Plants: Cultivators of Curiosity - Exhibit Case 2
Moving along to Case 2, we have featured a beautiful book created by an Augustana student in the late 19th century:
“Flora of U.S. and Europe” scrapbook
Glim, Olof Nelson
Undated
MSS 159 Olof Nelson Glim papers, Box 1
This scrapbook contains many pressed flowers and plants preserved by Rev. Olof Nelson Glim (1865-1949). There are approximately one hundred samples, with many accompanied by poetic or Biblical verses pertaining to plants written underneath. A majority of the verses are in Swedish or English, with a few in other languages such as Hebrew.
O.N. Glim was born in Sweden and emigrated to the U.S. in 1882. He was a student at Augustana between 1886 and 1900, attending first the Preparatory Department, then the College, and finally the Seminary.
Senior Class photograph
1893
Photograph # C-L00143
This photograph shows the members of the class that graduated from Augustana College in 1893. According to a note on the back of the photograph, O.N. Glim is the individual in the top-right position. After graduating from the college, Glim continued his studies in the seminary and received a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1900. He was ordained by the Augustana Synod in 1899 and served as a Lutheran pastor at churches across the United States for several decades.