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Aase Haugen Home papers, 1911-1976
Constitution, brochure, clippings, and history of a Decorah, Iowa, retirement home founded in 1914 by the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America. The clippings are fro 1911-1976. The Aase Haugen Home closed in 1974. -
Norwegian Hospital Society (St. Paul) papers, 1914-1928
Brochures and reports of a St. Paul, Minnesota, institution, founded 1901. -
South Dakota Hospitals papers, 1919-1925
Sioux Falls Lutheran and Watertown Luther hospitals. -
Luther Hospital and Training School (Eau Claire) papers, 1906-1997
Correspondence, history, and reports concerning an institution in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, founded in 1908. -
Norwegian-American Hospital (Chicago) papers, 1906-1987
Brochures, constitution, yearbook, and a history of a Chicago hospital founded in 1891, including issues of the "The Lamp" (1958- ) and "NAH People" (1987). Includes the bylaws of the Norwegian-American Hospital Society of Chicago and the minutes of that Society, 1911-1941, 300+ pages. The Norwegian Lutheran Tabitha Society was formed in 1885 and opened a hospital in 1891, which burned in the same year. A new hospital was opened in 1894. It became non-sectarian in 1910 and was reorganized as the Norwegian-American Hospital in 1929. The file includes a collection of clippings (1906-1913) about the hospital and "A Century of Service," 44 pages. -
La Crosse Lutheran Hospital reports, 1902-1925
Annual reports of a hospital founded in 1899 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, by a corporation, some of whose members were affiliated with the Norwegian Synod. Includes clippings (1902-1905). -
Fairview Hospital and Thomas Hospital papers, 1910-1942
Pamphlets, programs, photographs, histories, and reports of two Minneapolis hospitals founded in 1906 and 1915 by members of the United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America.
Includes:- Catalogues and Reports, 1928-1956
- Clippings from C.G.O. Hansen clipping collection, 1905-1938
- Pamphlets, Programs, Reports, 1910-1966
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Lutheran Deaconess Home and Hospital (Minneapolis) papers, 1889-1939
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. -
Lutheran Deaconess Home and Hospital (Chicago) papers, 1886-1985
Biography/History:
Founded in 1897 by Norwegians who had settled on the Northwest Side of Chicago, the Norwegian Lutheran Deaconess Home and Hospital carried on a broad community program of social work and care for youth, as well as operating a hospital and a training school for nurses and deaconesses. In 1904, the organization came under the control of the Norwegian Lutheran Church in America, which later evolved into the Evangelical Lutheran Church, The American Lutheran Church, and now the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Scope and Content:
Correspondence, constitution, history, journals, legal documents, and reports of a Chicago institution opened in 1897. Papers include a biography of Marie Rorem; an autobiography by Christine Johnsen; "Mission of Mercy, Women of Action: The Norwegian Lutheran Deaconess Society of Chicago", 39 pages; and "The Contribution of the Lutheran Deaconess Home & Hospital to the Community," by Helen Olson Ackert, a Master of Arts thesis submitted to the Faculty of Nursing Education at the University of Chicago, 127 typescript pages. -
Norwegian Lutheran Deaconesses' Home and Hospital (Brooklyn) papers, 1895-1960
Brochures, catalogs, histories (1923, 1933), reports, and clippings of an institution located in Brooklyn, New York. The hospital, started in 1883 under the leadership of Sister Elizabeth Fedde, merged with the Lutheran Hospital of Manhattan in 1956 and became known as Lutheran Medical Center. "Sagaen om Det Norske Hospital" is a series of articles by A. N. Rygg that ran in "Nordisk Tidende," February 16-March 25, 1943.
Includes:- Brochures, Catalogues, History, 1922-1960
- Reports, 1914-1958
- Brochures. Includes clippings, 1908-1958