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Sidney Gaylord Sønneland papers, circa 1921-1972
- Title
- Sidney Gaylord Sønneland papers, circa 1921-1972
- Identifier
- P0752
- Date
- circa 1921-1972
- Creator
- Sønneland, Sidney G.
- Description
Papers of a Norwegian-American (born in Harlan, Iowa) neurosurgeon who graduated from the George Washington University Medical School in 1921 and practiced in Los Angeles, California. In 1972 he established the S. G. Sonneland Foundation at the University of Oslo.
Also includes the papers of Caroline Marie Stuverud Short, mother of Amelia Short Sønneland, mostly concerning her son, Lloyd Short, who died in The Battle of the Marne in France (1918) during World War I; and the American Pilgrimage Gold Star Mothers and Widows (1930) to American Cemeteries in France. Amelia was a philanthropist who contributed to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Opera and USC. She was a graduate of George Washington University and held a law degree from LaSalle University. She and her husband, psychiatrist Sidney Gaylord Sonneland, endowed a science chair at the University of Oslo, Norway
- Digital collections available online here.
- Extent
- 2.0 cubic feet (5 archives boxes) and one oversized box
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Gold Star Mother's Pilgramage to France 1930
- George Washington University
- Sønneland, Sidney Gaylord
- Stuveland, Gunder
- Meyer, Lotte Larsen
- Sønneland, Ingebret Isais
- Sønneland, John
- Sønneland, Ralph E. 1916-
- Ellingsen, Ansgar
- Short, Caroline Stuverud
- Short, Lloyd
- Gold Star Mothers and Widows
- Short, Lemuel family
- Stuverud, Gunder Hanson
- Jensen, Anders Skibsnaes
- Danish Navy
- Trosner, Nils