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

Members of the Sons of Norway’s Nidaros Lodge marching in a parade, ca. 1900.

Ms. Beret Hagebak in front of her sod house east of Madison, Minnesota, in Lac qui Parle County, ca. 1896. Photograph by Hugh J. Chalmers.

Minnesota's first State flag, designed by Amelia Hyde Center of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and embroidered by Pauline and Thomane Fjelde, immigrants to Minnesota from Norway and respected needleworkers. The flag was exhibited and won a gold medal at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893.

St. Lucas Norwegian Lutheran Church in Yellow Medicine County. Photograph by Carl Graff, ca. 1880–1920.

Young women in Norwegian costume. Photograph by Charles V. Sarnblad, 1888.

: “Washington Prairie Parsonage.” Oil-on-canvas painting by Herbjorn Gausta, c. 1880–1889. Used with the permission of the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, Decorah, Iowa.
Source: Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum

The homestead of the Ellefson family, immigrants from Norway, in Hendricks (Lincoln County), ca. 1880.

Spinning wheel made in 1845 in Norway by Ole Johnson Helland, a fisherman. Ole and his wife, Anne Martha Olsdatter, immigrated to the United States in the 1870s and brought the wheel to Fillmore County, Minnesota. There, Ole's son, Henry O. Helland Ulven, met and married Betsey Pederson, daughter of Norwegian immigrants. The couple moved to Dakota Territory, settling in Clear Lake, South Dakota, where Betsey used the wheel for spinning her own yarn and knitting clothing for her family.

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.