CATALOG UPDATES
Hei hei! NAHA is currently undating our archival catalog. Some finding aids are currently unavailable. Please contact the NAHA archivist with any questions.
Browse Items (6 total)
Sort by:
-
Northwest Minnesota Historical Center pamphlet, 1978
Guide to the Holdings, compiled by David B. Olson. The Center is a regional repository of the Minnesota Historical Society and is affiliated with the Department of History, Moorhead State University. -
Concordia College Language Camps records, 1973-1995
Papers about the Camps/Villages associated with Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, many regarding Skogfjorden, the Norwegian Language Village. See also in St. Olaf Library, "Skogfjorden: Ethnicity and a Contemporary Foreign Language Camp," a thesis by Margit Lea Myklebust presented to the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, December 2003. -
Oscar I. Hertsgaard papers, 1909-1975
Papers of a Minneapolis businessman who was involved in a wide range of church, civic and Norwegian-American activities. A graduate of St. Olaf College in 1908, he became a director of music at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, 1909-1913, after which he embarked on a long career as a representative for the Mutual Trust Insurance Company. He served many terms on the boards of Fairview Hospital and of St. Olaf College and held executive positions in a great many organizations. In 1939 he organized a Folk Festival, one of the events in honor of the visit of Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha of Norway. Because of his long association with Hallinglaget and his frequent visits to Norway, he was popularly known as "Hallingkongen." He was President of Bygdelagenes Faellesraadet for twelve years, in which connection he promoted the publication of "A Folk Epic, The Bygdelag in America," 1975. He received the St. Olav Medal in 1940 and the Knight's Cross, First Class, of the Royal Order of St. Olav, in 1947, from King Haakon of Norway. -
Olaf J. Hagen papers, circa 1900-1950
Clippings of a "farm home" photo; a 14-page address; a biographical sketch of, and two articles by a Moorhead, Minnesota, physician, who came to Ft. Abercrombie, South Dakota, with his parents in 1873.
Content:
O.J. Hagen Papers. "The Concept of Regionalism in Higher Education," by O.J. Hagen (1937); "Recurrent Thyrotoxicosis After Thyroidectomy," by Hagen (1939). Clippings. Letter from Olaf Halvorson to Hagen (March 16, 1942). -
Iver Kierland papers, 1873-1950
Kierland, who emigrated from Granvin, Norway in 1890 when he was eighteen, brought with him two mindebog journals from his high school years in Voss, Norway. Included in the Iver Kierland papers are these two journals, various examples of his classwork at the Teachers College in Moorhead, Minnesota, work papers, correspondence and certification related to his teaching and further education at the University of Minnesota and a speech he gave in the late 1940s that summarizes his life’s journey. -
Johan A. Aasgaard papers, 1952-1957, 1996
Biographical data about a Lutheran clergyman who was president of Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, and president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Includes: Biography and program, April 6, 1952-January 15, 1957. Program, "Unveiling Ceremony Bronze Bust of Dr. J.A. Aasgaard (1957); "A Secret Wartime Message: Eivind Berggrav to Johann Arndt Aasgaard, 1941" (1996) by Todd Nichol. Clippings in English and Norwegian.