North Dakota]]> Cass County (N.D.)]]> Wisconsin]]> Mandt, Gunnar Torjeson]]> Stoughton Wagon Company]]> Mandt, Torger G.]]> Mandt, Tilla]]> Mandt, Clara]]> Mandt, Torgeir]]> Holland, Erik S.]]> Rasmussen, Peter A.]]> llinois]]> Lisbon (Ill.)]]> Minnesota]]> Hamre, Henry B.]]> Northfield (Minn.)]]> Hamre, Henry]]> Eielsen, Elling]]> Johnsen, Jens]]> Haugene, Niels C.]]> Oterholt, Ole Olsen]]> Flood, Inger L.]]> California]]> Leif Erikson]]> Ousdal, Asbjørn P.]]> Biography/History: 
Papers of a Asbjørn Ousdal, a Norwegian-born osteopathic physician and surgeon of Santa Barbara, California. 

Scope and Content: 
The clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, and pictures, including "Vinland Saga" (1937) by Ousdal, deal with the founding of Norroenn Federation of America and its promotion of Leif Erikson Day. They deal also with Ousdal's fossil museum, including his collection of fossil whales rated as matchless by the Smithsonian Institute. Ousdal is the author also of 'Our Revolting Society' (1945) and of several monographs on paleontological subjects. He made translations of Sanskrit and Old Norse into English and invented the Solar-Ray.

]]> Ousdal, Asbjørn]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> Anderson, Rasmus Bjørn]]> Janson, Kristofer]]> South Dakota]]> Wisconsin]]> Luther College (Decorah, Iowa)]]> Kostveit, Halvor]]> Stephens, Olaf B. (Hustvedt)]]> Larsen, Laur (Peter Laurentius)]]> Stephens, Olaf B.]]> ]]> Nilsen, Ole]]> Chicago (Ill.)]]> Illinois]]> Norske Dramatiske Forening i Chicago]]> Blizzards]]> Norwegian Lutheran Church of America]]> Monona Academy]]> Bull, Ole, 1810-1880]]> Jensvold, Gulbrand]]> Dahle, Onon Bjørnsen]]> Jacobson, Abraham]]> Einung, H. H.]]> Fjeld, John N.]]> Jacobson, Clara]]> Breda, Olaus Jensen]]> Childhood Memories (42 p. typescript) of reminiscences of childhood days spent in the Perry parsonage, western Dane County, Wisconsin, by a daughter of Abraham Jacobson, Lutheran parish pastor from 1868 to 1878. Written in informal style, Childhood Memories gives a glowing, detailed account of church, school, books, music, dress, entertainment, trips, playmates, guests, parsonage, garden and household and farm employees. There is special mention made of Olaus Jensen Breda, Ole Bull, Aanund B. Dahle, John N. Fjeld, Gulbrand Jensvold, Monona Academy, and the devastating tornado of 1878. Also includes a scrapbook of clippings of her writings from Decorah-Posten and Reform. Also, letters from H.H. Einung, 1928 - 1931 (Rjukan). Clara Jacobson was a teacher and author. See Memories from Perry Parsonage, Norwegian American Studies and Records, 14:139-158.

Scrapbook, Includes "Minder fra Barndomsdagene."; "Svundne Dage."; "Gamle Billeder."; "Smaa reiser og Besøg fra vor Barndomstid."; "Minder fra den norske Skole."; "Et Skjaertorsdags-Minde."; "Minder fra Mors Barndomshjem i Norge of fra Pioneerdagene i Amerika." (partial translation, 5 p.); "Nye og gamle Minder."; "Barndomsminder."; "Fra Svoudne Dage."; "Barndomsminder."; "Minder fra Perry Prestegaard."; "Gamle Minder."; "Minder."; "Lidt om Monona Academy, Madison, Wis."; "Lidt Pionerhistorie."; "Fra Bedstemors Ungdom."; "Gamle Anekdoter."; "Fra Mors unge Dage."; "Lide om Ole Bull og hans Liv."; "Gamle Minder om en Blizzard" (1888); "Prestegaardsliv; en Kulturinstitution i Norge og det norske Amerika." Dates 1920 - 1941, mostly 'Reform', some 'Decorah-Posten'. Includes postcard (February 19th, 1941 to Waldemar Ager) and memorial leaflet for Clara.

Writings and Correspondence, includes "Et Skrift for Norske Paa Begge Sider av Havet", Symra, 1913. Most other items undated.]]> Jacobson, Clara, 1887-]]>