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Brenda Ueland papers, circa 1950-2005
Biography of Clara Ueland by her daughter, Brenda, covers the years 1830 to 1927; includes letters by members of her family; and discusses such topics as war, woman suffrage, child discipline, League of Women Voters, religion, education, politics, and manners.
Includes letter from Carl G.O. Hansen to B. Ueland (recollections of Ueland's father); Vigdis Devik's "Privileged Family--Privileged Ethnicity: Ethnic Parental Polarization and Historical Contexts that Shaped the Life of Norwegian-American Columnist Brenda Ueland," article in Duluth Skandinaven, June 1952 by Paal Berg, and a master's thesis presented to the Department of Modern Foreign Languages, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, May 2005.
Brenda Ueland (1891-1985), a prominent columnist and author, was the daughter of Clara and Andreas Ueland. -
Knud Gunderson Eittreim papers, circa 1818-1874
Military discharge, probate settlement, and other Norwegian legal documents.
Contents- Vaccination certificate
- Pamphlets: "Israels dug og Guds rose," Friedr. Wilh. Krummacher. Stavanger, 1872. 16 p. "Nogle afskedsord af N. Tøsseland, ved hans bortreise fra sine foraeldres hjem." Bergen, n.d., 15 p
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Sigurd Anderson lectures, 1961-1963
A lecture titled "Lawyers in the Civil War," delivered before the Bar Association of the District of Columbia (1961), and an outline of an address, "Whatever Happened to Ole," given before Det Norske Nationalforbund in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1963). Anderson was a member of the Federal Trade Commission and served as Governor of South Dakota from 1950 to 1954.
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- Article: "Lawyers In the War", delivered before the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C. February 14, 1961. Mentions lawyers in the cabinet of Abraham Lincoln, including Edwin M. Stanton, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Senator William Fessenden, Edward Bates, Caleb B. Smith,and Montgomery Blair. Confederate cabinet members who were lawyers included Alexander Stephens, Robert Toombs, Robert M.T. Hunter, Judah P. Benjamin, John C. Breckendridge, Christopher Memminger, Thomas Bragg, Thomas Hill Watts, George Davis, Stephen R. Mallory and John Henninger Reagan. Four lawyers who served in the Union army would later become president, including Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester Arthur and Benjamin Harrison. 7 members of the Supreme Court served in the armed forces during the Civil War - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Stanley Matthews, William B. Woods and John M. Harlan fought for the Union, Edward B. White, Lucius Q.C. Lamar and Horace H Lurton fought in the ranks of the Confederacy.
- Article: "Whatever Happened to Ole?" delivered before Det Norske Nationalforbund i Minneapolis, Minnehaha Park, Minneapolis Minnesota July 14, 1963.
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Carmel Highlands Norwegian Lodge papers, 1956-1963
An article and correspondence concerning an estate "in Norwegian style" near Carmel, California, built 1918-1927 for Mrs. Maude Reynolds.
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Richard Beck papers, 1927-1954, 1976
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Papers, 1927-1954, 1976. Correspondence, clippings, and pamphlets of an Icelandic-born professor of Scandinavian languages and literature at the University of North Dakota.
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- Clippings and pamphlets
- Icelandic literature and government, Olav Haraldsson, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, and Johan Falkberget, K. Hamsun, Gunnar Gunnarsson, Anders Hovden.
- Includes Beck's poem, "Salute to Norway," which was read at a patriotic rally in Grand Forks, North Dakota (April 27, 1942) addressed by H.R.H. Crown Prince Olav…"
- Other published works: "Norway's Martyr-King and Saint" (n.d.); "The Icelandic Millennial Celebration" (n.d.); "Grimur Thomsen--A Pioneer Byron Student" (1928); "Gisli Brynjulfsson--An Icelandic Imitator of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (1929);
- Book Reviews: Idealist and Cynic review of "Seven Days Darkness" by Gunnar Gunnarsson (1931);
- Translation of God and the Soul, by Einar H. Kvaran translated from Icelandic, published in the 1931 Spring Number of the Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota.
- "Iceland's Contribution to World Literature" reprint from the Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota, Spring and Summer 1932-1933.
- "Bjornstjerne Bjorson - Poet and Leader of Men" reprint from the Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota, 1932-1933.
- Grand Forks Herald, "Norwegians Honor Memory of Bjorstjerne Bjornson", December 4, 1932.
- Clipping from the Sons of Norway May 1933, "Professor Richard Beck, en trofast og vel rustet stridsmann for norskdommens sak." in Norwegian.
- Poem "Julekveld" published 22 Dec. 1933 in the Decorah Posten (photocopy).
- "The 17th of May and Norwegian Youth" clipping published in 1934, Grand Forks newspaper (in English).
- "Norway's Day of Days" clipping published May 1934 in Grand Forks Herald.
- "Knut Hamsun, Norwegian Author Still Great at 75 Years", clipping published in Grand Forks Herald July 29, 1934.
- "Our English Language Department", clipping published in the Sønner av Norge, January 1934 in English.
- "En Islænder leder det skandinaviske Arbeide ved Nord Dakota Univ." published 30 June 1935 in Skandinaven in Norwegian.
- "Forfatteren Johan Falkberget" clipping published July 16, 1934 in Norwegian.
- "Iceland's Poet Laureate", The Friend, November 1937 in English.
- "Nord Dakotas Statsuniversitet feirer 55 aars Jubileum", Grand Forks Skandinav, August 19, 1936, in Norwegian.
- "Vigeland og Snorre Sturlason", Grand Forks Skandinav December 23, 1938, in Norwegian.
- "Gunnar Gunnarsson, An Icelandic Master of the Novel", The Friend for December 1939, in English.
- "Johan Falkberget Fyller 60 Aar", Sønner av Norge, December 1939 in Norwegian.
- Correspondence from Dr. Rögnv. Petursson dated 13 December 1939 in Icelandic.
- "Iceland's Poet Laureate [Einar Benediktsson]", Grand Forks Scandinav December 29, 1939 in English.
- "Professor Richard Beck, Fra Fiskergutt til Professor og Doktor i Filosofi", Grand Forks Skandinav, June 7 1940 in Norwegian.
- "Dikterpresten Anders Hovden", Grand Forks Skandinav, December 20, 1940 in Norwegian.
- "Et amerikansk universitet som staar Norge nær..." clipping Normanden, October 28, 1943 in Norwegian.
- "Prominent Sons of Norway Man [T.H.H. Thoresen] with cover letter dated April 17, 1950.
- "Norwegian-American Historical Association Observes 25th Anniversary" published in the School of Education Record October 1950.
- Program, The University of North Dakota Convocation, November 29, 1951. Correspondence, to J. Jergen Thompson of St. Olaf College, dated December 13, 1951.
- Thank you letter.
- "Icelandic Americans" Member of the Month, The American-Scandinavian Foundation, April 1954, Vol III, No. 4.
- "The Lone Eagle", reprint of poem originally published in the Minneapolis Tribune, inspired by Charles Lindbergh's historic non-stop flight across the Atlantic, May 1927.
- "Lincoln in Marble", poem reprinted in the Minn. Posten, Sept. 9, 1976.
- Clippings and pamphlets