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Constitutions, programs, and reports of several institutions in Illinois.
Includes: The Cradle. Mooseheart Children's Home. Norsk Luthersk Missionshotel i Chicago. Evangelisk-Lutherske Indre-Missions-Forening i Illinois. Norwegian Lutheran Mission Home of Chicago. Evangelical Lutheran Home-Finding Society of Illinois. Lutheran Home Finding Society of Illinois. Skandinaviske Kvinders Hjaelpeforening for Fattige i Chicago. Pleasant View Lutheran Home. Includes a paper by Paula F. Pfeffer (Dept. of History, Mundelein College) "prepared for delivery at the 1985 meeting of the Illinois History Symposium"" "Class over adoption practices: the Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society versus The Cradle. 40 typescript p.
Hazel Anderson material as background for Lovoll's Century of urban life (NAHA, 1988). Includes "Draft: History of Lutheran Social Service of Illinois" (6 p. typescript); "A history of Illinois Lutheran Welfare Association and statement of policy of the board of directors on unification, pp.1-2 (incomplete typescript). 4 p. typescript, timeline of institutions and organizations; 1986 interviews (typescript) with Christ and Emma Aasbrein, Leroy Carlson, Bergette Gramberg, Thomas Peterson (born 189 1, Art and Alice Nasheim, Evelyn Pfeuffer, Hulda Werness; materials on Unity Lutheran Church Girls' Home, photocopies of "Inner Mission Message" (1927-1943), Inner Mission Society of the Chicago area of the United Lutheran Church in America, United Lutheran Social Mission Society of Illinois (selected minutes, 1949-1961), "Home Finding News" (1949,1955), "Social Mission Message' (1949), "The Gleaner" (1951,1954), Lutheran Home Finding Society of Illinois (1955-1956; "Nursery Echoes" (Lutheran Day Nursery, 1986), miscellaneous.
Brochures, clippings, newsletters (Bethesda Gleanings), and reports of a Chicago institution for the aged founded in 1907. A "Skandinaven" article, September, 25, 1911, with translation, covers the dedication of the building.
An article, letter by Erling N. Rolfsruf, and photographs (1925, 1957) relating to the Lutheran church for the deaf and the blind at Faribault, Minnesota. The article titled "The Scandinavian Influence in Minnesota" by Wesley Lauritsen, a teacher for forty years at the Minnesota School for the Deaf, stresses the contributions of the Norwegians.