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HCSCC Digitizes Orabel Thortvedt's Life's Work

May 05, 2025
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Orabel Thortvedt at the Minneapolis School or Art (Now Minneapolis College of Art and Design)
Image Courtesy of Historical and Culture Society of Clay County.

The Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County is making tremendous efforts to preserve and digitize the scrapbooks, letters, paintings, and other various works of Orabel Thortvedt. A member of one of the earliest settler families in Clay County, Orabel attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (at the time Minneapolis School of Art), and her work gives historians a good glimpse into the daily, mundane life of early settlers.

In an interview for Inforum, Clay County Archivist Petra Gunderson-Leith said, 鈥淭he Thortvedt family legacy is densely packed with information that helps us understand the people of Clay County and what it might have been like to live in the region in the early 1900s.鈥 According to Archive Assistant Johanna Nilles, the goal is to digitize the scrapbooks as PDF scans alongside transcription to make them more readily available online.

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  • (inforum.com鈥擬arch 31, 2025)

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