Includes miscellaneous materials relating to relief work in Korea, Vietnam, and India. These are restricted, however, and require permission of Batalden or his family.

2 boxes in total, most of it not related to missions; includes such things as copies of twenty tracts related to the Board of Missions--all duplicates of things sent to Luther Seminary--, a paper called "The problem of a more unified base," delivered to the Joint Committee of the Foreign Missions Boards of the Augustana Synod, the NLCA and the LFC in 1933, etc.

17 photo albums (approximately 1300 images)
correspondence
various artifacts – including gifts she received from Chinese people among whom she worked

Collection comprised of personal papers, lecture notes and manuals on teaching nursing, and material from educational and civic organizations in which Ms. Berdahl was involved. Among those organizations, was the Women's Missionary Federation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELC).

Collection comprised of sketches, essays, poems, letters, and diaries of Katharina Blilie and relates to, among other things, Ms. Blilie's service as the historian of the Women's Missionary Federation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, of Brookings and Moody County, South Dakota.

Collection comprised of correspondence, certificates, photos, clippings, manuscripts of writings, and printed materials relating to, among other things, Rev. Granskou's experiences as a Norwegian Lutheran Church (NLC) missionary from 1921-1927.

Collection comprised of photos, certificates, clippings, bulletins, and other papers relating to, among other things, the Granskous' lives as Norwegian Lutheran Church (NLC) missionaries in China from 1921-1927.

Reports, minutes, historian reports, convention programs, scrapbooks, photographs of various circuits. The reports are to either the circuit president or to the district president of the ELC. The reports and minutes include to whom, (missionaries, colleges, etc.) the individual Ladies Aid donated funds.

Autobiography, unpublished.

1 file folder of letters: Includes ten letters dated 1925-1935 written by Miss Kulberg to the president of the Trinity Lutheran Church Women's group in Moorhead, Minnesota.
Collection – 1880-1935
Autobiography published in 1930

1 box: Various personal materials 

Various material; he was very influential in the UDELC in getting people to support global missions.

1 box: Personal materials including an annotated book about her mission work in Nigeria.

4 notebooks: Photocopied material of his personal files about the work in Columbia from 1936-1976.

2 boxes: Various personal materials

2 boxes: Various materials including many letters and at least one of his books.

2 boxes: Various personal materials including three scrapbooks

1 box: Contains six letters trying to raise money for the mission area there.

Boxes contain materials on the mission areas in Japan, Santal, Sudan, and South America. The amount of material in each box varies. Each field has its own box.

1 box: Various materials.

The Suomi Synod pastors who served were:

Antti Kononen
Armas Korhonen- Finnish Missionary Society, China 1925-1946
Niilo Korhonen
Arvo Korhonen
Norman Lund – served in Japan 1951-1991

Additional missionaries whose writings Finlandia has:

Ilma Ruth Aho, served in Japan, 1953-1958
Eino Vehanen, served in Japan, 1955-1960, 1964-1982
Pirkko Korhonen
Sarah Makkonen, served in Japan, 1950-1970
Jenos Kunos

5 boxes: Papers of Ethel Akins, missionary to China 1921-1948; Japan, 1949-1952; Taiwan, 1951-1962.

6 boxes, 16 manila envelopes: Papers of Rev. Richard Reusch, missionary to Tanzania, 1938-1956. card files, lectures, sermons, clippings, pictures, and documents

1 box: Papers dealing not with missions but with other matters, as well as biographical material.

2 boxes: Letters to Carl Olson from Victor and Evodia Olson Swenson, missionaries to China, 1913-1952; Taiwan, 1952-1957.

4 cubic ft.: Half of the collection is correspondence covering 1888-1914. The remainder is comprised of conference proceedings, statistical reports, committee reports, and financial reports.

Collection of J.F. Krueger:

Book cover – decorated with mother-of-pearl insets in floral design
Peking cart (wooden)
Ornamental silk ball & tassel
Wooden "paddle" with Chinese inscription
Chopsticks
2 Chinese Bibles
Shoes for bound feet
Chinese elderly woman's hat
Ceremonial Chinese cap worn by upper class on special days
Folding silk screen
Funeral procession
Picture-China shoreline

Chapter regarding Krueger administration at Midland College makes reference to his missionary experience.

Transcripts from the Midwest China Center Oral History Project.
Materials related to the America School
Scrapbooks and other material related to mission work in Madagascar.
Donations from alumni who were missionaries includes photos, object, postcards, etc. from both mission locations.

Acc. no. 757, 1 box: Letters from China, 1912-1915

Acc. no. 596, 47 items: Photocopies of letters from China mission field to family members at home (Mina Jordeth Hellestad, class of 1910). Letters written while on furlough; diary of 1940.

Papers and photos of China mission. Various acc. numbers.

Acc. no. 1724: Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota, June 1997. 203 pages. "A Matter of Cultural Discourse: Religion, Nation, Gender."

Acc no. 1506: 400 letters to and from Gertrude Sovik, in the China mission field and at St. Olaf College. Principal correspondents were her parents, Anna and Erik Sovik. 1920-1947.

Acc. no. 1615, 4 boxes: Letters from China, 1926-1965: Primarily to parents Anna and Erik Sovik. Also includes brief autobiography and journal.

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