Ole G. Felland photograph collection

Ole Gunderson (O.G.) Felland was born October 10, 1853 in Utica, Wisconsin.  He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Luther College in 1874, a Master of Art from Northwestern College in 1876 and graduated from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri in 1879.  In 1881, he joined the faculty at St. Olaf Academy where he taught Greek, Latin, German and Hebrew and in 1891, became the college’s librarian.

O.G. Felland married Thea Midboe in 1883 and together they had six children: Thonny, Hermo, Elsa, Valborg, Osmund, and Nordis. He was an avid photographer and some of his favorite subjects were friends, family, the early construction of St. Olaf College, his plants and flowers, and the landscape surrounding St. Olaf College.  O.G. Felland passed away in 1938 at the home of his daughter Mrs. Arthur E. Armstrong (Elsa) in Bronson, Michigan and was buried in Northfield.

 

This collection contains two series: the first consists of the digital surrogates and the second lists the physical inventory of the glass plate negatives. The numbers listed in the titles indicate the negative number assigned by Ole G. Felland. The following negative numbers were missing at the time of processing: 26, 121, 147, 438A, 577A, 588A, 718A, 815A, 837A, 870A, 953, 953A, [959], 979A, 1111A, 1139, 1269A, and 1309A.

Some images have been photocopied and filed in the Archives storage (Room 215) in the first filing cabinet, R1D1S1-4.