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Gundersen Family Translated Letters - First Installment, April 16, 1894-December 17, 1939

 Collection — Box: MISC 62, Folder: 1
Identifier: MISC MSS 285

Abstract

Booklet of translated correspondence between Dr. Adolph Gundersen and his family and friends in Norway, 1894-1939. The original letters are in Norwegian and are reproduced in the booklet along with the typed transcription into English.

The correspondence is generally not medical in nature but contains personal correspondence.

Dates

  • 2015

Creator

Access to Materials

Materials in this collection are available for patron use.

Biographical Note

Adolph Gundersen was born in 1865 in the Solor region of Hedmark, Norway, He graduated with a medical degree from the Royal University of Oslo in 1890. The following year he left Norway to join his friend, Christian Christensen, M. D., in medical practice at La Crosse, Wisconsin, for one year. Business went well and Gundersen opted to spend his lifetime in La Crosse, raising eight children with his Norwegian born wife Helga. Four of the children joined their father in the first Gundersen Clinic which opened in 1930. The elder Gundersen died in 1938.

Extent

0.02 Cubic Feet (1 folder)

Language of Materials

English

Acquisitions Information

Donated by Kay Cimpl Wagner, compiler and Gundersen Medical Foundation Archivist, Dec. 4, 2015 (Accession No. 2015.103)

Related Materials

MISC MSS 143 is a translated medical diary of Dr. Adolph Gundersen, 1894-1895

Creator

Source

Title
Gundersen Family Translated Letters - First Installment, April 16, 1894-December 17, 1939
Status
Completed
Author
Anita Taylor Doering
Date
2015 December
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the La Crosse Public Library Archives Repository

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