Overview The Aagot Raaen Papers contain research material and manuscripts for her book Grass of the Earth, correspondence including letters sent to the teachers and school officers by Miss Raaen while she was the Superintendent of Schools of Steele County, N.D., research on the the Hamarsbøn family in Norway and America, and several articles written by Raaen.

Overview The Aagot Raaen Papers consist of photocopies of the original papers at the Hatton-Eielson Museum and Historical Association, copied with their permission. Her diaries from Sept. 1939 to Sept. 1941 are very detailed, documenting her teaching in the Newburgh community, personal feelings, and social affairs. The handwritten 1873-1938 "diary" (ca. 42 leaves) as Raaen called it, is more accurately a chronology of her life and of the Raaen family compiled many years later. The family papers include...