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Valda Valkyrien

Date: 1916
Description: Publicity portrait of Valda Valkyrien, known as "The Movie Star of Denmark."
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Wentworth Farmers' Cooperative Store

Date: 07 1947
Description: Wentworth Farmers' Cooperative Association store organized in 1919 by a group of Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish farmers.
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The First Norwegian Lutheran Church in Crawford County

Date: 1870
Description: The first Norwegian Lutheran church in Crawford County; a log structure with man standing in front.
Painting

John A. Johnson

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of John A. Johnson, painted by James Reeve Stuart. Johnson was a prominent Norwegian immigrant who became a farmer, newspaper journ...
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Professor R.B. Anderson, his Family and Visitors

Date: 1877
Description: "Professor R.B. Anderson, his Family & Visitors." Seated outdoors left to right around a table are: Mrs. R.B. Anderson, H. Herlofson, Professor Rasmus B. A...
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Interior of Norwegian-American Lutheran Church

Date: 1874
Description: The interior of a Norwegian-American Lutheran Church decorated with garlands and religious admonitions in Norwegian.
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Ole A. Lee

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Description: A seated studio portrait of Ole A. Lee, a private in Company D, 15th Wisconsin Infantry, in uniform, holding a musket across his chest. The following info...
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Alex Palo Family

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Description: Family of Alex Palo pose in a line outside their house.
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First Honors — Fall Festival

Date: 1927
Description: Sons of Norway group in traditional Norwegian costume standing on a replica of a viking ship as part of the Fall Festival. A large American flag flies from...
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The Eken Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Eken family.
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Eken Brothers Dairy Wagon

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Description: A man and a boy pose next to the horse-drawn Eken Brothers Home Dairy wagon. In the background is a house.
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Eken Men

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Description: Group studio portrait of men from the Eken family.
Photograph

Eken Family

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Description: A studio portrait of one of the Eken brothers with his wife and young daughter.
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Eken Mother and Twins

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Description: Studio portrait of Mrs. Iver Eken and her twin babies.
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Valda Valkyrien in a Scene Still

Date: 1917
Description: Valda Valkyrien wears a flowing white robe, probably in the role of Ashubetis on the Jacksonville, Florida, set of the 1917 Thanhouser production The Im...
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Valda Valkyrien, publicity still with shark

Date: 1917
Description: Valda Valkyrien wears a very smart vertically striped dress under a dark double-breasted jacket. Apparently she has just caught a shark on a Florida beach....
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Valda Valkyrien and Frederick Warde

Date: 1916
Description: A scene still of Valda Valkyrien playing a young girl, possibly in the 1916 Thanhouser production of Silas Marner. If that is correct, the older act...
Photograph

Gunnar Björnstrand and Ulla Jacobsson in Sommarnattens leende (Smiles of a Summer Night)

Date: 1955
Description: Scene still of Gunnar Björnstrand, playing Fredrik Egerman, and Ulla Jacobsson, playing his young wife Anne in Ingmar Bergman's Sommarnattens leende (Sm...
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Victor Sjöström in Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries)

Date: 1957
Description: Scene still of Victor Sjöström as the elderly Dr. Isak Borg in Ingmar Bergman's Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries, 1957).
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Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, and Birger Malmsten in Tystnaden (The Silence)

Date: 1963
Description: Ingrid Thulin as Ester, Gunnel Lindblom as Anna, and Birger Malmsten who plays a bartender in Ingmar Bergman's Tystnaden (The Silence, 1963).

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