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• Heather D. Prince thesis, 1988

  "Norwegian Clothing and Textiles in Valhalla Centre, Alberta: A Case Study and Inventory in an Ecomuseum Framework," a dissertation submitted to the University of Alberta, Graduate School, for the degree of Master of Science, by a student at that University.
• Niles T. Quales papers, 1908-1988

  Biographical notes, clippings, and a photo of a prominent Norwegian physician in Chicago, who emigrated with a group from Voss in 1859. Trained as a veterinarian in Norway, he saw service as a hospital attendant during the Civil War. After the war he studied at Rush Medical College and received his M.D. in 1868. Includes "House Built by Father, City Physician: 1868-1870" (2 pages), photocopied clippings, 2 photographs.
• Anna and Anders Petterson letters, 1884-1889

  "Ephraim Is My Home Now," letters written to the parents of a young minister and his wife who had been sent by the Moravian Church in Germany at the request of the Provincial Elders Conference, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, as "suitable" for work among the the Scandinavian members of the Moravian Church in Door County, Wisconsin. Anna was Danish and Anders was Swedish. The letters, translated and edited by a granddaughter, Lucille Petterson, were published in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, volume 69, number 3 through volume 70, number 2, 1986-1987.
• Norsk Hostfest brochures, 1988-2008

  Information about an ethnic folk festival held annually in Minot, North Dakota, which features entertainment, exhibits, forums, craft items and food, and about the Minot Scandinavian Heritage Association.
• Carsten Johnson biography, 1988

  "Dr. Johnson's Images," a biographical sketch of a dentist who took up painting as a hobby, was written in connection with an exhibit at Mount Pleasant Public Library, Pleasantville, New York.
• Bertha O.F. Johnson letters, 1874-1888

  Letters to Bertha Fjeld from her mother, Oline Fjeld of Fåberg, Norway, after Bertha's emigration to Blair, Wisconsin, and a few from a sister. Many are from Karl Emil, her future husband, written from various towns where he worked as a railroad station agent. Karl Emil was also known as Charles E. Johnson. A final letter to him is addressed Zumbrota, Minnesota. Folder 1: Letters from Norway (1874-1886). Folder 2: Letters from Karl Emil (1875-1877). Folder 3: Miscellaneous letters. Includes vaccination certificate (1855).
• Christian O. Ruste papers, 1887-1928

  Business records of Ruste's enterprises: Rippling Rill Farm and Creamery and Barber Cheese Company. Ruste was born at Mr. Horeb to Ole Arneson Ruste and his wife Anne, who were early settlers and founders of Perry Lutheran Church. In 1887 h emarried Betsey Anderson of Blue Mounds and they settled on the homestead which he later called Rippling Rill Farm, living there until 3 years before his death. "One of his first acts after he started farming for himself was to purchase a purebred Holstein herd sire and develop a herd of dairy cattle that for years has ranked among the foremost in the dairy history of Southern Wisconsin." He helped "develop his neighborhood into one of the leading dairy centers of the world." He wrote for local papers and farm journals, and wrote "Sixty Years of Perry Congregation" in 1915. Ruste is related to "Snowshoe Thompson."
  
  

  • Journals and ledgers of business records. 4 volumes of Rippling Rill Farm and Creamery, expenses, income, and transactions: 1897-1903, 1905, 1905-1906, 1900-1913.
  • Journals and ledgers of business records. 8 volumes of Barber Cheese Company expenses, income, and transactions: 1887-1896, 11893-1899, 1896-1900, 1900-1904, 1906-1913, 1914-1916, 1917-1919, 1920-1922/1924-1928.2 volumes of business records. Expenses, 1914-1922; Miscellaneous, 1900-1922.
• Jacobsen family letters, 1923-1940

  Original letters from siblings Jenny and Asbjorn Jacobsen. Includes the book: "Brev Fra Brooklyn, 1923-1940" by Kirsten Limstrand: A group of four siblings emigrated from Salten in Nordland to America in the period 1923-1927. The book is based on many hundreds of letters to and from the siblings. The book is a family story, but at the same time gives a picture of how life and business behaved for most people in Brooklyn at this time.
• Stephanie Vogel family history, circa 1990

  Includes "Norway in Black and Light," "Hill weddings from Norway to America," and two CDs.
• Aasgaard family scrapbook, undated

  CD with images of a scrapbook.