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Contains three booklets. One lists the addresses of the Storla Family as of August 1960. Another is a booklet entitled “Mr. and Mrs. T.O. Storla” commemorating their fiftieth and sixty- sixth wedding anniversary with stories and the history of their lives covering the wedding, pioneer life, joys and sorrows, journeys, life in South Dakota, Missouri, and Canada, as well as poems, song lyrics, words of congratulations from grandchildren and great grandchildren, and copies of their homestead certificate and timber-culture certificate. Another is entitled “Storla Family History 1790-1960” and contains information about Hallingdal, Norway, Stave Church in Norway, the Storla Family in Norway, pioneers in America, the Paint Creek Settlement in Iowa, and genealogical information as well as pictures.

Contains information about Enånger parish, from about 1520 until 1960 including a description of the settlement of the area, the Middle Ages, taxes, and wars. Also contains an alphabetic list of the names, and a linear list of the different families. The material is in Swedish.

Contains several music sheets with song in both English and Swedish. Included in the materials there is a book titled “Swedish Singers: Song Album”.

Minutes, 1920-1926, in volume begun by Temperance Society of Swedish-Finns, Mt. Tacoma, #61.

A 31 page article written by Oscar Brown. Oscar Brown wrote a book about the story of Little Diomede Island and the different missionaries that went to speak to the Eskimos there and in Siberia.

Consists of a document written by Johan Mattson in 1951 and translated between 1953-54 and is his autobiography and biographical sketch of his parents and birthplace.

Inludes certificates, newspaper clippings, a reading titles "The Golden Jubilee".

File contains brief biography of Gustav Joergenson and photocopies of a program for the celebration of the seventy-third anniversary of the Stillaguamish Settlement, dated September 19, 1937. Gustav Joergenson was born February 22, 1883, one of eleven children of a Norwegian immigrant pastor. He started the first public library in Stanwood, the first literary society, the first Norwegian male chorus, and the first church choir. Gustav Joergenson died in 1963 and is buried in Our Saviours Lutheran Church Cemetery.

This artifact is in a bound book with copies of type-written biographies followed by photocopies of personal documents in both English and Norwegian, and obituaries, photographs, news articles, and other documents pertaining to the family history.There is also an inventory of family antiques in the Otheim home as of 1972, and descriptions of the origins of certain family heirlooms. While most of the history pertains to the Otbragde family since the mid 17th Century, in the back there is a longer genelogical chart that dates back to 1250 and traces the lineage of Tallak Ulvsson Brokka.

Contains a family history report, a correspondence and some family stories translated from the Sletken Heide. The book Sletken Heide is a book that narrates the history of the Heide family. It includes the journey that they made from Denmark to Oslo around 1600. The Heides were part of an upper class that received good jobs and also good money. However, as is explained by the creator, the fortune declined around the early 1800s. Inserted in this collection are a couple translated stories about some of the family members.