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Gudrun Lodge No. 11 badge

Badge of Gudrun Lodge No. 11 (Albert Lea) of the Daughters of Norway. Used with the permission of Debbie Miller.

Midnatsolen Lodge #24

Daughters of Norway Midnatsolen Lodge #24 (Windom), ca. 1900‒1910. Used with the permission of Cottonwood County Historical Society.

Daughters of Norway service flag

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.

Daughters of Norway quilt

Cotton album-block quilt made by forty-eight members of the Daughters of Norway sewing club of Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1945.

Members of Daughters of Norway Vårblomsten Lodge #40 (Thief River Falls)

Two members of the Daughters of Norway’s Thief River Falls chapter, ca. 1915.

Vårblomsten #40 (Thief River Falls)

Members of Thief River Falls Vårblomsten #40 dressed to waitress at a Norwegian event, ca. 1890s‒1910s.

Freya #1 (Minneapolis)

Daughters of Norway lodge Freya #1 (Minneapolis), ca. 1910s.

The largest secular organization of Norwegian American women to date, the Daughters of Norway, was founded in Minneapolis in 1897. Its creators worked to form a group that focused on women’s needs, their interests, and their connections to Norway.

Lorena Duarte

Lorena Duarte (La Prensa editor) 2001‒2006, ca. 2000s. Used with the permission of Lorena Duarte.

Mario Duarte

Mario Duarte working in Minnesota, ca. 1980s. Oral History Office files, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

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