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First opened in November 1894 as a finishing school, the Lutheran Ladies’ Seminary in Red Wing, Minnesota became a full fledged college offering a Bachelor of Art Degree. The seminary had a renowned Conservatory of Music that was well known throughout the midwest. The ladies who attended gave the institution a nickname “prestefru fabrikk” – meaning the pastor’s wife factory.
On June 8, 1920, there was a fire that destroyed the schools. Efforts to rebuild were discussed but nothing came to fruition. The last president of the seminary, Pastor Thoralf Hoff, was a leading figure in bringing coeducation to Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. The Conservatory’s music director, Carl Youngdahl, moved to Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and built a well known program there.
Scope and Content:
Catalogs, journals, pictures, and reports of a Red Wing, Minnesota, school that ran from 1894 to 1920.
Catalogues, correspondence, reports, and yearbooks of a Bible school founded by the church of the Lutheran Brethren in 1903, located first in Wahpeton, North Dakota; in 1918 moved to Grand Forks, North Dakota; and lastly in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, in 1935. "In 1916 a junior high school course was added, and two years later the school offered a four-year high school course. In 1946 it was decided to separate the seminary and Bible departments from the academy. In 1948 the following names for the two schools were decided upon: for the academy, Hillcrest Lutheran Academy; for the Bible school, Lutheran Bible School and Seminary; for the two schools together, Lutheran Brethren Schools." From 1949/50 Catalogue.
Catalogs of a school founded in 1919 in St. Paul and later moved to Minneapolis. Some catalogs concern branch schools located on the East and West coasts of the United States and in Canada. Also newspaper clippings.
Brochures and yearbooks (1931-1933) of an institution in Winnipeg, Manitoba, established in 1913 by the Icelandic Lutheran Synod of America and named for its founder.
Brochures, bulletins, catalogues, pictures, reports, and a history of a Lutheran academy established in 1901 and as a junior college in 1933 at Galesville, Wisconsin. Founded by George Gale in 1854 and consecutively operated by the Methodist and the Presbyterian churches until 1901.
Brochures and catalogs of a private secondary school with emphasis on business education, founded in 1895 by Jens P. Peterson at Humboldt, Iowa, and moved to Minneapolis in 1914.