This collection contains the family correspondence of a prominent Logan, Phillips County, Kansas family of Danish descent. Family members were predominantly professionally oriented, including teachers, businessmen, and farmers.

Logan, Kansas native Kate I. Hansen (1879-1969) served as the Dean of the Miyagi College Music Department, Miyagi College, Sendai, Japan. Hansen received Bachelor of Arts (1905) and Bachelor of Music (1913) degrees from the University of Kansas. This collection of her papers reflects these activities, as well as her personal and family history, and includes professional and personal correspondence, personal records, newspaper clippings, and photographs.