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Container
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Title
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M96-118
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Part 2 (M96-118): Additions, 1889-1990
1.6 cubic feet (4 archives boxes), and 219 photographs and 183 negatives (in 2 archives boxes)
: Additions include personal correspondence with family members while George Nelson was gold mining in the Yukon (1898-1901; some letters are in Danish); courtship letters as well as later correspondence between Nelson and Christina Larsen; other miscellaneous correspondence with family, friends, and business associates; political correspondence, speeches, and campaign memorabilia concerning Nelson’s political career as a Socialist; various family papers, including autograph albums, a student diary, and school papers and souvenirs; Klondike ephemera and memorabilia and financial records from this period; business records concerning the Milltown Cooperative, the People’s Cooperative, and the Milltown Bank; and photographs of the Nelson and Larsen families, friends, and the Yukon.
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Box
1
Folder
1
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Clippings
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Box
1
Folder
2
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Biographical essay on George Nelson by Vicki Nelson, 1965
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Box
1
Folder
3
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Autograph album (George Nelson), 1893-1894
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Box
1
Folder
4
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Patterson Lyceum (club), 1896
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Box
1
Folder
5
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Official Guide to Klondike Country, 1897
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Box
1
Folder
6
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Klondike-Chicago Transportation and Trading Company, 1898
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Box
1
Folder
7
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Financial records, Klondike, 1898-1899
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Box
1
Folder
8
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Klondike newspapers and ephemera
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Correspondence
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Box
1
Folder
9
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George Nelson to Christina Larsen, 1894
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Box
1
Folder
10
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Miscellaneous friends to George Nelson (Elkhorn College), 1894-1896
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1898
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Box
1
Folder
11
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George to Christina
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Box
1
Folder
12
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Christina to George
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Box
2
Folder
1
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George to family
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1899
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Box
2
Folder
2
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George to Christina
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Box
2
Folder
3
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George to family
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1900
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Box
2
Folder
4
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George to Christina
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Box
2
Folder
5
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George to family
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1901
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Box
2
Folder
6
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George to Christina
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Box
2
Folder
7
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Christina to George
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Box
2
Folder
8
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George and Christina, 1905-1911
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Box
3
Folder
1
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Miscellaneous, 1892-1921 and undated
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Box
3
Folder
2
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Miscellaneous, 1946-1958
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Box
3
Folder
3
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With State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1955-1990
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Box
3
Folder
4
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Political correspondence, 1908-1939
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Box
3
Folder
5
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Speeches
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Box
3
Folder
6
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Campaign memorabilia
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Box
3
Folder
7
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Testimonial for Nelson, 1921
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Box
3
Folder
8
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Polk County, 1902-1942
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Box
4
Folder
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Marie Larsen obituary and funeral, 1949
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Box
4
Folder
2
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Nelson family student records and diary, circa 1897-1922
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Box
4
Folder
3
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Miscellaneous Nelson family papers
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Box
4
Folder
4
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George and Christina Nelson anniversary, 1946 and 1951
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Box
4
Folder
5
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Greeting cards, souvenirs, calling cards, etc.
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Box
4
Folder
6
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Brick schoolhouse on Nelson family property, 1889-1944
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Box
4
Folder
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Milltown Cooperative and People's Cooperative, 1929-1949
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Box
4
Folder
8
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Harry Baker correspondence regarding Milltown Bank, 1919-1923
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Box
4
Folder
9
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Miscellaneous legal and business papers (including Milltown Bank)
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Box
5-6
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Photographs and negatives of George Nelson; the Nelson and Larsen families; the Yukon; Frederic, Wisconsin; Luck, Wisconsin; Indians at Pine Lake, etc.
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