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Biography, clippings, correspondence, scrapbooks, and pictures dealing with the career of a Norwegian-born artist. Educated in Norway, Belgium, and Paris, Sønnichsen emigrated in 1904. His best known works are his picture panels in the New Brunswick (Canada) church windows, his portraits of Roald Amundsen and Ole Bull, the murals in Seattle's Norway House, and his Alaska landscapes. He is a brother of architect S. Engelhart Sønnichsen.
Papers of a Norwegian-born Lutheran clergyman: a memorial article by John O. Hougen (25 leaves manuscript) and transl. By L.A. Mathre, 1966 (20 leaves), Hoyme's President's Report to the Conference of the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1888 (61 leaves manuscript), clippings regarding his death, and notebooks. Hoyme was president of the Conference (1886-1890) and of the United Lutheran Church (1890-1902). Includes: 1 autograph book, 1878-1888, with entries by his wife, Carl J.Helsem, Ole 0. Hanstad, Sven R. Gunnersen, John Blegen, Peder Olson, Kristofer Janson, A.L. Underthun, A. Jensen, J.H. Grøtheim, L. Lund, O.H. Stenson. 1 notebook: Gisle Johnson's lectures on dogmatics 1 notebook: Gisle Johnson's lectures on "den nyere theologies historie" 1850 1 notebook: Gisle Johnson's "det paulinske lærebegreb" 1851 1 notebook: Grimelund'sliturgik og homiletik 1 notebook: "Nodebog for Ole Olson Næsset, Tromsø Seminarium 1863" (music)
Unpublished manuscripts of a Norwegian-born Lutheran clergyman: the first, a drama titled "Pastor Brown," deals with the problem of building a church in a pioneer Minnesota congregation made up of conflicting groups. The second (unfinished), titled "A Norseman in the Melting Pot," recounts the experiences of a young Norwegian immigrant in Chicago and the Fox River settlement and his visit to the homeland after nine years in America.
Papers of the editor and publisher of the "Story City Herald," Story City, Iowa, a 5-page typescript biography and three booklets on local history. Includes: "Panorama of Forty Three Years as a Country Editor. Historical Supplement Story City Herald. April 8, 1948", "Supplement Oct. 24, 1940. The Story City Herald Anniversary Number A quintuplet Celebration. 1940", Story City Jubilee Book. Golden Anniversary Book of Story City (1931), "Story City, Iowa," by Paul a. Olson (1952).
Two reels of microfilm of passenger lists of vessels arriving at New York, June 19-August 31, 1844, and June 2-July 15, 1845, together with a typewritten transcript of the Norwegian portions of these films compiled by Naeseth. The roster of over 1,000 names also includes the names of ships, sailing dates, and the ages and occupations of the immigrants. Reprints from "Norsk Slektshistorisk Tidsskrift" of "Nordmenn i De Forenede Stater," and from "The Norseman," and "In Search of the Past," a description of Vesterheim Genealogical Center.
Bjørn in the New World, an unpublished immigrant story, by a former teacher, banker, and insurance broker who emigrated in 1906 from Ulvik, Hardangers, Norway. Resident of Quartz Hill, California.
