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Samuel C. Johnson

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Description: Waist-up seated portrait of Samuel C. Johnson, a corporal in C Company, 15th Wisconsin Infantry, in uniform with corporal chevrons on the sleeves. The foll...
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Carl Nelson

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Description: Full-length cabinet card portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Carl Nielson [as written on published Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, Volume 1 and on t...
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Martin Norde

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Description: Seated, three-quarter length cabinet card portrait of Martin Norde, a first sergeant in Company I, 15th Wisconsin Infantry in uniform. The following inform...
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Ole Thompson

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Description: Three-quarter length oval portrait of Ole Thompson, a corporal in Company K, 14th Wisconsin Infantry in uniform. The following information was obtained fro...
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Lewis Anderson

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Description: Full-length cabinet card portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Lewis Anderson, a private in Company G, 15th Wisconsin Infantry. The following informat...
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Pastor C.B. Willerup

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Description: Seated carte-de-visite vignetted portrait of Pastor C.B. Willerup. In 1851, he helped establish the first Norwegian – Danish Methodist church in Cambridge,...
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Captain N.A. Peterson

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Description: Three-quarter length cabinet card portrait of Captain N.A. Peterson, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who was master and part owner of the schooner “Selt”...
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Olaus Pederson Grimsrud

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Description: Full-length portrait of Olaus Pederson Grimsrud standing on the deck of a ship. Other people are sitting and standing behind him.
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Olaus Pederson Grimsrud

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Description: Full-length portrait of Olaus Pederson Grimsrud standing on the deck of a ship. Other people are in the background.
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Group of People and Norwegian Flags

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Description: An unknown group of people gathered outdoors with Norwegian flags near what appears to be a pavilion. In the far background is a building with scaffolding ...
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15th Wisconsin Monument at Chickamauga

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Description: Monument for the 15th Wisconsin Infantry at the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park.
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Colonel Hans Heg Monument

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Description: Monument marking the place where Colonel Hans Heg was mortally wounded during the Battle of Chickamauga.
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Monument of Colonel Hans Heg

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Description: Monument for Colonel Hans Heg designed by Paul Fjelde in the 1920s.
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Ole Bull Monument

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Description: Monument of Ole Bull, a Norwegian violinist, in Loring Park.
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Statue of a Norwegian

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Description: View across lawn of a two children standing at the base of a statue on a pedestal.
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Ole Heg's House

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Description: Exterior view of Ole Heg's house with a woman standing in front.
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Wooden Building

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Description: Wooden building with attached structure.
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Side of Reymert's Printing Office

Date: 1916
Description: Exterior view of side of the James DeNoon Reymert's printing office, built in 1847. This office printed the first Norwegian newspaper, the "Nordlyset," in ...
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Hedjord Graves

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Description: Ten graves of the Hedjord family in the Muskego churchyard. There is an obelisk is the center of graves.

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