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Alfred Andresen papers, circa 1893
- Title
- Alfred Andresen papers, circa 1893
- Identifier
- P0019
- Date
- circa 1893
- Creator
- Andresen, Alfred
- Description
- Advertisements from the firm Alfred Andresen, the Western Importer, Minneapolis, established in 1893, regarding such items as "Sunhets Saltet" and other medications, spinning wheels, and "kromkagejern."
Contents:
- Advertisements and imported articles, undated
- One sheet (one-side) advertises and illustrates various "Norwegian wares." A double-sided sheet has endorsements "from leading European men" of medication, and also one from H.P. Leachman "of the firm J. Leachman & Son" of Minneapolis, Feb. 12, 1897. A very large sheet issued by Heymann Bloch & Co. of Copehagen, is devoted to endorsements of the medication, but does not mention Andresen. The address of Andresen's firm is given as 1310 Washington Ave. S., Minneapolis.; Added (Aug. 24, 2009) photocopied article from magazine The Spinning Wheel Sleuth (July 2006, no. 53): Alfred Andresen, Spinning-Wheel Entrepreneur, by Michael B. Taylor. Added December 7, 2016: Laurann Gilbertson, Chief Curator, Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, "Cast Iron,Flax Straw, and Celluloid: Business Ventures of an Immigrant Entrepreneur" (presented at the Northern Great Plains History Conference, St. Cloud, Minnesota, September 15, 2016. 8 pgs.)
Location:
1/A/2 - Advertisements and imported articles, undated
- Extent
- 1 folder
- Language
- Norwegian
- Subject
- Andresen, Alfred
- Advertisements
- Alfred Andresen & Co. (Minneapolis, Minn.)
- Business
- Minneapolis (Minn.)
- Minnesota
- Rights
- Rights undetermined.
- Type
- Manuscripts
- Advertisements
Collection
Citation
Andresen, Alfred, “Alfred Andresen papers, circa 1893,” Norwegian American Historical Association, accessed October 16, 2026, https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/items/show/9647.