]]> Papers, photographs, and manuscripts belonging to Ruth Langland Holberg. Her grandfather was Knut Langeland, a prominent pioneer Norwegian-American journalist, who was the editor first of Nordlyset and later of the influential Chicago newspaper Skandinaven. Her other grandfather was Isak Nielsen, born Skien 1832, captain of Great Lakes boats.

Includes:

Pen and ink drawing, possibly an illustration for one of Ruth's books.
Photographs, Aunts. 4 portraits of Jeanette Nelson, Minnie Nelson Smith and daughter Lillian, Thea Dahle Langeland; studios include Bishop Bro, Minneapolis; Comber, Milwaukee; Hagendorff, Milwaukee; Voigt, Milwaukee.
Photographs, Lydia Nelson Eidemiller. 9 portraits of Lydia Nelson Eidemiller, her husband, and son Howard. Studios include Bishop Bro, Minneapolis; Wollensak, Milwaukee; Sutter, Milwaukee; A.N. Ovsans, Minneapolis; J.A. Brush, Minneapolis.
Photographs, Malinda Langland Brimble. 3 portraits. Studios include Wollensak, Milwaukee; Armstrong, Milwaukee.
Photographs, Benjamin Langland and James Langland. 4 portraits; newspaper clippings. Studios include Hugo Broich, Milwaukee; Max Platz, Chicago; Heartley, Chicago; L.M. Bell, Washington, D.C.
Photographs, Richard Holberg. 3 photographs and portraits. Studios include Guttenstein, Milwaukee; National Cyclopedia of American Biography, James T. White & Company, New York.
Photographs, Mildred Langland. 14 photographs and portraits. Studios include Armstrongs, Milwaukee; A.M. Opsans, Minneapolis; Thomas, Milwaukee; Sandor, Milwaukee; Krosse; A.E. Lange.
Photographs, Ruth Holberg. 21 photographs and portraits. Studios include Armstrongs, Milwaukee; Wollensak, Milwaukee; Peter A. Juley and Son, New York
Photographs, James Leroy Langland. 5 photographs and portraits. Studios include Armstrong, Milwaukee; Wollensak, Milwaukee. Also includes one "The Chiropody Record" newsletter, dedicated to the late editor, Mr. J. Leroy Langland.
Photographs, Ida Nelson Langland and her parents. 10 photographs and portraits. Studios include Armstrong, Milwaukee; La Tour, Chicago; Brouch, Milwaukee; Hagendorff, Milwaukee; Bishop Bro, Minneapolis.
Photographs, Knud Langland, his wife, and their home. 5 photographs and portraits. Studios include Armstrong, Milwaukee; Melander, Chicago; Hagendorff, Milwaukee.
Papers. Includes biographical notes with transcription, and a manuscript, "Musings." The notes also include a bibliography of the 40 children's books which were written by Mrs. Holberg.
Inventory of photos.
Photographs, Charles K. Langeland. 9 photos and portraits. Studios include Klein and Guttenstein, Milwaukee; Robinson and Roe, Chicago.

]]> Holberg, Ruth Langland, 1889-1984]]> Papers (chiefly personal) of a Norwegian-born attorney who came to the United States in 1907 and began service with the Norwegian Consulate in Chicago in 1909. He was appointed Consul General in 1920 and held that post until his death in 1936. In 1931 he was decorated by the King of Norway with the Royal Order of St. Olaf.

Includes:

Scrapbook, includes many articles and photographs of various royal families of Europe. (dates unknown)
Correspondence, Eldrid and Norma Bernts (daughters), 1926-1966
Correspondence, Mrs. Nora Petersen Bernts, 1935-1963
Photographs. Includes photo of Bernts presenting Jane Addams with the Nobel Peace Prize (1931).
Newspaper clippings from both English and Norwegian papers (mostly Norwegian), for the most part articles which reference to Bernts, 1913-1935
Correspondence, some in English, some in Norwegian. Includes birth certificate of Bernts' daughter Eldrid Martha Bernts, 1904-1955
Documents, pertaining to Bernts' education and appointment. Includes diplomas; certificate declaring Bernts' Vice Consulship (1916); a Membership List of the Consular Corps of Chicago (1931); document awarding the order of St. Olaf to Bernts (1931).
Personal Documents, 1828-1871

]]> Bernts, Olaf]]> Olsen, A.]]> Skaar, J.]]> Hvalbye, O.]]> Jensenius, O.]]> Johnson, Johannes, 1864-1916]]> Meeg, M. J.]]> Nilsen, Karoline]]> Olson, Th.]]> Tunem, A.]]> Zefaniary]]> Steen, Valborg]]> Madagascar]]> Minne, Nils Monson]]> Halvorson, Peter C.]]> Nordsletten, Ole P.]]> Borchgrevink, Chr. D.]]> Bjelde, Peter A.]]> Bjelde, Peter Andreassen]]> Stolee, Micharl J.]]> Olsen, A.]]> Luther College (Decorah, Iowa)]]> Expedition from Christiana printed in commemoration of the 100th anniversary, Alfred Collett Siewers, born July, 1871, by Karl Siewers. 3 mimeographed copies; a collection of translated letters, biographical data, photographs, facsimiles. Letters center around Lyder Siewers and his wife Thrine Brandt Siewers who came in 1868 to Decorah, Iowa where he taught at Luther College (1863 - 1877) and was later an editor at Decorah-Posten (1877 - 1907). Mrs. Siewers made three trips to Norway and died there in 1908. A sister, Adda Siewers, accompanied the pair to Decorah. The trio moved to a farm beside a spring outside Decorah. The farm was later owned by members of the Hjelle family, relatives in the Brandt line. The spring is called Siewers Spring, and is the location of an Iowa State Fish Hatchery.

Includes:

3 copies of "Expedition from Christiania" printed in commemoration of the 100th anniversary, Alfred Collett Siewers, born July, 1871, by Karl Siewers; a sequel to "Expedition from Christiana' which contains brief 1992 reviews of the Siewer and Brandt families as well as miscellaneous letters, documents, and information that were not included in 'Expedition'; Harold Haarfagre Chart, thirty-eight generations of a Norwegian family (including eleven generations of the Siewers family); "Far Flung Norwegian Families: Siewers/Brandt, volume II: The Past" by Karl Siewers, 1992. 154 p.
Items used at the Chicago Sesquicentennial Exhibit; Harold Haarfagre Chart: thirty-eight generations of a Norwegian family (including eleven generations of the Siewers family); photocopies of title pages of books owned by Lyder Siewers, and information about Alfred Collett (1840 - 1870) who was a close friend.

]]> Siewers, Karl]]> Diary of an emigrant from Stavanger, beginning April 15, 1882, the day he boarded ship for the journey to America. There is a day-by-day account of the journey which brought him to Grandin in Dakota Territory. He records his early experiences very completely with data on weather, expenses, letters, church attendance, visits, friends and his work. On December 31 of each year there is a complete accounting of the year's earnings and expenditures. He found work in the Fargo-Moorhead area as a blacksmith, on the railroad and at various other kinds of labor. In October 1882 he homesteaded 160 acres of land in Sargent County, North Dakota.

He spent some time there each year, but left occasionally to earn money at jobs near Fargo and also with the threshing crews on the Dakota farms. In the winter of 1888 he made a trip to Norway with the intention of staying, but he met and married Olena Haaland, changed his plans, and returned to America with her. She worked for a few months in Michigan and in the Odland's neighborhood before settling down on the claim in North Dakota. At the end of the year 1888 there is a four-page account of family history and an eight-page account of his travels.

After his marriage, Gunder made fewer entries and much briefer year-end accounting. He recorded the birth of each of his children: Mary, 1890, Theodore, 1892, Ellen, 1893, Edward, 1895, Clara, 1898, twins Albert and Lena, 1900 (Albert died), Anna, 1906. In 1892 the family moved to Eagle Bend, Minnesota, where Gunder had purchased 65 acres of land. A statement on the fly leaf of the diary in Gunder's hand is dated Eagle Bend, September 9, 1914. Here and there pages have been cut out of the diary. At the end of the book there are pages with recipes for making wine and beer, instructions for the care of cattle, and for raising crops.

An interesting feature of the diary is the inter-mixing of English expressions with the Norwegian, indicative of the gradual Americanization process. Some of the expressions have been noted on a separate page which together with other notes on the diary are included in the file.]]> Odland, Gunder]]> Norwegian]]> Chicago (Ill.)]]> Biørn, Emil]]> Minnesota]]> Wist, Johs B.]]> Shipstead, Henrik, 1881-1960]]> Nestos, Ragnvald A.]]> Reque, Dikka]]> Prestgard, Kristian, 1866-1946]]> Gundersen, Adolf]]> Magelssen, Jacob W.]]> Gjerset, Knut, 1865-1936]]> Magelssen, Thora]]> Rølvaag, O. E. (Ole Edvart), 1876-1931]]> Magelssen, Thora]]> Quakers]]> Jones, Louis Thomas]]> Stavanger Friends Meeting]]> Jackson, Jens Hanson]]> Olson, Iver]]> Stangeland, Helen]]> Fink, Deborah]]> Jansen, Anne Emilie]]> Marshall County (Iowa)]]> Meidel, Christopher]]> Cox, John]]> Bedell, L. Frank]]> Stavanger Boarding School]]> Cadbury, Henry J.]]>