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The Laestadian (Finnish Apostolic Lutheran) Church established in Finntown of Minneapolis, 1902. Finntown was located between Girard and Penn Avenues on the North Side, south of Glenwood Avenue. (K. Marianne Wargelin -- "Finntown, Minneapolis: An…

Morgan Avenue Lutheran Church (at Morgan Avenue North and Second Avenue North), build by Finnish immigrants in 1928. Originally named "Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Minneapolis."

Four musicians (right to left), William Syrjala, Matt Kilpo, Snowball [?], and Nellie Johnson in a theater orchestra pit, Cloquet.

Members of the Hibbing Workers Hall. The men and women are wearing a variety of theatrical costumes.

Vocal trio performing during 70th anniversary of Tyomies Society at Mesaba Park, Chisholm.

Socialist opera house players, performers pictured on stage from the play "The Gypsy," Virginia.

The note on the back of this photograph reads: "Last day of school at a school Lydia Leskella taught at. Or is it a township hall meeting? In Olden days families came to the 'last day picnic' at school." Likely Minnesota, undated.

Lukukirja Amerikan Suomalaisille Lapsille, a Finnish American reader for children by Alma Haapanen.

Members of the Hanson family and neighbors gather outdoors at leaf Lake. Lydia Hanson is third from left, standing. Her husband Rasmus is first from left, standing, undated.

Three young men pose with their instruments: two cornets and a clarinet. The not on the back of this postcard reads: "music group Rasmus [Hanson] belonged to," undated.

The note on the back of the photograph reads: "What are these men into? Prohibition days?" undated.

Studio portrait of Lydia and Rasmus Hanson on their wedding day, June 10, 1919. They were married in Wadena, 1919.

Rasmus and Lydia Hanson, along with an unidentified young girl, stand by their home in New York Mills.

Sitting left to right, Lillian Baker (Isanti); Sylvia Nurmenen (Duluth); Aillie (Duluth); Hannah Ketola (Virginia). Standing left to right, Alex Kurski (High Bridge, WI); Ernest Aho (Virginia); Eino Maatta, Ernest Koski, Frank Walli (all from…

The back of the photo reads: "at the turn of century everyone worked in the mines, even children."

The Valontuote Temperance Society at the Virginia Temperance Hall (now, Kalevala Hall) in the 1920s. Organized in 1893, this Society was affiliated with Finnish National Temperance Brotherhood in America until a dispute over a ban on dancing. The…

The sign reads: "Savu-Sauna. First in Minnesota-1868." The Savu Sauna was located in Cokato.

A Finnish immigrant family in front of their first shelter in which they lived and bathed while the house was being built. Later it was sauna.

Homemade metal sauna stoves hooked to the chimney with stovepipe. Some had pipes running from the stove to the adjacent water tank, commonly an old barrel, for heating the water. Others had a water tank welded on to the side of the stove.

A collection of cups used in sauna, made of hollowed out cow's horns. The razor was used to puncture the skin.

National Finnish Festival Chorus and Loon Lake Singers.

Handwritten minutes for the Mt. Iron-Kinney-Cherry Parish board meeting from the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran (Messiah Lutheran) Church ledger, Mt. Iron. Beginning in 1954 the minutes are written in English instead of Finnish.