Search Results

Scandinavian Temperance Union of Moline, Illinois was established in 1898. Collection includes meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, correspondence with members of Congress, and temperance leaflets in Swedish and English from around 1916. 

Jenny Lind Chapel is the oldest Swedish Lutheran church in Illinois, known as the “Mother Church” of the Augustana Synod. Swedish immigrant Lars Paul Esbjörn and ten charter members founded the congregation in 1850. This collection includes some of the earliest records of the Jenny Lind Chapel of Andover, Illinois, including minutes recorded by Lars Paul Esbjörn and others. Also includes an alphabetical index to church membership of the 1850s and communion records from 1859-1861.  Collection also contains architectural drawings of both the Jenny Lind Chapel (A.

Augustana College alumni, parents and friends of the college receive the monthly e-news.

Series XVIII: Audiovisual Material from I/O:58 Upsala College (East Orange, N.J.) records.

This collection contains letters of congratulations and greetings to the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Synod of North America in celebration of the Synod’s 50th anniversary in June of 1910, and its 75th anniversary in June of 1935. The Synod was established in 1860, at Jefferson Prairie Settlement in Clinton, Wisconsin, by those who wished to abide by the Augsburg Confession to the fullest extent. The Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Synod eventually merged into the Lutheran Church in America in 1962.

Series XIV: Architectural Plans and Drawings from I/O:58 Upsala College (East Orange, N.J.) records.

Series XV: Wirths Campus from I/O:58 Upsala College (East Orange, N.J.) records.