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• Norheim Art Studio catalogs, 1948-1952

  Photocopies of student art exhibits of a private studio established in Brooklyn, New York, by Thorn Norheim. Born at Eidsvold, Norway, in 1908, Norheim came to the United States in 1923. After study and exhibits in various schools and galleries, he opened his own studio in 1936.
• Harriet Nordhagen papers, 1998

  Data concerning the activities of a native of Drammen, Norway, who came to Chicago in the mid-1920s and became involved in the affairs of a Norwegian colony in Chicago. She was a member and officer of many groups, including the Federation of Norwegian Women's Societies, Ladies' Singing Society, Norwegian National League, Nora Lodge, and for various homes and hospitals. Some poems by her daughter, Barbara Nordhagen, are included.
• Luther Hospital Society of Southern California pamphlet, 1945

  Legend of Life presents a historical survey of the first 25 years of the far-reaching accomplishments of a California hospital society that had its origin in the cooperative efforts of the Lutheran brotherhoods in the area during World War I.
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  Lars E. Larson papers, 1776-2010

  "Norwegian Emigration to Canada, 1850-1874," a University of Wisconsin at Whitewater research paper, 71 pages. Added revised copy, 2010. Chapters include:
  
  

  • Sketches of the Quebec Emigrant Receiving Station
  • Norwegian Emigration and Canadian Immigration Policy
  • Transporting the Emigrants
  • Protecting the Emigrants
  • A New Era: Trans-Shipment and the Steamship
  • and The Arrival at Quebec and the Inland Journey.
• David Haugen family history, 1988

  A compilation of reminiscences, letters, historical sketches, speeches, and genealogical charts concerning related families who settled in Ottertail County, Minnesota, in the 1870s. The history was compiled by a grandson of Christian Haugen, who settled first in Rice County, Minnesota, in 1873, before moving to Ottertail County in 1878.
• Art Brunstad memoir, circa 1983

  "Memoirs of a Norwegian Emigrant," by a Norwegian-American chemist who came to the State of Washington with members of his family in 1919. After completing studies at Washington State College at Pullman, he worked on the Grand Coulee Dam Project. He served with the Air Corps (Chemical Officer) in Burma and China during World War II. After the war he worked for the Hanford Atomic Energy Works, and from 1958 to his retirement in 1971 with the Atomic Energy Commission.
• Haldor E. Boen biography, 1940

  "Sidelights on the Life of Haldor E. Boen," by his son, Harold. Transcript of an article in a 1940 Fergus Falls newspaper, several newspaper articles, a photograph and a 2-page chronology. Born at Reinli, Sør-Aurdal, Valdres, Boen emigrated to Minnesota in 1868. He bought land in Ottertail County in 1870, became active in local politics, and was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives (1892-94) as a member of the Populist Party. After leaving Congress he published and edited the Fergus Globe and, according to his son, was connected with Rodhuggeren, also published in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. The David Haugen Family History (P 1399) gives information on the Boen Family. Lowell J. Soike treats Boen's political career in Norwegians and the Politics of Dissent (NAHA 1991)
• Knud Wefald papers, 1887-1998

  Wefald was a Norwegian-born lumberman, poet, congressman, and Minnesota railroad and warehouse commissioner.
  
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  • Two addresses, 1925 and 1933 "Wefald Family in America," by Nana Wefald Wilson "Family History of Knut Stork Wefald and His Wife Sarah Skre[?],"
  • loose-leaf notebook Poems by Wefald Translations of Norwegian poets Extracts from the "Congressional Record" (68th and 69th) Copy of his "Dikt i Samling
  • Selected Poems," Telemark, Norway, 1987
  • Collection of clippings, many of which report on the speeches he made. 
• Rolf H. Erickson papers, 1790-1992

  Articles, correspondence and other papers concerning the Circulation Services Librarian at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. A graduate of St. Olaf College and of the University of Wisconsin, Erickson has been involved the major Scandinavian activities in the Chicago area. He served as chairman of the Chicago History Committee, was a vice-president of NAHA, was a member of the board of the Swedish Historical Society and the Vesterheim Museum.
  
  In connection with the Norwegian-American Commission of the Sesquicentennial, 1975, he served as co-chairman of the photographic exhibit entitled "With Our Hands and Minds," in Chicago. The exhibit gave rise to the publication of Our Norwegian Immigrants, by Dreyer Forlag, Oslo, 1978. Among Erickson's many interests were Norwegian-American artists and composers, including the lesser known ones. One study, "Norwegian-American Artists' Exhibitions Described in Checklists and Catalogs," appeared in Norwegian-American Studies, volume 31, 1986. A 17-page paper titled "Norwegian-American Composers" is dated July 31, 1989.
  
  His collection includes papers with titles as follows: "The Norwegian Lutheran Church at Jambo Creek in Gibson Township," Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, "A Walking Tour of the Lessor Cemetery, Shawano County, Wisconsin", "Bay, Gjelsness, Hansen, Nyholm, Solberg and Strom: The Scandinavian as Librarian", a biography of Theodore Wesley Kock for the American Library Directory, "A Catalog of Art at Norway Center." He pursued family history: "Family Papers: Icons or Source Materials?" and "Mother, Karen Ramseth" (who was his great-grandmother). Some portions of the Erikson papers remain to be processed. He died of cancer at the peak of his career at age 52. A published Erickson family history is in our books collection.
• Ivar Viehe-Naess autobiography, circa 1912

  The story of an emigrant from Nord Osen in Osterdalen, who came to Chicago in 1891, and became a successful architect there. He had studied in Copenhagen, 1890-1891, and contined for three years at the Chicago School of Architecture. He started his own firm in 1912, working mainly with banks, office buildings, churches, and hospitals. He also designed the plans for a new church built on the site of his farm home in Osen, Norway.