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This collection contains the records of the Daughters of Norway Grand Lodge cultural organization, including items like treasury books, minutes, correspondence, convention information, song books, and other administrative records.

This collection contains the records of Daughters of Norway Embla Lodge No. 2, including financial records, membership history, and meeting minutes.

Tacoma Swedish-language weekly newspaper, published by the Puget Sound Publishing Company.

Contains Pacific Mission District and Conference materials, Columbia Conference Legal, Convention Minutes, Administrative Documents, Boards and Committees, Financial Documents, Women's Groups, Districts, Institutions of the Columbia Conference, and Lutheran Activities within the borders of the Columbia Conference.

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.

Students fulfilling the requirements of the Anthropology Capstone completed a Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Dissertation Fieldwork Grant Application. The work of students who completed the project and agreed to make their work available through the Archives and Special Collections is included.

The Pacific Northwest Publication Collection includes books, periodicals, memoirs, and other published materials related to the history, culture, and people of the Pacific Northwest.

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).

Collection contains the records of the Foss family, prominent in the development of the Lutheran Church and involved in the growth of Pacific Lutheran College/University as students, teachers, pastors, and service on the Board of Regents.