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Miners—many of them probably northern European immigrants—in the pit of the Soudan mine, Tower, 1890.
Detail view of a wood-relief carving titled "Immigrants" by Peter Wedin, 1930.
Immigration scholar Saengmany Ratsabout describes “old” and “new” immigrant and refugee patterns in Minnesota and explains how they have been impacted by federal and state policies.
Badge of Gudrun Lodge No. 11 (Albert Lea) of the Daughters of Norway. Used with the permission of Debbie Miller.
Daughters of Norway Midnatsolen Lodge #24 (Windom), ca. 1900‒1910. Used with the permission of Cottonwood County Historical Society.
Flag used by Daughters of Norway Lodge Synnove #5 (St. Paul) in 1918. The gold stars represent lodge members who died in action during World War I.
Cotton album-block quilt made by forty-eight members of the Daughters of Norway sewing club of Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1945.
Two members of the Daughters of Norway’s Thief River Falls chapter, ca. 1915.
Members of Thief River Falls Vårblomsten #40 dressed to waitress at a Norwegian event, ca. 1890s‒1910s.
Daughters of Norway lodge Freya #1 (Minneapolis), ca. 1910s.