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+ Part 1 (Mss 853, PH Mss 853): Original Collection, 1978-1991

Plowshares 8

Pentagon Peace Action

Avco Plowshares

Gulf War

General Peace Actions

Part 2 (M2001-061): Additions, 1874-1945, 1985-1997

Part 3 (M2007-094): Additions, 1989-1997

Contents List

Container	Title
Northland Mss 22	Series: Family Papers
Box 1 Folder 1-5	Olson family, 1921-2013
Box 13 Folder 1-3	L.J. and Ida Mae Olson scrapbook of 50th anniversary cards, 1944
Box 13 Folder 6-7	Uhrenholdt family history
Box 15 Folder 2	Sigurd and Elizabeth Olson in Wisconsin, 1917-1969, 1999, 2015
Box 15 Folder 3	Memorabilia and journals, 1925-1944
Box 15 Folder 4	Robert Olson's sketches and sketch book, 1945-1956
Box 15 Folder 5	Robert Olson's Hudson Bay trip plans, 1946-1947
Box 15 Folder 6	Miscellaneous correspondence, 1931-1967, 2012
Box 15 Folder 7	Scrapbook, 1930s
	Yvonne
Box 16 Folder 1	"Vonnie's Album," 1926-2008
Box 16 Folder 2	Genealogical materials
Box 16 Folder 3	Poem collection, correspondence, and memorabilia, 1952-1954
Box 16 Folder 4	50th class reunions, 1994, 1997
Box 16 Folder 5	Funeral, 2008
	Series: Correspondence	⇧
	Family
Box 13 Folder 8-23	1944-2011
Box 13 Folder 24	Olson, Burnham
Box 13 Folder 25	Olson, Derek
Box 13 Folder 26-43	Olson, Sigurd and Elizabeth, 1944-1945
	Olson, Yvonne
Box 13 Folder 44-51	1958-1967
Box 2 Folder 1-14	1967-1972
Box 2 Folder 15	Urbank, Bessie, 1965-1972
	Friends
	General
Box 2 Folder 17-19	1953-1977
Box 12 Folder 1	1985-1986
Box 2 Folder 20-35	1988-2007
Box 3 Folder 1-2	2008-2011
Box 3 Folder 3	al-Abaidi, Saad
Box 3 Folder 4	Arbaugh, Donna, 2005-2010
Box 3 Folder 5-9	Backes, David, 1983-1996
Box 3 Folder 10	Fritz, Carl, 1997-1999
Box 3 Folder 11-12	Link, Mike, 1987-1994
	Mulleneux, Hugh
Box 12 Folder 2	1980-1983
Box 3 Folder 13	1984-1990
Box 3 Folder 14	Murphy, Miles, 1995-1997
Box 3 Folder 15	Rune, Bodil, 2009-2011
Box 3 Folder 16	Solandt, Vaire, 2009-2011
Box 3 Folder 17	Stedman, Bruce and Susan, 2008-2011
Box 3 Folder 18	Stewart, Bob, circa 1953-1980
Box 3 Folder 19	Swem, Ted and Helen, 1998-2011
Box 3 Folder 20	Treuer, Bob, 2009-2011
Box 3 Folder 21	Whitmore, Bob and Verna, 2007-2011
Box 3 Folder 22-27	Professional, 1977-1995
	Public figures
Box 3 Folder 28	Legislators, 1985-1998
Box 3 Folder 29	Media, 1986-2002
	Series: Education	⇧
Box 3 Folder 30	Commencements and diplomas, 1944
Box 13 Folder 4	Diploma, Carleton College, 1949
Box 13 Folder 31	Student Life, Northland College newspaper, 1948
	Yearbooks
Box 13 Volume 1	Northland College Class of 1947, 1947
Box 13 Volume 2	Northland College Class of 1948, 1947
Box 13 Volume 3	Carleton College, 1949
	Series: Professional	⇧
	Civil and Foreign Service
Box 13 Folder 32	Civil Service Commission, 1952
Box 13 Folder 33	Foreign Service appointment, 1956
Box 13 Folder 34	Olson family diplomatic passports, 1956
Box 13 Folder 35-38	Benghazi, Libya, 1956-1958
Box 4 Folder 1	Benghazi travel notes and social calendar, 1958-1958
Box 4 Folder 2	Beirut, Lebanon, 1958-1961
Box 12 Folder 3	Beirut schools, 1958
Box 4 Folder 3	State Department international organizations, 1961-1963
Box 12 Folder 4	Paris, 1963-1965
Box 12 Folder 4	Ottawa, Ontario, 1965-1967
	Vietnam
Box 12 Folder 5-19	General, 1968-1969
Box 14 Folder 1	Journal, "Personal Matters"
Box 14 Folder 2	Journal, "Home Leave," 1969 September
Box 14 Folder 3	Vietnamese language lessons
Box 14 Folder 4	News clippings, 1968-1970, 1995
Box 14 Folder 5	Journal entries and accompanying news clippings, 1968-1969
Box 14 Folder 6	"Vietnam Roundup" newsletter, 1968-1969
Box 14 Folder 7	Pacification and CORDS (Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support), 1965-1981
Box 15 Folder 1	Vietnam history and travel guides, 1965-1973
Box 4 Folder 20	Washington, D.C., 1970-1971
Box 4 Folder 21	Honduras, 1971-1973
Box 12 Folder 6	Washington, D.C., Food and Agriculture organization, 1972-1973
Box 4 Folder 22	State Department, Washington, D.C., and Rome, 1974-1976
Box 12 Folder 7	Rome, World Food Conference, 1974
Box 12 Folder 8	Rome housing, 1974-975
Box 4 Folder 23	State Department, post-retirement, 1978-1985
Box 4 Folder 24	Awards and honors, 1961-1991
Box 13 Folder 5	Oversize awards and honors, 1965-1975
Box 13 Folder 25	Arlington, Virginia, house records, 1965-1976
	Post-Foreign Service International Affairs work
Box 13 Folder 26-31	Academy of Independent Scholars, 1982-1987
Box 13 Folder 32	American Foreign Service Association, 1986-1994
Box 5 Folder 1	Association for Diplomatic Studies, 1987-1998
Box 5 Folder 2-4	Association to Unite the Democracies, 1986-2010
Box 5 Folder 5-6	Atlantic Council of the United States, 1985-1989
Box 12 Folder 9	Atlantic Council of the United States Midwest Regional Conference, 1987-1988
	Cancun Summit
Box 5 Folder 7	1981
Box 12 Folder 10-11	1981-1982
Box 5 Folder 8	Club of Rome, 1982-1988
	Committee for a Community of Democracies
Box 5 Folder 9-15	1978-1982 April
Box 12 Folder 12	1982 May-June
Box 5 Folder 16-22	1982 July-1983
Box 12 Folder 13	1984
Box 5 Folder 23-28	1985-1987
Box 6 Folder 1-2	1988-1992
Box 6 Folder 3-12	”Toward a Community of Democracies: A Compendium of Readings,” 1982
Box 6 Folder 13	Committee for the Free World, 1981-1983
Box 6 Folder 14-16	Council for a Community of Democracies, 2000-2012
Box 6 Folder 17	Duluth World Affairs Committee
Box 6 Folder 18-23	The European-Atlantic Movement, 1979-1987
Box 6 Folder 24	Future Studies, 1984-1985
	Global Tomorrow Coalition
Box 6 Folder 25-31	1981-1986
Box 7 Folder 1-3	Globescope conferences, 1985-1987
Box 7 Folder 4	Newsletters, 1985-1989
Box 7 Folder 5	United Nations Environmental Programme, 1985-1992
Box 7 Folder 6	Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, 1986-1988
Box 7 Folder 7-8	Institute of Peace grants, 1989-1996
Box 7 Folder 9	International Disaster Institute, 1979-1980
Box 7 Folder 10-18	Institute of World Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Box 7 Folder 19	Lake Superior Association of Colleges and Universities, 1972-1979
Box 7 Folder 20	Minnesota International Center, 1986-1987
Box 7 Folder 21	Minnesota World Affairs Center
Box 7 Folder 22	Model United Nations, University of Wisconsin-Superior, 1977
Box 7 Folder 23-24	Non-Aligned countries, 1983-2012
Box 7 Folder 25	North Atlantic Assembly, 1988
Box 7 Folder 26-27	North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 1979-1997
Box 7 Folder 28	Northland College job offer, 1968-1969
Box 12 Folder 14	Oxford University, 1977-1988
Box 7 Folder 29	Progressive Forum, 1987-1997
Box 7 Folder 30	Royal Institute of International Affairs
Box 12 Folder 15	Scholarly Resources Inc., 1983-1985
Box 7 Folder 31	Society for Historians of Foreign Relations, 1981-1986
Box 7 Folder 32-38	Standing Conference of Atlantic Organizations, 1978-1988
Box 12 Folder 16	Telemark World Affairs Center proposal, 1979-1980
Box 7 Folder 39	Wisconsin-Nicaragua Partnership, 1995-1997
	Post-Foreign Service environmental work
Box 7 Folder 40	Cable Natural History Museum, 1980-1982
Box 7 Folder 41	Ely, Minnesota, Wolf Center, 1987-1988
Box 7 Folder 42	Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness, 1987-1990
	Listening Point Foundation
Box 7 Folder 43-44	Background, 1956-2008
Box 8 Folder 1-6	1998-2008
Box 8 Folder 7	National Parks, 1995
Box 8 Folder 8-23	Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute, Northland College, 1977-2008
Box 8 Folder 24	Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame, 1987
	Series: Uhrenholdt Farm	⇧
Box 9 Folder 1-5	Correspondence, 1944-2009
Box 9 Folder 6-9	Farm forest management, 1973-2007
Box 9 Folder 10	Uhrenholdt Memorial State Forest
Box 9 Folder 11	Donation to Northland College, 2010-2012
Box 9 Folder 12	Farm management awards
Box 9 Folder 13-17	Wisconsin Woodland Owners Association, 1994-2010
	Series: Writings	⇧
	School papers
Box 9 Folder 18	Carleton College/University of Denver, 1948-1950
Box 9 Volume 4	Thesis: “Canada's International Position in the Mid-Twentieth Century,” 1951
Box 9 Folder 19	University of Minnesota, 1955
	Foreign affairs
Box 12 Folder 17-18	Writing ideas, 1954-1982
Box 9 Folder 19-24	Articles, 1979
Box 9 Folder 25	Book reviews by Robert Olson, 1980-1984
Box 9 Folder 26	Middle East peace process articles, 1990-2001
Box 12 Folder 19	“The Chanak Affair”
Box 9 Folder 27	“Democratic Intervention”
Box 9 Folder 28	“Europe and the Palestinians,” 2004
Box 9 Folder 29	“Europe: Vital Link in the Peace Process,” 1995-1996
Box 9 Folder 30-31	“The European Question,” 1982-1983
Box 9 Folder 32	“The Fashoda Syndrome,” 1981
Box 9 Folder 33	“Fatal Encounter,” 1989
Box 9 Folder 34	“The Fifth Challenge”
Box 9 Folder 36	“The Global 2000 Movement in the United States,” 1982
Box 9 Folder 37	“The Global Tomorrow Coalition Movement in the United States,” 1983
Box 10 Folder 1	“Heir to Empire,” 1983
Box 10 Folder 2	“Lebanon: Shattered Nation in the Middle East,” 1982
Box 12 Folder 20	“Lurching Toward Bethlehem”
Box 10 Folder 3	“The Mandate of the Democracies,” 1981
Box 10 Folder 4	“Present at the Creation: U.S. Ambassador Henry Grady on Indian Independence,” 1997
Box 12 Folder 21	“Present at the Creation,” manuscript and notes, 1997
Box 10 Folder 5-10	“The Road to Palestine,” 1997-1998
Box 10 Folder 11	“Turkey: Eastern Outpost of the Alliance,” 1986
Box 11 Folder 1	“Unfinished Business: A Western World View,” 1981
Box 11 Volume 5	U.S. Foreign Policy and the New International Economic Order, 1981
Box 12 Folder 22	U.S. Foreign Policy and the New International Economic Order, 1981
Box 11 Folder 2	U.S. Foreign Policy and the New International Economic Order reviews, 1981-1987
Box 11 Folder 3	“The Watershed Years,” 1982
Box 11 Folder 4	Publishers' materials
	Environmental
Box 12 Folder 23	Environmental writing ideas, 1966-1997
Box 11 Folder 5-7	Environmental writings, 1990-2004
Box 11 Folder 8	“Beyond Environmentalism,” 1988
Box 11 Folder 9-10	The Collected Works of Sigurd F. Olson, Introduction, 1987-1988
Box 11 Folder 11	“Northwest Passage,” circa 1976
Box 11 Folder 12	“A River Runs Through It,” 1999
Box 11 Folder 13	“Wilderness International: The New Horizon,” 1989-1992
Box 11 Folder 14	Wilderness article notes, 2003
PH Northland Mss 22	Series: Photographs	⇧
	Family photographs
Box 1 Folder 1-2	L.J. and Ida Mae Olson
Box 7 Folder 1	Negatives, circa 1935-1944
Box 1 Folder 3-6	Scrapbook, circa 1875-2005
Box 1 Folder 7-9	Ida Mae Olson photo album, circa 1912-1946
Box 1 Folder 10-12	Elizabeth Uhrenholdt Olson scrapbook, 1906-1921
Box 1 Folder 13-15	Sigurd Olson scrapbook, 1915-1921
Box 4 Folder 1-6	Sigurd and Elizabeth Olson family scrapbook, circa 1917-1956
Box 1 Folder 16	Olson Family in Ely, Minnesota, circa 1935-1943
Box 7 Folder 2	Negatives, circa 1935-1943
Box 6 Folder 12	Photos of Yvonne O. (Urbank) Olson and family, 1929-1930, 1956-1957
Box 7 Folder 14	Negatives
	Robert Olson early life and marriage
Box 4 Folder 6-9	Teen years scrapbook, 1939-1944
Box 1 Folder 17-18	Guiding jobs, 1941-1954
Box 7 Folder 3	Negatives, circa 1943-1946
Box 1 Folder 19	World War II photographs, 1944-1945
Box 7 Folder 4	Negatives, 1944-1945
Box 1 Folder 20	Northland College, 1946-1947
Box 7 Folder 5	Negatives, 1946-1947
Box 1 Folder 21	Robert and Yvonne Olson wedding, 1947
Box 7 Folder 6	Negatives, 1947
Box 1 Folder 22	Graduation from Carleton College, 1949
Box 5 Folder 1-4	College years scrapbook, 1946-1949
Box 1 Folder 23	Denver, Colorado, and California, 1951-1954
Box 1 Folder 24	California and Phoenix, Arizona, 1951-1953
Box 7 Folder 7	Robert Olson California negatives, 1950-1954
Box 5 Folder 5-6	California and University of Minnesota scrapbook, 1952-1956
Box 1 Folder 25-28	Children: Burnham and Derek Olson, 1948-2000
Box 7 Folder 8-9	Negatives, 1954-2000
Box 1 Folder 29	Photographs of friends, 1955-1958
Box 1 Folder 30	Skiing and hunting photographs, 1950-1960
Box 1 Folder 31	Miscellaneous, 1946-1954
Box 7 Folder 10	Miscellaneous negatives, 1950-1960
	Foreign Service years
Box 1 Folder 32	Home leave from Beirut, 1958-1959
Box 1 Folder 33	Beirut and Damascus, 1959-1961
Box 1 Folder 34	House in Arlington, Virginia, 1962
Box 1 Folder 35	Home leave trip from Washington, D.C., to Ely, Minnesota, 1963
Box 7 Folder 11	Home leave from Foreign Service negatives, 1958-1965
Box 7 Folder 12	Home leave slides, 1961-1963
Box 6 Folder 1-7	Foreign Service scrapbook, 1956-1970
Box 1 Folder 36-40	Arlington, Virginia, photographs, 1971-1976
Box 7 Folder 13	House in Arlington, Virginia, circa 1962-1974
Box 6 Folder 8-11	Arlington, Virginia, scrapbook, 1970-1974
Box 1 Folder 41	Official State Department photographs, circa 1963-1970
Box 1 Folder 42-44	Uhrenholdt farm photographs, 1965-1977
	Post-Foreign Service years
	Scrapbooks
Box 2 Folder 1	1976-1989
Box 2 Folder 2	1990-1994
Box 2 Folder 3	2000-2001
Box 3 Folder 4	2002-2005
Box 3 Folder 5	2005-2008 March
Box 3 Folder 6	2008 March-2009
Box 3 Folder 7	2011
Box 3 Folder 8	2012-2013
Box 1 Folder 45	Listening Point Foundation, 1974
Box 1 Folder 46	Miscellaneous, 1985-2012
Audio 1725A	Series: Audio Recording	⇧
1725A/1	Robert Olson interview on WYMS talk show, 1984