Josephine Brack papers, 1907-1987

Scope and Content: 
Papers of a St. Paul woman who was a leader in Norwegian-American organizations, especially in the Norse-American Centennial Celebration in 1925, the Norse-American Centennial Daughters of St. Paul, and the Minnesota Leif Erickson Monument Association. She held offices in all of these organizations and continued to sponsor an annual Leif Erickson celebration after the monument had been erected in 1949. She was also an officer in the group that administered Lyngblomsten Home for the Aged in St. Paul. The papers include some of these records. 

The above papers were donated by Mrs. Brack's daughter, Ione Kadden, St. Paul. A collection of the records of the Norse American Daughters of St. Paul was donated by Mrs. Brack earlier and has been cataloged separately.

Existence and Location of Copies:
Digital copies of the 1925 Norse-American Centennial materials in the Josephine Brack papers are available through the Digital Collections of the Norwegian American Historical Association website: https://www.norwegianamericanhistory.org/digital-collections/collections/show/102. Digitization was completed in 2022.

Funding:
Funding to digitize a portion of the Josephine Brack papers was provided to the Norwegian American Historical Association through the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, a component of the Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy constitutional amendment, ratified by Minnesota voters in 2008.