Browse Collections (65 total)

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  Mons H. Fladager Correspondence (P0092)

  Letters received by Fladager at Spring Grove, Minnesota, from his brother, Ole H. in Christiania and Rome, from an unidentified correspondent at Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, and from a son, Henry. Ole H. was a sculptor. Also, photocopy of letter written July 26, 1905 by his son, Henry (who had a clothing store in Srping Grove, MN) to "soskende barn Henrik."
  

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  Ole Andreson (Anderson) Correspondence (P0020)

  Letters to his wife at Wiota, LaFayette County, Wisconsin, from a Norwegian-born farmer who enlisted February 2, 1864, with Company H of the Third Wisconsin Regiment of Infantry and was killed May 25, 1864, at Dallas, Georgia. Andreson gives instructions to his wife regarding farm operations, purchase of land, and collection of his pay. He describes the health and living conditions of his company, the slaves he meets, destruction of property, and the battle engagement north of Atlanta. Two letters from Rice Lake, Wisconsin, are descriptive of logging days.

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  Berges J. Bergeson Papers (P0037)

  Select materials from the Berges Julius Bergeson papers (P0037) housed at the NAHA Archives. Bergson was the founder of the Mid-west Livestock Commission Company, Sioux City, Iowa. Portions of "Rambles 'Round the Range of the Sunshine, Sandhill and Treasure States" was digitized because it includes a description of their visit to the Norse-American Centennial in June 1925.
  
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  Norse American Centennial Daughters of St. Paul Papers (P0275)

  Select materials from the Norse American Centennial Daughters of St. Paul papers (P0275) housed at the NAHA Archives. The society organized in 1925 following the Norse American Centennial celebration in Minneapolis of that year. It has supported the Minnesota Leif Erikson Monument Association, entertained visiting royalty from Norway, and promoted library, music, museum, and welfare projects.
  
  

  Funding to digitize was provided to the Norwegian-American Historical Association through the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, a component of the Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy constitutional amendment, ratified by Minnesota voters in 2008.

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  Carl O. Pedersen Papers (P0303)

  Select materials from the Carl O. Pedersen papers (P0303) housed in the NAHA Archives. Pedersen served as pastor of congregations and rector of the Lutheran Medical Center (Norwegian Lutheran Deaconesses' Home and Hospital (1919-1949) in the New York City metropolitan area. In 1933 he was named Knight, First Class, and in 1948, Commander of the Order of St. Olav. He received the St. Olav Medal in 1939.
  
  The digitized manuscript deals with the observance of the Norse-American Centennial in the United States and in Norway. 
  
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  Gustav M. Bruce Papers (P0463)

  Select materials digitized from the Gustav Marius Bruce papers (P0463) housed at the NAHA Archives. Bruce was a Norwegian-born Lutheran clergyman, theological professor, author, editor, and lecturer. Bruce immigrated to Yankton County, Dakota Territory, in 1884; attended Fremont College, Red Wing Seminary, University of South Dakota, Temple University (Ph.D.), and Hartford Seminary (D.D.). He was a minister in South Dakota, Illinois, Minnesota, and Nebraska parishes; teacher in the public schools of Yankton County, Jewell College, and Red Wing Seminary; professor at Luther Theological Seminary (1917-1949); vice-president of the NELCA; and held a number of offices in the church.
  
  He was publicity chairman of the Norse-American Centennial, president of Østfoldlaget for 16 years, and of Bygdelagenes Fellesraad for 5 years. He was editor of several religious periodicals, a contributor to newspapers and magazines, and the author of several books on social and educational subjects. Correspondence and reports in this collection deal with Knut Gjerset's proposed encyclopedia on Norwegian Americans, Bruce's work as publicity director of the Norse-American Centennial, Norwegian pioneers in Canada, and bilingualism in the church.
  
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  Olaf M. Norlie Papers (P0561)

  Select digitized materials from the Olaf M. Norlie papers (P0561) housed in the NAHA Archives. Olaf Norlie was an author, editor, educator, and clergyman.

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  Josephine Brack Papers (P0921)

  Materials from the Josephine Brack papers (P0921) housed at the NAHA Archives. Brack was a St. Paul woman who was a leader in Norwegian-American organizations, especially in the Norse-American Centennial Celebration in 1925, the Norse-American Centennial Daughters of St. Paul, and the Minnesota Leif Erickson Monument Association. She held offices in all of these organizations and continued to sponsor an annual Leif Erickson celebration after the monument had been erected in 1949. She was also an officer in the group which administered Lyngblomsten Home for the Aged in St. Paul. 
  
  

  Funding to digitize was provided to the Norwegian-American Historical Association through the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, a component of the Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy constitutional amendment, ratified by Minnesota voters in 2008.

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  Irvin B. Anderson Papers (P1724)

  Norse-American Games Program from the Irvin B. Anderson papers (P1724) housed in the NAHA Archives. Irvin B. Anderson was a St. Olaf College student, a WWII Navy Veteran, Swift County, (Minnesota)Treasurer, and son of Norwegian Immigrants.
  
  
  

  Funding to digitize was provided to the Norwegian-American Historical Association through the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, a component of the Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy constitutional amendment, ratified by Minnesota voters in 2008.

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  O.E. Rølvaag Papers (P0584)

  Ole Edvart Rølvaag was born on April 22, 1876, in Dønna, Norway, and immigrated to the United States in 1896, working as a farmhand in South Dakota before earning a B.A. and M.A. from St. Olaf College, with studies at the University of Christiania in between. From 1906 to 1931, he taught Norwegian language and literature at St. Olaf and wrote novels, essays, and poems depicting the Norwegian-American immigrant experience, including the acclaimed Giants in the Earth (1927) and Peder Victorious (1929). He helped preserve Norwegian-American culture by co-founding the Society for Norwegian Language and Culture and the Norwegian-American Historical Association, and in 1926 he was knighted by King Haakon VII of Norway.

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  Aksel H. Holter Papers (P0168)

  The Influence of Norway in Promoting Skiing in America and "Norwegian National Sports and Their Influence in the U.S. and Canada: Written for the Norse American Centennial Celebration 1925 by A. H. Holter." Holter was a Norwegian-born merchant from Ashland, Wisconsin, and an organizer and officer of the National Ski Association of America.

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  Norse-American Centennial Papers (P0562)

  Correspondence, minutes, financial records, reports, programs, clippings, pictures, pamphlets, and scrapbooks of an association incorporated in 1925 in St. Paul, Minnesota, to supervise the observance of the arrival of the first group of Norwegian immigrants in America. The collection describes in detail the management of the celebration and gives data on observances in Chicago, Canada, Boston, and Brooklyn. Letters and essays reveal the loyalty of Norwegian Americans to their cultural heritage and the rivalry among area groups of Norwegians in America. The celebration was initiated by the bygdelags. The chief officials were Gisle Bothne, S. H. Holstad, J. A. Holvik, Elisa P. Farseth, and Mrs. Wm. O. Storlie. Correspondents include Juul Dieserud, Knut Gjerset, Hanna Astrup Larsen, and O. M. Norlie. The centennial received nationwide press coverage.

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  Ole Herbrandsen Aasland Papers (P0006)

  Includes emigration papers, receipts, promissory notes, and recipes of an 1838 emigrant from Numedal, Norway, who settled at Kendall, New York.
  
  The catalog record to the Ole H. Aasland papers can be found online here.

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  Julius B. Baumann Papers (P0029)

  Julius Berg Johannesen was born in 1869 to Johannes Johannesen Bauman and Barbro Susanna Pedersdatter in Kiby (Tyby), Nord-Varanger, Finnmark, Norway. His father, Johannes Baumann, was a fisherman and partner of Per Kristian Glein, a well-known skipper and merchant on the island of Dønna. He married Barbo Susanna in Dønna, foster daughter of Per Kristian Glein.
  
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  Anders T. Berg Papers (P0033)

  Letters to a Norwegian-born farmer at Sunburgh, Minnesota. Correspondents include Thorstein Berg, Johannes Halvorson, Bjug A. Harstad, T. T. Kopseng, T. P. Satner, and Johannes Tingelstad. All in Norwegian.
  

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  Ole Olsen Berge Papers (P0035)

  Papers of a Norwegian-born farmer at Manitowoc, Wisconsin: Civil War letters by Berge, other correspondence, and a poem. Berge served in Co. E, 19th Wis. Infantry. His wife was Berit Veblen Nygard.
  
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  Anne Dahlby Papers (P0062)

  An emigration document and letters (mainly from Kvikne, Tynset, Hedmark, 1883-1890) to Mrs. Dahlby, a Norwegian-born farmer's wife at Mount Horeb, Wisconsin.
  

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  Lars Bastiansen Eide Papers (P0075)

  Letter written in Skånevik, Hordaland, Norway by Lars Eide to his children, Lars, Britha, and Margrethe in America. Britha, married to Ole Berhow (Berhaug), immigrated (1858) first to Illinois and then to Iowa in 1860.
  

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  John Ellingsen Papers (P0081)

  Correspondence and articles of a Norwegian-born (Stavanger, emigrated 1883) farmer and mason, Platte, South Dakota, which discuss local church life, the snowstorm of 1888, the depression in the 1890s, and World War I. References are made to Sven Oftedal, Theodor S. Reimestad, and Georg Sverdrup. Includes clippings of articles by son, Elling Ellingsen, about "some of the experiences my father had in the terrible blizzard of Jan. 12, 1888" (1960).
  
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  Ingebret (Tveten) Eriksen Papers (P0083)

  Letters to Eriksen, farmer and merchant at Scandinavia, Wisconsin, from Lutheran clergymen regarding theological disputes; from friends and relatives concerning agricultural profits and losses; and from Civil War soldiers. The compilation volume contains typewritten copies of these letters, copies of documents, and a family history. Correspondents include O. F. Duus, N. J. Ellestad, W. J. L. Frich, J. Krohn, Amund Mikkelsen, H.G. Stub, and H. A. Preus. Alfred O. Erikson's article, "Scandinavia, Wisconsin," in "Studies and Records," volume 15, 1949, is based partly on these papers.
  
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