Studio portrait of Gustav and Christine Eide who were married in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Eide was very active in the Norse Temperance movement in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Studio portrait of Rev. Olaf Refsdal and family of Chetek, Wisconsin. Refsdal was an author and poet in the Norwegian language and a leader in promoting temperance among Norwegians.
Formal portrait of the O.S. Sneve family of Brookings, South Dakota. Sneve was a leader inthe Temperance movement amoung Norwegians, especially in South Dakota.
Portrait of the officers of Templars of Tempereance. Identified in this picture are Gustav Eide, who later moved to the midwest and lived in Minneapolis (thrid from the left in back row), and John Figved, who came west and settled in Milwaukee (first from left in front row).
A typical Norwegian temperance district convention held in northwestern Wisconsin in the 1920s. Delegates from local socieities and people of the area would meet to hear speakers, music, and fellowship.
Formal portrait of leaders in the Norwegian Temperance Movement. Top row, left to right: F.L. Tronsdal, unidentified, Alfred Gabrielsen, Theodore Reimestad, unidentified. Middle row: Waldemar Ager, B.B. Haugan, T.K. Thorvildson, Ole Br. Olsen, Gustav Eide. Bottom row: Andrew Wold and Inga Moen.
Photograph collage of the members of the Norwegian-American temperance movement. Includes: Gustav Eide, O. Br. Olson, Waldmar Ager, F.L. Tronsdal, O.S. Sneve, J.J. Skordalsvold, E.E. Lobeck, J.L. Nydahl, Theo S. Reimstad, Adelsten Berge, Anna Qvale Andersen, O. Løkensgaard, K.T. Thorvildsen, B.B. Haugan, H.P. Rud, and K. Lokensgaard.