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• Paulson family papers, 2001

  Paulson family reunion document from La Crosse, Wisconsin, July 6-8, 2001.
• Laura M. Gjerde article, 2018

  An article by Hilde Petra Brugot on Laura Marie Gjerde. "Laura Marie Gjerde (1886-1878): A women who spend her life on three contintents with roots and close ties in Gjerdsvika (Sande municipality, More og Romsdal county)."
• Erik F. Storlie collection, 2013

  Go Deet and Take Plenty of Root: A Prairie-Norwegian Father, Rebellion in Minneapolis, Basement Zen, Growing Up, Growing Tender (2013, self-published). 286-page softbound volume. Reviewer Michael Dennis Browne, writes: “In Erik Storlie’s superbly detailed and touching memoir, we see how, by way of many tensions with both parents, and by an evolving liberating attention to their veiled individuality…he gains insights into their hidden natures and comes to an awareness of what he calls at one point ‘sorrow beyond my fathoming.’” The book touches on Storlie family history in eastern South Dakota.
• Claus and christine Krantz family history, 2003

  Claus and Christine: A Double Biography. The Story of Our Parents, Americans from Scandinavia (2013, self-published) by Gordon and Carol Krantz. Christine Mickelson (1885–1956) was born in Hadeland, Norway, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1901. Her family settled in Red Wing, Minnesota, where she found work as a maid and cook. Claus Henning Krantz (1882–1945), born in Småland, Sweden, immigrated to the U.S. in 1900. He also settled near Red Wing and worked as a woodworker. They were married in June 1908 and had five children. In 1927, the family moved to a small farm near Red Wing. The book includes many anecdotes about life on the farm during the Depression.
• Norwegian-Canadian periodical publications, 1973

  Correspondence sent from the University of Calgary's Research Center for Canadian Ethnic Studies. Includes a listing of Norwegian-Canadian creative writing authors, listing of book imprints of Norwegian-Canadian creative literature.
• Hans-Petter Grav dissertation, 2018

  Vesterheim in Red, White, and Blue: The Hyphenated Norwegian-American and Regional Identity in the Pacific Northwest, 1890–1950 (Dissertation, Washington State University, 2018). 291-page unbound volume. Chapters include: “Norwegian Migrants and the Promise of a New Scandinavia”, “Race, Whiteness, and Nationalism Among Norwegian Americans”, “Seattle’s Celebration of the Norwegian Constitution Day”, “The Multorporean Birdmen and the Slat-Riders of the 1930s”, and “Marie Vognild Lund, Dorthea Dahl, and August Werner: the Art of Norwegian-American Cultural Creation.”
• Lois Rand journal, 1979 September-1981 December

  A detailed daily journal kept by Lois Rand while her spouse, Sidney Anders Rand, served as the U.S. Ambassador to Norway, 1980–1981. She writes, “I was sure we would want to remember the process and the people involved if Sidney’s appointment actually came to pass, and I was equally sure we wouldn’t unless we had some help. So I began making notes of people, events, and anything noteworthy so we could remember.”
  
  Also includes clippings and notes on the visit King Olav V in 1982.
• Esther Thompson postcard collection, circa 1900

  Postcard collection was assembled by Aunt Esther Thompson born in Norway feb 15 1886. Passed away in Chicago in May 2 1976 at age of 86. sister of Jacob Ralph Fjeldheim. Includes two photos of Esther (1 with brother Ralph).
• Holden and Sorlie family history, 2020

  Includes a publication by Jim Holden titled "Norwegian genes: A merger of the Holden and Sorlie families." Sorlie family records includes postcards and genealoy notes. Holden family records includes pamphlets, photograph, and clippings.
• Lorie Topinka collection, 2020

  "Once and Forever: The Long Journey home from Alaska to Norway 1927" by Lorie Topinka, 2020. My grandmother, Agnes Johnson Steberg, kept a daily diary during a five-month family trip in 1927 from Ketchikan along the Pacific Coast through the Panama Canal on to New York and across the Atlantic Ocean to Norway and then returning to Ketchikan overland by way of Minnesota.I was fortunate to find her diary in a box of family memorabilia and then fascinated to read this carefully written daily record of a highpoint of family history-the only return trip to Norway that my Norwegian grandfather, Knut Lauritz Steberg, ever made after immigrating to America in 1905 at the age of 18. This is a simple story about a middle-class Norwegian-American family before the Great Depression and the Second World War that captures the customs of that era and the character of this family.