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In the summer of 1947, Robert Olsen joined the faculty of Pacific Lutheran College as a Professor of Chemistry. He and his wife Josephine (“Jo”), along with sons Richard, Robert Jr., James, and Paul moved to Tacoma from Detroit, Michigan. While in Tacoma, the family expanded to include Ruth (1951) and Timothy (1953). Professor Olsen retired from PLU in 1976.

Shortly after the Olsen family relocated to Tacoma, Professor Olsen took a series of Kodachrome slide photographs of the campus and surrounding area. Jo Olsen wrote a script to accompany the slides describing their content and providing details about the family’s new home and community. The slides and script were sent to the family’s former congregation in Detroit to be viewed as a tour of the area. The slides have been digitized and the caption written by Jo Olsen has been included with each image.

The Olsen Times was a newspaper started by 10-year-old James B. Olsen in 1951, covering family and community news. The paper was distributed to family and friends across the country. The Olsen Times was published weekly from 1951-1954 and monthly from 1954-1956. It was followed or supplemented by The Olsen Times Bulletin (1958, 1960, 1961), The Olsen News (1951-1957), and family letters (1961, 1964).

The Oregon Congregation Files contain limited information on Lutheran congregations in Alaska received either from regional Synod offices or directly from the congregation. Files may contain Congregational Historical Record forms, written histories of the church, service programs and bulletins, Congregational Statistical Record forms, and newspaper clippings. For a limited number of congregations, photographs and/or Parish Records are also included.

Papers of Oscar A. Tingelstad, President at Pacific Lutheran University, 1928-1943. The collection consists of correspondence, materials from Oscar A. Tingelstad’s inauguration, financial and stock information and miscellaneous materials from 1928 to 1952. The majority of these materials comes from 1931 to 1937 and is copies from the Tingelstad papers housed at St. Olaf University (the Norwegian-American Historical Association). This collection is arranged into four series and arranged chronologically within each file.

The correspondence is almost entirely related to Tingelstad’s position as the editor of the Pacific Lutheran College publication The Pacific Lutheran Herald, and covers the years 1931 – 1937. The inauguration materials include programs and related correspondence. The financial and stock information includes a book containing a list of the bonds, stocks, and pertinent information held by Oscar A. Tingelstad. The remainder of the collection contains miscellaneous documents belonging to Tingelstad, most pertaining to his work as president of Pacific Lutheran College. Also included are artifacts and other oversized documents related to Dr. Tingelstad’s time as President.

Contains the records of Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Salem, Oregon, including constitution, annual reports, letters of call, correspondence, congregational reports.

Contains the records of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Seattle, Washington, including reports, constitution, correspondence, letters of call, newsletters, and news articles.

Includes the programs and songbooks of the annual performances of the Pacific Coast Norwegian Singers Association of America Sangerfest.

Contains five programs for events related to the Pacific Coast Division of American Union of Swedish Singers, six songbooks, and one sheet about the tour of “Bergslagsmor”. Materials are in English and Swedish.

The Pacific Herold, a Norwegian language newspaper published by Pacific Lutheran University from 1895 to 1918.

The Pacific Lutheran University & Chambers-Clover Creek Watershed Grant Papers primarily center around the effects of and response to urban sprawl on the Clover Creek and the Chambers Creek Basin in Pierce County, Washington between 1955 and 2019. These materials include the administrative records of the South Suburban Sewer District, as well as materials relating to the organization’s annexations, correspondence, sewerage planning, and regional reporting on the sewer district’s activities. The material also includes records related to the Chambers Creek-Clover Creek Sewerage Plan, Pierce County organizations and community projects centered on environmental and heritage initiatives, as well as materials that center on the relationship between Pacific Lutheran University’s Environmental Studies Program and the Chambers-Clover Creek Watershed.