Seattle (Wash.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Guide to the Esther Lund Nilsen Collection
Collection
Identifier: OPVSIEmss_280
Abstract
A series of scrapbooks kept by Ester Lund Nilsen during the Second World War.
Dates:
1889-1942
Guide to the Sons of Norway District 2 Collection
Collection
Identifier: OPVSIEmss_270
Abstract
This collection contains the records of the Sons of Norway District 2 cultural organization.
Dates:
1903-2010
Guide to the Sons of Norway Collection
Collection
Identifier: OPVSIEmss_271
Abstract
During a depression which began in 1893, 18 Norwegian immigrants living in Minneapolis created a fraternal organization as a mutual assistance society built on the moral principles of American fraternalism and based on a group assistance plan from Trondheim. The name “Sønner av Norge” was settled upon and the formal inception of the organization was completed on 16 January 1895. In 1903 a similar organization was founded in the Pacific Northwest, the Grand Lodge of the Sons of Norway of the...
Dates:
1903-2011