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Deaconess Hospital, 1907-1927

Collection Overview

Title: Deaconess Hospital, 1907-1927

ID: OGLMC/531

Extent: 0.5 Linear Feet

Date Acquired: 01/04/1984

Languages: English [eng], Norwegian [nor]

Abstract

Constructed in 1892 in Grand Forks

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The Deaconess Hospital Collection contains general correspondence files, 1907-1913, and a series of application forms and letters of recommendation for individuals in the Nurses Training School at Deaconess Hospital. These latter records are arranged alphabetically by applicant, 1907-1921. There are also photographs of nursing students, etc. from the 1910s.

Administrative Information

Accruals: Additional materials were donated by Jim Braud, Little Falls, MN, in May 2016 (2016-3316). Braud had two great aunts, Christine and Gina Eastvold, who graduated from the Nurses Training School. Christine graduated in 1909 and Gina graduated in 1916.

Access Restrictions: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.

Acquisition Source: Myra Museum, Grand Forks, North Dakota

Acquisition Method: Donation; 84-1267

Preferred Citation: (Description of Item). Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Applications - Nurses Training (A-D)Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Applications - Nurses Training (E-G)Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Applications - Nurses Training (H-L)Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Applications - Nurses Training (M-R)Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Applications - Nurses Training (S-W)Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Correspondence, 1908Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Correspondence, 1909Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Correspondence, 1910-1913Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Correspondence - Nurses Training, 1907-1916Add to your cart.
Mostly inquiries about the nurses training program.
Folder 10: Brochure on the Deaconess Hospital Nurses Training School, ca. 1927Add to your cart.
Includes a list of graduates from 1907 through 1927.
Folder 11: World War I NursesAdd to your cart.
Information about nurses from Deaconess or UND who served in France during WWI. Nurses are Nora Anderson (died in France from meningitis in January 1919), Christine Eastvold, Sarah Sand, and Selma Sand. Includes articles from the Fargo Forum preserved at the NDSU Archives (Blue Capes-Scarlet Linings; small collection 745).
Folder 12: Photographs - Nursing Students, 1907-1911Add to your cart.

Year of Deaconess graduation is noted in parentheses. Dates of the actual photographs are not provided.

531-1: Inger Hvidding (1907)

531-2 and 531-3: Tina Hegland Johnson (1909)

531-4: Mary Ann Serum (1909)

531-5 and 531-6: Nora Anderson (1911) in WWI Red Cross uniform (531-6). Died in France in January 1919.

531-7: Effie Kringle (1911)

Folder 13: Photographs - Nursing Students, 1911-1913Add to your cart.

Year of Deaconess graduation is noted in parentheses. Dates of the actual photographs are not provided.

531-8 and 531-9: Rena Olson (1911)

531-10: Mathilda Hoff (1911)

531-11: Mathilda Thompson (1913)

531-12: Selma Sand (1913) in WWI Red Cross uniform

531-13: (L-R) Rena Olson, Selma Sand, and Mathilda Thompson

Folder 14: Photographs - Deaconess Hospital and staffAdd to your cart.

531-14: Deaconess Hospital (postcard)

531-15: Deaconess Hospital with unidentified staff and nursing students in front, ca. 1910

531-16: Possibly an unidentified staff nurse (photograph from Litchfield, MN)

531-17: Inger Agrimson, born 10 Sep 1885 in Fillmore Co., MN. Nurse in Minneapolis in 1910.

531-18: Sister Christine Olson, Directress at Deaconess Hospital. Came to Grand Forks in the 1890s.

531-19: Dr. John E. Engstad, physician and founder of St. Luke's Hospital, predecessor of Deaconess.

Folder 15: Photographs - Staff and Nursing StudentsAdd to your cart.

531-20 through 531-22: Emma Hanson - the last of the three photographs is of her wedding. Unsure if she was a student or on the hospital staff.

531-23: Dorothy Kleppe - probably a staff nurse; listed at Deaconess in 1910 census

531-24: Group photograph with front (L-R) - Alice Olson, Amund Ostmo, Mrs. Amund Ostmo, Inger Hvidding, Dorothy Kleppe; back (L-R) - Mathilda Hoff, Mary Ann Serum, Tina Hegland, Effie Kringle, Christine Eastvold, Nora Anderson, Josephine Stenness

Folder 16: Photographs - assortedAdd to your cart.

531-25: Postcard from Gina Eastvold to her sister Christine, August 1914 (front has the Great Northern Depot, Grand Forks)

531-26: Agnes Gjerstad as a nurse. She was born ca. 1897 in Iowa and was listed as a nurse in 1940 in Minnetonka, MN.

531-27: Gjerstad family - Agnes in back, possibly with her siblings, ca. 1920s

531-28: Family of Gaulek O. Mona, pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church, Grand Forks (1911 city directory)

531-29: Pauline Urvold, Williston, ND, June 1916 (Urvold graduated in 1919 from the Deaconess nursing program)

531-30: Postcard from Irene Strand

531-31: Group of three women and one man (Rev. Floren?) outside a sanatorium, June 1921

531-32: Holiday photograph - names on back are Kathryn, John, Cornelius, Severin, Hilda Mae, Florine, Marvella, Alice, Neon Hauge, Catherine Braunschweig

531-33: Holiday photograph - Alice and Gudrun (sisters?)