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Collection
Identifier: MSS 100
Abstract
The collection of early merchants' papers related to Indigenous affairs, 1816-1838, contains letters, indentures, and other papers created by three early merchants active in the Upper Mississippi Valley region: Thomas Forsyth, Russell Farnham, and Edward Kilbourn. Included in the collection are several letters to Col. George Davenport, indentures marking the sale of Native American lands in the "Half-Breed Tract" of Iowa to Edward Kilbourn and Henry S. Austin in 1838, and other documents...
Dates:
1816-1838
Collection
Identifier: MSS 225
Abstract
The College Interclass League at Augustana College and Theological Seminary formed in 1903 with the object to "promote interest in literary and athletic work among the students of the four college classes" (College Interclass League Constitution, undated). Membership included all students in the College Department who were taking a minimum of 10 hours of regular college work.
The College Interclass League records, 1903-1910 and undated, contains the league's constitution, minutes, and some...
Dates:
1903-1910 and undated
Collection
Identifier: MSS 25
Abstract
Helen Collins was born in 1901 in the town of Wakefield, Nebraska. Her father, Henry Collins, was a prominent businessman in the area; her mother, Sophia Collins, was the daughter of the Salem Lutheran Church's founder. Helen was one of seven children her father hoped would all attend college; Helen and her sister Elsie selected Augustana. While at Augustana, Helen was a member of Sigma Pi Delta (the Speeds) and the women's basketball team. The Helen S. Collins scrapbook contains...
Dates:
1919-1922
Collection
Identifier: MSS 371
Abstract
Theodore Celms, Augustana College professor from 1949 to 1963 and 1967 to 1973, was one of the many scholars evacuated from Eastern Europe during World War II. The Robert Cooper collection on Theodore Celms consists of photocopies of several short biographical articles on Dr. Celms, including announcements about his death, and photocopies of Cooper's class notes from Celms's 1961 Philosophy of Culture course.
Dates:
1954-2011
Collection
Identifier: MSS 346
Abstract
Robert Maine Coultas was born on 24 November 1918 in Moline, Illinois. He did some undergraduate work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before graduating from Augustana College with a degree in music. Coultas enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve in 1942 and served in many different positions throughout the war, including tours of active duty in Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific Theater. The R. M. Coultas papers, 1940-1955 and undated, contains correspondence...
Dates:
1940-1955 and undated
Collection
Identifier: MSS 388
Abstract
Tina Johnson Cranz was a resident of Galesburg, Illinois, and a former student of Knox College's Female Seminary in the late 1880s. This collection consists of a single autograph album signed by friends and family members of Tina Johnson Cranz. The album is peppered throughout by entries and drawings created by Tina's daughter, Ellen Cranz, as a young girl.
Dates:
1886-1911
Collection
Identifier: MSS 87
Abstract
Emily Caroline Envall was born in Galesburg, Illinois, on 25 November 1869, the oldest child of John and Caroline Peterson Envall, recent immigrants from Sweden. She received less than seven years of formal education in the Galesburg public schools. On 10 January 1889 she entered the Augustana Conservatory of Music at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois. She attended Augustana for only one year, leaving at the end of the semester in December 1889. The Emily Envall Dahlberg papers,...
Dates:
1889-1895 and undated
Collection
Identifier: MSS 336
Abstract
Arthur E. Danielson and Elmer Tragd lived in 111 5th Avenue in Moline in the early 1900s. Materials in this collection include a photocopy of a Moline city directory, photographs and photocopies of photographs, envelopes, an invitation to a dance, materials from the Columbian Correspondence College and the American School of Correspondence (Danielson may have been a student), and a letter to Tragd from an Edythe F. L of Geneseo, Illinois.
Dates:
circa 1899-1905
Collection
Identifier: MSS 273
Abstract
The Delta Chi Theta sorority is a campus Greek group created in 1965. Materials in this collection include the original pledge book, photographs, a newspaper photograph clipping and photocopy of the original members of the sorority, a procedures document, blank award forms, and composite photographs. The original pledge book is restricted from general use to protect the privacy of the group, its traditions, and its members.
Dates:
circa 1965-2002
Collection
Identifier: MSS 393
Abstract
Delta Omega Nu is an Augustana College fraternity. This collection consists of one oversize box containing two paddles (1975, a small pledge book (1972-1975), a letterman jacket (1947), three 1950s dance cards, and photographs, member lists, and a photocopy of a DON pledge book, 1991-1992. The letterman jacket is restricted to active members and alumni.
Dates:
1947-1957, 1972-1975, 1991-1992
