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Collection includes a funeral service program for Erik Waldemar Welander (1889-1962). Also includes a copy of the American-Swedish Monthly Swedish Pioneer Centennial issue for June 1948 as Welander was the treasurer of Tri-City Committee of Swedish Pioneer Centennial Association. 

Collection of bound typewritten poems titled “Verses” written by John E. Nelson of Minnesota and North Dakota. The poems were all originally published in various Swedish-American newspapers around the turn of the century (from about 1897 to 1907). Collection includes introduction of autobiographical information written in 1952. 

The papers consists of a typescript biography of Mary Strand Andreen (1870-1948) and a typescript biography of Edwin Johnson (1894-1958), Metropolitan Opera singer who went by the name of Eyvind Laholm, both written by Esther Andreen Albrecht.

Six documents from the Amerikanska Emigrant Kompaniet (American Emigrant Company), a land and ticket company, related to A.P. Anderson of Cambridge, Illinois. 

Personal papers and correspondence of Alphonse Hvalgren and Hulda Gustafson Hvalgren, both born in Sweden and immigrated to Prophetstown, Illinois. The papers contain a variety of original documents such as passports, receipts from steamships, Declaration of Intention, World War I draft cards, and correspondence, some of which were opened by the mail censor during World War I. Also includes information on Emanuel Hvalgren (1827-1908), Alphonse Hvalgren’s maternal grandfather, who was a Swedish philosopher and schoolteacher.