Photograph of a painted trunk used by a Norwegian immigrant

Norwegian immigrant's trunk

Wooden trunk with a domed lid made in Norway and brought to Minnesota in 1825. The trunk is painted with rosemaling inside and out and has wrought iron top and side bail handles, as well as side braces and lock plate. "Fidri, Knuds, Datter, Ldjen, Aar 1825" is painted on the front.

Norwegian immigrants’ sawmill

Norwegian immigrants’ sawmill

Sawmill operated by Norwegian immigrants to Thor (Aitkin County), Minnesota, ca. 1900.

Norwegian leprosy patient

Norwegian leprosy patient

Copperplate heliogravure of Arran Reeve, a Norwegian man suffering from leprosy, by Pierre Arents, ca. 1886.

Norwegian Synod Church

Norwegian Synod Church

Norwegian Synod Church, Roseau, ca. 1900.

Norwegian-style ale bowl

Norwegian-style ale bowl

Norwegian-style ale bowl carved by Hans Sandom and painted by Karen Jenson in Milan, Minnesota, ca. 2000.

 Photograph of Norwood public school in 1903. Photograph Collection, Carver County Historical Society, Waconia.

Norwood public school

Photograph of Norwood public school, 1903. Photograph Collection, Carver County Historical Society, Waconia.

Color scan of a note written from D. F. McDermott to James J. Hill on August 6, 1890, regarding supplies ordered by Mr. Ledwidge of Clontarf Township. Mr. Ledwidge trained Hill’s hunting dogs.

Note written from D. F. McDermott to James J. Hill on August 6, 1890

Note written from D. F. McDermott to James J. Hill on August 6, 1890, regarding supplies ordered by Mr. Ledwidge of Clontarf Township. Mr. Ledwidge trained Hill’s hunting dogs. Letter is from the Hill Family Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Number 8 Shaft, Soudan

Number 8 Shaft, Soudan

Shaft number eight, Soudan Mine, c.1900

Nurse visiting a home

Nurse visiting a home

A nurse preparing to enter a "home of sickness” while working for the Visiting Nurses Association, ca. 1910.

Nurse with patient in Fergus Falls State Hospital

Nurse with patient in Fergus Falls State Hospital.

Nurse with patient in Fergus Falls State Hospital c.1900.

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