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Box 1

 Container

Contains 12 Results:

Correspondence, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: Folder 11
Scope and Contents

Letter fragment in broken English mentioning Victoria and probably written in the Peoria area. Folder also contains addresses of people in Peoria and information about a train ticket from Illinois to East Grand Forks. All are undated.

Dates: created: 1911-1930; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1996

Obituaries from the Grand Forks Herald for Victoria and Adolph Pearson, 1961 and 1966

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Identifier: Folder 12
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Persson Family Papers consist of letters and letter fragments, written mainly in Swedish, to Adolf and Victoria "Tori" Persson from family members in Sweden and in the United States. The letters span the years 1911-1930 and have been translated by Special Collections Norwegian student assistants: Ann Catrin Jern, Anne Berit Hamar, Nina Berg, and Ada Jonsson. Because the letters are handwritten in an older form of Swedish, there are probably some errors in the...
Dates: created: 1911-1930; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1996