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• Brendsil Day book, 1867-1928

  Unknown origin/Clipping scrapbook containing clippings of prominent Norwegian-Americans. itled "Day book" clippings indexed: search Rokke Name Index. Clippings (ranging from 1900-1928) pasted over an account book from Chicago, 1867 (some of these pages are readable).
• Olav K. Lundeberg papers, circa 1920-circa 2000

  Born at Kenyon, Minn., son of the Rev. K.O. Lundeberg (see his Papers, p1371), Lundeberg graduated from St. Olaf College in 1916, served in an Army medic and translator in France during World War I, earned graduate degrees (1923,1928) at the University of Minnesota. He taught Romance languages at Wittenberg College, the Universities of Michigan and Minnesota, and from 1931 until his death at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. "One of his outstanding achievements at Duke was the founding of the Summer School of Spanish Studies in 1942" In addition to his scholarly writings and texts, he wrote two novels published by Augsburg Publishing House: The enchanted valley (1937) and The Story of Aino: a tale of Finland in America (1941). He also wrote many poems. The papers were donated by his son, Dr. Philip K. B. Lundeberg, 200-2001
  
  Box 1:
  Folder 1: Academics, including his wife Vivian J. (Boraas) Lundeberg; folder 2: Photos, family history (two cabinet cards of Erika Nissen and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson); folder 3: Correspondence, including letters from F.M. Christiansen & O.E. Rolvaag; folder 4: University of Michigan, 1919-1920; folder 5: M.A. thesis, Univ. of Minn., 1923. "Charles Colle's "La partie de la chasse de Henri IV and the evolution of its theme. 44 p. typescript; folder 6: Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. of Minn., 1927. "The life and works of Charles Colle, 1709-83. 300 p. typescript.; folder 8: Miscellaneous writings. Article, "Grandmother [Mari Groven, b. 1845] sang for Ole Bull" (Lutheran Herald, Dec. 1926, pp. 1147-48, 1168-70); Notes for 1940 speech: 75th anniversary of Gol church; Notebook: notes on B.J. Muus; notebook: 1946 Minnesota trip; notebook: "Idearium, esquisses, projects, etc., 1941-" 1916 1946; “Holden” Parish. Includes tentative outline and six chapters of an unfinished work, plus two related chapters on Rev. B.J. Muus and Goodhue County, Minnesota.
  
  Box 2:
  1 folder Correspondence, World War I; discharge papers; 1 vol. Memoirs of France and the 88th Division, by E.J.D. Larson. Minneapolis, 1920. 173 p.; 1 vol. Photographs, World War I; 1 vol. The Enchanted Valley (1937), and scrapbook of reviews and correspondence; 1 vol. The Story of Aino (1941), and scrapbook of reviews and correspondence; 1 folder MSS: "There is a season." (title from original folder). Includes several photos found in scrapbook.
  
  Box 3:
  1 folder MSS: Book I, The Old World; Book 2, The New World. (title from folder); 1 folder Duke University School of Spanish Studies, 1942-48. Catalogs, photos; 1 folder 8 vols. Scholarly articles, texts (list at beginning); Donated by his son, Dr. Philip K.B. Lundeberg, 2000-2001. See papers of his father, Olav K. Lundeberg; his grandfathers, Knut O. Lundeberg and Julius Boraas; his uncle Karl Lundeberg; and his son Philip Lundeberg. See the last for relevant correspondence. 1942 1948
  
  Box 4:
  Poems (Mainly typescript). Include St. Olaf College calendars, 1916-18 (1916 and 1918 have poems of O.K.L.); Six sonnets of the Midi by Woodhill (pseudo.), privately published, 1 vol.; "Reverie in dusk's interim," text by O.K.L., music by Elfrieda Lundeberg Farseth (sheet music), article by Eyvind J. Evans published in Minnesota Posten.; added Nov. 8, 2012: photocopied clipping from the Minnesota Posten regarding Olav K. Lundeberg’s World War I wartime poetry, c. 1918. 1918 1940;Short stories manuscripts. Added Nov. 8, 2012: "Old Leaves," "Uncle Clint," "Andalusian Interlude," "Exemplary Novel," "Become Dear to Thee," "The Love of the Maid Maryna," "Woodcutters' Colloquy," and "Johann Bojer: Don Juan Before the Heavenly Judgment Seat" (translated from the Norwegian). Additionally, retrospectives of his wartime experiences in France: "The Tooth," "Bread Upon the Waters," and "Farewell to Arms at Semur,"; Novels (manuscripts). Added Nov. 8, 2012: "Rustic Sonata" and "Jennie Wade", the latter Lundeberg planned to publish as "Death and the Maiden", in the genre of an historical novel, based on wide-ranging research.;Miscellaneous (collected notes and clippings for future writing projects). Added Nov. 8, 2012: Includes notes on World War I experiences; clippings regarding Northfield, Minn., Civil War veteran, Henry Pryor; Doughboy letter from Fay Slocker, Longford, Kansas (dated Aug. 14, 1925); pamphlet "Bremo," a home designed by Thomas Jefferson for General John Hartwell Cocke; and an obituary (Feb. 23, 1936), Maj. W.T. Redmond, civil War veteran; added Jan. 8, 2013: manuscript, “The Enchanted Farmstead”; photocopied article, “Mosby’s Men Thundered Through Upperville” (The South Atlantic Quarterly, July 1937); and “What is Ceceo? Inquiry and Proposal” (reprinted from Hispania, Aug. 1947).; Correspondence with publishers.
• Christian Nielsen history, 1873-1927

  Xerox copy of typewritten history, "Halvfems aar i Chicagos Danske Koloni, 1837 - 1927." 114 p. Xerox copy of newspaper article (unidentified), "Lidt om Mors og Morsingboere i Chicago." 4 p.
• Scandinavian Fraternity of America papers, 1907-1974

  Papers of a mutual benefit society, originally called the Skandinaviske Forbund af America. Volume: Harald Lodge no. 84 (Rockford, Illinois) Record book. 1 v. Includes list of members 1907-09, with address, date of joining, in some cases place and date of birth. Where place of birth is given, it is Sweden. Also includes trustees reports 1914-73, and bank books, 1959-71. 1907-1973 Volumes: Norway Lodge no. 265 (Rockford, Illinois) Protokoll (1927 - 1944). 2 v. Cashbook (1927 - 1964) 1 v. The first includes lists of members with dates of birth, addresses, dates of joining and of cancellation of membership. 1927-1964 Miscellaneous papers. Includes insurance policy, Harald Lodge, 1971, membership certificate and contract, Ernest A. Axelson, petition for probate, Axelson, quarterly interest notes, receipts, district lodge no. 6: appointments and proceedings of 1950 meeting, proceedings of 49th annual convention (1957), proceedings and officer's reports to the 64th annual convention (1972). 1950-1974
• John Karl Daniels collection, 1913-1958

  About the work of the noted Minnesota sculptor, born Nordland, who emigrated with his family in 1884. His best-known works are: statue of Senator Knute Nelson on the capitol grounds, St. Paul (1928); the Pioneer Square monument (Mpls) (1936); the Leif Erikson statue (1949) also on the capitol grounds. A copy of the last was installed in Duluth in 1956. Also: the buffalo in front of the former North American Life Insurance Building near the Walker Art Center, Mpls.; a portrait bust of Dr. William Mayo at the Univ. of Minnesota; a statue of Washington in Austin, Minn. (1937); statues of General John B. Sanborn and Col. Alexander Wilkin in the rotunda of the capitol; a Spanish-American war monument in Grafton, ND; Civil War monuments (copies in Andersonville, Georgia; Memphis, Tenn.; Little Rock, Ark.). He also worked on various projects with Frank Lloyd Wright.
  
  Clippings (original and photocopy), June 23, 1913-July 31, 1958. The collection includes a letter (Feb. 10, 1916) to John Mohn of Northfield thanking him for an article Mohn had written and inquiring quote (about the movement on foot to erect a statue of St. Olaf on the campus of St. Olaf College.) Some clipping titles include: Work Proceeds on Statue to Honor Memory of Senator Knute Nelson (May 2, 1928); Statue Depicting Pioneer Heroism Is Nearly Ready (Aug. 29, 1936); City Gets Preview of Ericson Statue (New York Times, May 4, 1949); No Leggings for Leif Ericsson? (The Minneapolis Star, May 13, 1949); 17de Mai 1814-1949 Minneapolis Posten Supplement, with photo of Leif Erikson statue on cover (May 13, 1949); Division Of Germany, with section about Leif Erikson, A Symbol (St. Paul Pioneer Press, Oct. 8, 1949); Statue of Leif Erikson Unveiled at State Capitol (Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, Oct. 10, 1949). One clipping gives Daniels' view on the Kensington Runestone.
  
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  Andreas L. Dahl collection, 1871-1917
  

  Biography/History: 
  Andreas Larsen Dahl was born in Skrautvall, Valdres, Norway. Dahl emigrated in 1869, joining an older brother in DeForest, Dane County, Wisconsin. From 1873 until his ordination in 1883 he worked as a traveling photographer in southern Wisconsin and in Iowa, providing an invaluable picture of life at that time.

  Dahl made more than 1,200 images of people, towns, and landscapes primarily in Dane County. His photographs illustrate the development of Dane County and the growth of many of its towns and villages, including Madison, Mazomanie, and Middleton, as well as rural farm life in the county. Dahl also photographed families, including many Norwegian, Swedish, and other immigrants, in front of their homes and farms, often with their most prized possessions. The negatives are held at the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison, Wisconsin.

  Scope and Content: 
  Collection of stereographs and photographs captured by Andreas L. Dahl.

  Digital collections available online here.
• Søren Bache diary, 1839-1947

  A copy of the diary which Bache kept during his visits to America, 1839-1947; a transcription by Andreas Elviken; issues of Norsk Ungdom, December 1927-April 1929, in which portions of the diary was first printed; and photographs of Bache and his wife and of Bache's cabin at Muskego. The NAHA published a translation of the diary in 1951 as A Chronicle of Old Muskego. The published book omits "certain materials that Bache obviously copied from manuals and other sources that fell into his hands; letters transcribed on pages 1-4; and the portion of the diary (pages 196-206) after Bache's departure from America." It includes as an appendix the passenger list of the Johanna, on which Bache returned after a visit home.
  
  

  • Et Memorandum: 1839, June 28 - 1846, Dec. 5. Includes (loose): original diary
  • Transcription, Part 1, Bache Diary, Chronicle of Old Muskego, 1951. Includes pp. 1-177 of transcription.
  • Transcription, Part 2, Bache Diary, Chronicle of Old Muskego, 1951. Includes pp. 178-358 of transcription, plus 7 pp. of information transcribed from the back of the M.S.
  • Photographs, Issues of Norsk Ungdom. Includes: 2 sets of pp. 185-187, removed from Norsk Ungdom (December 1927), entitled Sören Baches dagboksoptegnelser: under sit ophold i Amerika…; monthly issues of Norsk Ungdom (Jan. 1928-Apr. 1929); photographs (3) of Bache, his wife, and his cabin; newspaper clipping entitled Søren Baches Plads i vor historie (Dec. 25, 1927).
• Local history collection

  A continuing file for newspaper clippings and other materials which describe specific communities where Norwegians settled. References to similar accounts found in other collections are added as they are identified.
• Thorstein Veblen clippings and articles, 1920-2005

  The clippings from newspapers and periodicals (1906-1993) include articles by Lyder L. Undstad: "Thorstein Veblen som Nordmand," "Veblen, Marx, klassekamp og filosofi," and "The Man and his Socio-economic Ideas." In addition are articles by Abram L. Harris, Ernest W. Dewy, David L. Miller, Carlton C. Qualey, Paul David Eastwood, Russel Bartley, and Sylvia Yoneda. For related material, see collectons of his siblings Andrew A. Veblen (P 598) and Emily Veblen Olsen (P 571). Max Lerner called Thorstein Veblen "the most creative mind American social thought has produced." Veblen was born near Manitowoc, Wisconsin, of parents who emigrated from Vang, Valdres, in 1847. In 1865 the family moved to a farm less than one mile north of Nerstrand, Minnesota. This home has been restored.
  
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  • 2 books: Veblen, Thorstein, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (New York: The Modern Library, 1934); Dowd, Douglas, Thorstein Veblen (New York: Washington Square Press, Inc., 1964). Also includes Veblen Collections at Carleton College: Introduction and Overview, by Eric Hillemann, archivist, 19 pp. (ca.1997): Thorstein B. Veblen Collection, Veblen Family Collection, Veblen Farmstead Collection, Records of the International Thorstein Veblen Association. Also includes 2 copies of Veblen in Perspective: The Intellectual Heritage of a Native Son, September 24, 1994, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. Contents include: Program and Reading Materials, including photocopies of Carlton C. Qualey, Thorstein Bunde Veblen, 1857-1929, from Makers of an American Immigrant Legacy: Essays in Honor of Kenneth O. Bjork (NAHA, 1980); sections of The Portable Veblen (Viking Press, 1948); Veblen's The Russell Bartley and Sylvia Yoneda, Thorstein Veblen on Washington Island from International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society (Summer 1994).
  • Articles, 1953-
    • Includes: Harris, Abram L., Veblen as Social Philosopher -- A Reappraisal, in Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy Vol. LXIII, No.3, Part II (University of Chicago Press, April 1953), pp. 1-32 (article includes following note: This essay will appear substantially as a part of a chapter in the forthcoming book, Economic Theory and Social Reforms, to be published by Harper & Bros.); Dewey, Ernest W. and David L. Miller, Veblen's Naturalism versus Marxian Materialism, reprinted from The Southwestern Social Science Quarterly (September, 1954), pp. 165-174; Dewey, Ernest W., Thorstein Veblen, Radical Apologist for Conservatism, reprinted from The American Journal of Economics and Sociology Vol.18, No.2 (January, 1959), pp. 171-180, signed quote(With warmest regards, Ernest W. Dewey); Brodersen, Arvid, Industrialisering og samfunnsform, A propos en bok av Thorstein Veblen; 2 copies of The Carleton Voice (Fall 1980), featuring Veblen, with articles on Veblen (Thorstein Veblen, 100 Years Later; Thorstein Veblen, The Last Man Who Knew Everything, --Veblen and Women, --Veblen and Teaching, --Veblen and His Alma Mater, --His Place in History, --In His Own Words); programs for Veblen in Perspective: The Intellectual Heritage of a Native Son, A Symposium and Exhibition at St. Olaf & Carleton Colleges (September 24, 1994); Eastwood, Paul David, Seeking Thorstein Veblen, Presented to the Ygdrasil Literary Society, Madison, WI on October 10, 1992, 19 pp.; photocopy of notice in the Missouri Book News about publication of Dreiser and Veblen, Saboteurs of the Status Quo (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press), including summary of the work; photocopy of Audrey Wendland, Outcast Genius: Shy Norwegian-American left mark on social thought, in Viking (February 1996), pp. 18, 33; slightly edited version of The Early Life of Thorstein Veblen, a paper, by Prof. J. F. Balzer of Carleton College, which he read to the Rice County Historical Society in 1936, published in The Rice County Historian Vol. 25, No.2 (March 1999); photocopy of Grennes, Thomas and Einar Kvam, Thorstein Bunde Veblen and his family: Valdres to America, in Budstikken (December 2000). File also includes: a reprint of a photograph of Veblen, with verso marked Carlton C. Qualey, 100 Nevada St., Northfield, Minn. 55057; enlarged reproduction of photograph of Veblen.
  • Clippings (1906-1993)
    • Includes: Literatur: An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation, Minneapolis Sondag Tidende (May 27, 1917); Present Course of Business Enterprise in an Analysis: Thorstein Veblen on Absentee Ownership--The Cooperative Movement in Russia, by William MacDonald, The New York Times Book Review (Apr. 13, 1924); Veblen, Marx, Klassekamg og Filosofi, by Lyder L. Unstad, Minneapolis Tidende (Apr. 13, 1933); Thorstein Veblen som nordmand, by Lyder L. Unstad, Minneapolis Tidende (Feb. 14, 1935); An Analyst of Modern Society: In Thorstein Veblen and His America Mr. [Joseph] Dorfman Writes the Life Of a Thinker Who Has Had Great Influence, by R. L. Duffus, The New York Times Book Review; Thorstein Veblen's Social Vision: A Collection of His Essays, Clear and Penetrating in Their Ideas, Which Proves Him to Have Been at Times Prophetic, by R. L. Duffus, The New York Times Book Review (Sept. 30, 1934); Thorstein Veblen: The Man and His Socio-Economic Ideas, by Lyder Unstad, Nordisk Tidende (Jan. 31, 1933); The Grandfather of Technocracy, The Milwaukee Journal (Mar. 22, 1935); More Reflections, by Junius (Jun. 29, 1945); Trip of the Week: Washington Island: To the Edge Of the Map (Veblen quote(spent his summers and wrote the rought [sic] draft of some of his monumental treatises) on Washington Island) (Jul. 16, 1964); photocopy of The Genius Was a Jerk, by Robert A. McCaughey, The New York Times Book Review (Feb. 7, 1993); Thorstein Veblen and the New Barbarians: A cranky Minnesotan coins an economic term for the ages, by Peter Ritter, in The Rake Vol. 3, Issue 36 (Feb. 2005). File also includes clippings of obituaries for Veblen.
• Norris Olson obituary collection, 1896-1963

  Approximately 100 manuscript obituaries and a few memorial leaflets, evidently submitted to a Menomonie, Wisconsin, newspaper, but in Dr. Norris Olson's file, which were forwarded to NAHA after his death in Illinois in 1963. The obituaries precede 1951, and most, but not all, bear Norwegian names.