https://www.norwegianamericanhistory.org/digital-collections/files/original/2a371188d4b37b128dfbf29a2289e9cb.jpg 1df7406a044a472afef66b6ee17f7dd5 https://www.norwegianamericanhistory.org/digital-collections/files/original/9431f0ba5d219c07a63a08c99a5636c8.jpg 5a7d46f6a1ceba18156be52246b4723a https://www.norwegianamericanhistory.org/digital-collections/files/original/8f74bf62bfb20f8d1342dab3e5ed11ba.jpg f9c3beb60c79d262ac0bae4ae4b695f4 https://www.norwegianamericanhistory.org/digital-collections/files/original/29da4ac00a3205874867042ccce1e312.pdf 6b895b3418d48509119b60adced3d6a1 PDF Text Text I - p I l1V Hvad er det storete og meat betydningefulde arbeide som er utfort av nord.mand 1 Amerika 1 de hundrede aar, som er hengaat ... e1den immlgntionen, begyndelae ? Farming er det ,torste og meat betydn1ngsfulde a�be1de som er atfo.rt av nordzmend. 1 A)ner1ka 1 de hundrede e.ar, eom er h�ngaat e1den immigrationena begyndel••• Det aom landet meet V.ngte for hundre4e aar siden var ta�ere, og det som det meat t;"anger endnu er farm.ere. Nord.mlendene kom aom svar Pafl nijderop. I h�ndrede aar ha.r de etaat til tjeneste Just der hvor de meat trmngte,. Der var ikke ma�e folk i Amer1ka i 1a20. Kun 9,638,453, hvon,.v 77 % bodde 5etenfor Alleghany fjeldi:me langs Atlanterkysten. Vestenfor tjeldene laa en ovennaa4e ator og trugtbar mark, �000 mil lang og 2000 mil bred, eom ventet paa ·.at folk skulde korn..:ie og rydde vmk akog og eten. Og folk begyndtE! at konune. De ko.11 :f'ra nmraagt alle lande 1 Verden. Fra 1821 til 1920 mottok Amerika en vmldig indflytt.-r•kare paa 33,803,2'14, deriblandt ,· 693,46-0 nordmend. Diase nykommer�,samt deres barn og barnebarn 1ndt1l tredJe og tjerde led, er det som har tat detraftigete tak.1 ompkapelaen aT dette uendelige store v1ldn1a til en Edena have, hvo� det nu bor et talr1gt og lykk�l1gt tolk. �Uordma:mdene bar V.:tet banebryt.•re 1 d.,ette ,tore arbeide. l>e r�rste nor¢:tlli;nd som kQm hit blev :rarmertt ,, pioner-fa?-m.��4- • oc d • ha,!' l'f�nd.clig 1,aai·et dti.gena byrde og hete, A�. $t'i:;F1 maatte ha :·i .u d hc.,J.G�.n t.t1 hvgr n &n1re P..V de:'."�ri bam l ."'·�- ,tc o..:.egl"'d. bor pn.a ln.ndet aom t,u· • exie, t·1nd;,� vi ,tAv nG'�dt1,tt ::vl. €5 " "' ;--;; rtnm.dtt.r, trn.o:-,, fiulru-lde1.•e• ua .. o�, '1T�n•k•r. 43.0%; tyt'kere,. :37 .. lJ·:; engl.em4el�o, 33.1%; irlfend.61"'•,lS.l;.i; rue-trf!.re, 1'7.l,,; or."¢, lieea t($n ma.a. ,i.·1 huake, d.e t, at no:.:-dm�dene hr:i:r gj o:rt eom. t l"l.ier • 1!. t. r;o1 •., ii t lean bevJ,ae• 1 de t lang& oe ! t1.e t 1.,rode. J)u ei e:r , et llo4• t� la.1111 1 nordv•• ten; de h.�tt' �.j o:rt et t l!¼nd ttl det bed.et.e i tiiii«mht•M Amerika. JJet paa&taatt .at de eier ln.:mii 3yd !k:Lltot:.i til en 'V'&l'di a.Y t1 i 0(10 '000, 000 4 00 'I' l I J'.Vu, °'Tord Dakota, \i"ieooi1•in oe: Minneeota �r ,i-, emnu n�uUeere� �lt ku..rt. bl�T t'!gnet av Nord lJakota i 1914. so1n •1ste hvor norrun:ttndet1e hla,;dde sit la.ml. De vat 1 bo,dddiel.•• av 1J;:ntr-e,1t en t��o.J edel a'f hel♦ atatent I lQlO 'flG:t' den gJennenumi tlige lc;J1J:p�:pr1.si 1,i;ix•., fti.rnl�nd 1 e torenede stater $46.M i paa land 1 de seke nordvestlie• ata'tel;* hvo:r nord.uen.4 er t$lx-igs.t.--,,,!1nru,e,;,te., 11ao<ine1n, :Tord Dakota, Syd Dakota, Io-aa og lllinoia al ••aa--- var pr1een $87. 59 J �--8.-·og i de oount.ier hvor normmndene hadde maJ or1 tet var prieen i2"0.oo. Ne:t , norakerne bar ikke :ne:ret daarlige tarmere. Og :Uclc - ?.t, f<)r.gJ.e-71Jlle ma bG.r bru.kt hode saa vel aom lwmd.er. T.C'.v:r:nclt j •·' 1·.ot.�s:1.tc>n og sl:tdor, �:'t I -:as. 1 I fe.br-ikertc ver!lansberomte vogQe �rm Ci eh Jl t Jo(1;:�·o,1 1 �i:Utit'n, -:-71!:l., bl£l'IJ' millionmr 11etfljn.J�ninga!uld. Norake:rnes EJtc5.rste og mttet be.ty<lnine�ful( .f: a:r:-"beide her 1. 1e.ndet er j c�db:r.ukere. d.• .r.ea ta.x•.ming. Dfl er lar,(leta bed.� te � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Norse-American Centennial Papers (P0562) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context P0562 Description An account of the resource 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. 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