Browse Items (2907 total)

• Tamlin S. Holland papers, 1918

  Includes three photocopied letters written while serving in France during WW I.
• Sigvald T. Lillehaugen autobiography, 1924

  Autobiography of Sigvald T. Lillehaugen, transcribed Shirley Lillehaugen Santoro.
• Ida Rygg travel journal, 1967

  Ida Rygg travel journal to Norway. Herman and Ida Rygg lived near Sioux City, Iowa. Includes a few snapshots.
• Eigil Bergendahl diary, 1917

  The diary begins when Bergendahl leaves New York Harbor as a cabin boy on the S.S. Capto. He observes his 16th birthday en route to the Far East. Later in life, Bergendahl went on to a successful ship chandler business in lower Manhattan.
• Tvedt family letters, 1883-1894

  Tvedt Family Letters (585 photocopies, 1883-1894). Correspondence between Johannes Tvedt and two sisters, photocopied clippings from the Skandinaven newspaper regarding the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago, and research regarding artist Norwegian-born sculptor, Kristian Schneider, who was Louis Sullivan's primary modeler. Tvedt apparently lived with Schneider and his wife for some years before returning to Norway.
• Carl O. Paulson papers

  Finding aid coming soon.
• Emma Blagen collection, 1913-1960

  Blagen, Emma L. (1895-1983) Collection. Blagen lived most of her life in Decorah, Iowa. She was employed by John Longstreet Photograph Studio and the Decorah Meritol Co. The collection includes diaries kept between 1934 and 1978, family letters and postcards, 1913-1960s, and 150-plus family photograph negatives (scanned & printed), ca. early 1900s.
• Unidentified collection, 1920-1956

  Collection includes a photograph of an unidentified nursing staff, ca. 1920, 2 Christmas letters, 1949 & 1956, the former recounts her trip to Norway, and an inscribed book, "Norway Calling" (Oslo, Norway: Mittet & Co, ca. 1945).
• Hinderlie-Reinertsen family history, 1994-2003

  Funeral bulletin for Mrs. Camilla Jenson (1911-2005), biographical sketch of Lars Skrefsrud and Bolette Larsen, Norwegian newspaper clipping regarding Bolette Larsen, "About the Trip to America" (author unknown), obituary for Martin Thomas Jenson (1902-1989), "A Norwegian Community in Texas" (Haugesund News, Dec. 27, 1986), "Karmøy's Role in Emigration" by Gerhard Naeseth (1988), "Pastor Christian Hinderlie: The Master Cooper Who Became a Minister Amongst the Norwegian Settlers in America" (1952), biographical sketch of James Jenson Brovold by Lawrence C. Jenson, and autobiography of Rev. Peter Ingbart Reinertsen 1858-1936 (ca. 1931, 82 pages, translated in 1971 by son, Dr. P.D. Reinertsen).
• Margaret Juleen Munson Lee Erickson memories, 1994-2004

  Memories of Margaret Juleen Munson Lee Erickson (1994, with updates thru 2004). Topics covered: telephone party line, quilting, threshing, lefse, harvesting, religion/church, listening to the radio, school, games, berry picking, eggs and candling, taking baths, remedies/sickness, long underwear, reading, ediphone operator, wedding, honeymoon, lutefisk,and Eskimos. Included are several pages of memories of daughter Loretta by others. Obituary: Margaret Juleen Erickson, 91, of Moose Lake died Saturday, June 6, 2009 in Mercy Hospital, Moose Lake. She was born April 25, 1918 in Catawba, Wisconsin to Anton and Josemina (Haugdahl) Munson. Juleen attended high school in Amery, WI and later in St. Paul. Juleen was united in marriage to her first husband, Lorin Lee on October 11, 1941 in St. Paul. They lived in Fargo, St. Paul, Alaska, Richfield and Pine City. Juleen was united in marriage to her second husband, Elmer Erickson on November 27, 1990 in Duluth. Juleen and Elmer lived in Windemere Township."Haugedalen and Pedersen Family History" (ca. 2003), "A Brief Record of the A.T. Munson Family Covering the Years 1904-1923" (ca. 1994). Topics covered: home remedies/accidents, movies, bathing, wedding, pregnancy, scouting, and fruit orchard. Includes letters (1947-1957) from Luther and Lillian Reinertsen, missionaries in South Africa, and "Our Family" by Charles and Clarice Nelson.