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Description:  Typed and translated civil war letters (1861-1866) received by Mathilda Cassel Peterson from among others her husband C.J. Peterson.
Volume: 1 box
Finding Aid
Control Num: SSIRC MSS P:55
 

Description: Concerts and Entertainment's: clippings and miscellaneous, 1899-1933. J.L. Eckman was organist and Choir director for the First Lutheran Church in Jamestown, N.Y. He directed several singing groups in the Chautauqua Lake region for many years.
Volume: 1 microfilm
Control Num: SSIRC SC-179
 

Description: "Reseanteck. om Nord Americka" "Fragmenter av anteckningar i åtskilliga ämnen, gjorda under vistander i Norra Amerikanska Fristaterna år 1821, samlade vid sjuksängen av Emanuel, vilken, ehuru berövat sina krafter och förmåga att såsom förr vara medmänniskor nyttig, likväl äger en livlig önskan kvar att vara och bliva det. Under Gästfriheten och den Ädelmodiga Vänskapens tak pa Hammar Gård i Skåne, December 1821."
Volume: 1 microfilm
Control Num: SSIRC P: Micro 3
 

Description: Family history, personal memorabilia, correspondence, and printed matters from 1962-1981.
Volume: 1 box
Finding Aid
Control Num: SSIRC MSS P:28
 

Description: Swedish-American engineer and inventor. The collection contains 8 reels correspondence, writings, project materials, legal and court communications, and other manuscripts on various topics spanning 1826-1900. Detailed inventory in SSIRC.
Volume: 8 microfilms
Finding Aid: available at SSIRC
Control Num: SSIRC P: Micro 4

Ericson, Oscar  George

Description: Ericson was a typographer and production manager at the Augustana Book Concern in Rock Island, Illinois 1924-1958.  He was also involved with the the Swedish temperance movement in Sweden.  He founded the International Good Templars in both Sweden and the U.S.  The material includes a biography, correspondence, printed matters and clippings.  
Volume: 2 boxes
Control Num.: SSIRC MSS P:249

Description: "Those Who Have Gone Before Us." A Family History - Pages, Thoughts, Notes, and Comments; Part I, 15. The Wadst Genealogy; Part II, 14, addenda to part II. Remembrances by B.A. Erling; Part III, 6; Minneapolis - Part IV, 14; Two, three hundred year old letters; Part V, 19 The New Zealand Episode; Part VI, 17; Genealogy - Part VII, 12; Winnipeg - Part VIII, 26; Sweden - Part IX, 21; Mamma - Part X, 20; 1976
Volume: 1 microfilm
Control Num: SSIRC SC-109
 

Description:  "Anteckningsbok" (bound ledger): notes on inside front flyleaf in Esbjörn's hand (in Swedish) indicate that this book was used from the time of his youth in the 1800's to record what he had read or thought about as being noteworthy in the realms of mathematics and social sciences. An index (arranged according to the Swedish alphabet) is at head of volume with page references to subject matter. Notebook includes text and diagrams; 404 p. and [18] leaves total.
Volume: 1 microfilm
Control Num: SSIRC SA-109
 

Description:  Original draft of the constitution of the Augustana Synod written by Esbjörn June 5, 1860 at Jefferson Prairie, Wisconsin, and correspondence from 1846-1870.
Volume: 1 microfilm
Control Num: SSIRC P: Micro 5
 

Description: Bibliography and notes on Swedish newspapers published in the United States and the microfilming project of the same spanning from 1859 to the 1970's.
Volume: 1 linear ft.
Control Num: SSIRC MSS P:26
 

Description:  Photocopies of the Friman letters, both handwritten and typed in English and Swedish from 1841-1862, and a newsletter from the Freeman Family Assoc.
Volume: 1 box
Control Num: SSIRC MSS P:294