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Contains the personal papers of. G.A. Anderson including class testimonials, his Bachelors of Arts degree, his marriage certificate, and his obituary. Also included in the collection are important documents such as “flyttningsbevis” and letters of dismissal, personal letters between the Anderson family, Swedish Lutheran Church histories, and church membership lists. Several reports from the early pastors involved in the Columbia Conference and reports from G.A. Anderson and Peter Carlson to the Columbia Conference are also included, as well as numerous talks and sermons written by G.A. Anderson. Also included are financial papers.

Course catalogs typically include descriptions of individual courses to be offered in the upcoming academic year. The information included in the catalogs differ by year. Early years included lists of faculty and tuition information. More recent catalogs include general information about the University including campus maps and building information, information on University administrative offices, and other details.

Contains materials relating to the career of Bishop Clifford Lunde.

Contains materials related to the career of Mikkel Thompson, including personal documents pertaining to his life as a pastor and his musical composition. Although a pastor, he also had an extreme love and passion for music, and music composition. Many of his compositions were written for the church, but he also wrote a number of pieces for his own pleasure that are not dated, nor, at this time, have any recognizable references. Also included here are musical selections he composed to various writers’ poetry, mainly Gertrud Schnackenberg whose father Walter Schnackenberg was a PLU history professor until his death in 1973.

Contains materials related to the career of Roland Swanson mostly from the 1980s and 1990s, including items from his time as an archivist, his correspondence, and his work on church history.

Contains the obituary, Ministerial Book, and correspondence of Henry Rieke (1855-1919). Also included is the obituary of Carl Anton Horn (1855-1915) written by Henry Rieke.

Contains correspondence and books written by Edith G. Traver.

Contains C. Rupert Swanson’s sermons and a few sermons and articles he collected. Correspondence from while he was president of the Columbia Conference (1913-1929) is located in the Columbia Conference Collection at PLU.

The Office of the Provost Records contain materials from and collected by former provosts of Pacific Lutheran University, material created by the Provost Council, information regarding the search for a provost and about the university’s faculty, and the provosts’ correspondence with the American Lutheran Church. Included are meeting minutes and notes from the Provost Council and various other academic councils, correspondence from individual provosts, documents pertaining to faculty salary, credit hours, sabbaticals, and so on, and various other documents that belong to to departments headed by the Provost.