for "Hymn to Concordia," "Concordia Forever," and other college fight songs, 1931&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Concordia Choir programs, 1939-1941, 1948, 1949, 1957&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Various commencement and homecoming programs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Student Handbook, 1947&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;One postcard; "Concordia Alumni News," 1990&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;"Concordia College Record," 1913, 1919, 1924-1943&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Alumni Directory, 1947&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;3 &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;"Concordia Banner," 1897&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;"The Crescent," 1914-1916, 1919&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;“The Concordian," 1930&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;4&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;"The Concordian," 1931, 1932, 1942, 1943)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;5&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;40th Anniversary historical sketch, 1931&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Newspaper publications of excerpts from "The Early History of Concordia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;College" by Rasmus Bogstad, 1941&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Catalogs, 1892-1951&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Three photographs of Lars Christianson, Ole Martinson, and Halvor&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Rasmusson.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;“The Crescent.” May 1917, volume. 8, number 8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The Scout Yearbook, 1920&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The Scout Yearbook, 1923&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;4 &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The Scout Yearbook, 1926&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;5&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Cobber yearbook, 1939&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;6&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Cobber yearbook, 1941&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;3 &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;7 &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Erling N. Rolfsrud, "Cobber Chronicle: An Informal History of Concordia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;College," 1976&lt;/span&gt;</text>
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