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• Halvor O. Sageng bochures, 1910-1912

  Brochures and clippings concerning the Sageng combination gasoline engine thresher, invented by Sageng in 1908.
• Martin Bronn Ruud papers, 1837-1935

  The Second Generation, by a professor of English at the University of Minnesota. Comments on the death of Minneapolis Tidende and the need for Norwegian Americans to preserve their cultural heritage, 1935, 2 typescript pages, eight clippings about Ruud, among them are a review of "Norwegian Emigrant Songs and Ballads", which Ruud edited with Theodore C. Blegen, a copy of his lecture given on the 1940 WLB radio series "Arts and Letters of Scandinavia," and an obituary. Includes: "The Second Generation." Published in "Signalfires," May 1935, newsletter of the Emergency Education Division, E.R.A., State of Minnesota Department of Education. "Norwegian Emigrant Songs and Ballads, manuscript, Norwegian and Emigrant Songs."
• Poems, 1840-1952

  Poems in manuscript and print by several authors, including Andreas Bersage, Ulrikka F. Bruun, Christian O. Brufoldt, Borghild Dahl, Kristofer Dalager, Rolf Fjelde, Gunda Thykesen Fugleberg, C. Gundesen, Bernard H.J. Habel, Bjarne Hagmann, L.B. Henning Hommefoss, Olaf Holen, Tarkjel Landsverk, N.M. Minne, John Mortenson, Nils J. Njus, H.G. Odden, August Olsen, Gideon J. Olsen, Johan Ovren, Palma Pederson, Wilhelm Petterson, Olaf Refsdahl, Detlef G. Ristad, Ola P. Rise, Soren Roinestad, B.J. Rothnem, J.O. Saeter, Harald Schmidt, T.K. Skov, O.S. Sneve, Carl K. Solberg, Oscar J. Sorlie, Oscar Strømme, Edward Søvik, Erik A. Travaas, Reier Knudson Ulen, Henrik Voldal, Karl H. Xavier, Oscar O. Ødegaard.
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  Norwegian National League (Chicago) records, 1899-1984

  Programs and reports of a Norwegian organization founded in Chicago in 1899 to unite all Norwegian societies in order to assist needy Norwegians and support all major projects of such groups as were not controlled by church, corporations, or political parties.
• Jacob A. Nelson papers, 1933-1939

  John Hanson and the National Domain (22 typescript pages) by an Iowa attorney, and brochures announcing the publication of Nelson's book, "John Hanson and the Inseparable Union" (1939). John Hanson was "President of the United States in Congress Assembled" (1781-1782).
• Mons Samuel (Monssini) Baker papers, undated

  Publications of a Minneapolis railroad machinist who emigrated from Voss in 1859 as Mons Sjurson Bakkethun, eventually settling in Goodhue County, Minnesota. He received a preacher's license from Yale University in 1878, an M. A. from Carleton College in 1879. He was active as a singer in Minneapolis late in the last century. He wrote and published poems in Norwegian and English, often meant to be sung to familiar tunes, and tracts expressing his socialist beliefs. "Strilevisen-Fiskevisen" (32 pages) includes poems linked by autobiography, "Monsinnis lille katekismus" (32 pages) states his economic beliefs in catechismal format. He published six "Monssinian Cards" on similar themes. His father, Sjur Monsen Bakkethun (1806-1866) emigrated from Haugesund 1858 to Long Prairie, Ill. In 1861 to Leon Township, Goodhue Co., Minn.
• Ole A. Myrvik history, 1933, 1949

  Family and church histories prepared by Myrvik, a farmer born in North Dakota of Norwegian parents. The family history gives an account of the 1869 journey from Hemnes, Nordland, by way of Bergen & Montreal to Minnesota, eventually to Cabalier Co., North Dakota. Includes comments on travel by covered wagon, land sharks, snowstorms, diseases, schools, and prices of commodities and crops. The history of Stefanus (St. Stephen) Lutheran Church, Milton, North Dakota (1883-1933), includes the names of the founders and ministers and a history of the auxiliary societies.
• Christian J. Muri biography, circa 1939

  An autobiographical sketch of a Montana rancher. Born on the Muri farm, Innvik, Nordfjord, he emigrated 1893 to North Dakota, moved next year to Montana, settling near Harlow (Wheatland Co.)
• Ludwig Motzfeldt clippings, 1908-1934

  Clippings providing information about Motzfeldt who emigrated to Chicago about 1872. He established a trading post in Forest County, Wisconsin, and married a Chippewa woman. Included is a 3-page biographical statement about Ketil Johnsen Melstad Motzfeldt (1908). Motzfeldt died while living at Odanah, on the Bad River Indian reservation, Langlade Co., Wis. In one clipping, D.G. Ristad tells of the family in Norway.
• Mons H. Fladager correspondence, 1859-1905
  

  Letters received by Fladager at Spring Grove, Minnesota, from his brother, Ole H. in Christiania and Rome, from an unidentified correspondent at Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, and from a son, Henry. Ole H. was a sculptor. Also, photocopy of letter written July 26, 1905 by his son, Henry (who had a clothing store in Srping Grove, MN) to "soskende barn Henrik." Contents: Mons H. Fladager Correspondence. Also, photocopy of letter written July 26, 1905 by his son, Henry (who had a clothing store in Srping Grove, MN) to "soskende barn Henrik."
  
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