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Lutheran Deaconess Home and Hospital (Minneapolis) papers, 1889-1939
Collection Number:
P0619
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0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box)
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 Minneapolis. Soon, Sister Elizabeth Fedde, who had come from
Norway in 1883 and founded the Norwegian Hospital in Brooklyn, and began deaconess work
there, visited Minneapolis on vacation. With Elizabeth Fedde’s help the hospital in Brooklyn was
able to secure two deaconesses from Norway. Fedde returned to Minneapolis in July of 1889.
The Norwegian Lutheran Deaconess Institute was incorporated on August 17, 1889.
Scope and Content:
Correspondence, catalogs, clippings, histories, annual reports, photos, tributes, yearbooks,
certificates, and contracts of a Minneapolis institution founded in 1888 under the leadership of
Sister Elizabeth Fedde of Brooklyn, New York.
Access Rights:
The collection is open for research.
Bibliographic Citation:
[Indicate the cited item here]. Lutheran Deaconess Home and Hospital (Minneapolis) Papers.
Norwegian-American Historical Association, Northfield, Minnesota.
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Fiftieth anniversary yearbook, 1889-1939
By N.N. Rønning and W.H. Lien.
News clippings, photographs, and reports, 1889-1939
The Deac yearbook volume 1, 1925
The Deac yearbook volume 2, 1927
Nurses training pamphlet, 1920-1927
O.K. Olson papers
Includes a tribute to Sister Pernille Pederson (1858-98) by J.B.
Høigaard; information about loans (1894-1902); certificate of
graduation of Kirsten Aagaard from Mankato State Normal School;

Norwegian-American Historical Association

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plumbing contract (1891) for Deaconess Home; letter of Ingeborg
Sponland to trustees, July 14, 1903; furnace contract, 1891; list of
cooperating pastors. 1890-1902.
Annual report, 1910
Annual report, 1911
Annual report, 1912
Annual report, 1914
Annual report, 1915
Annual report, 1916
Annual report, 1920
Yearbook, 1908
Yearbook, 1901
Yearbook, 1922
Yearbook, 1924

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