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• Dordi Glaerum Skuggevik manuscript, 1886

  A 1,000-page typescript manuscript for the book Utvandringshistorie fra Nordmøre: Stangvik og Surnadal Prestegjeld, which was published in Surnadal, Norway, 1886. The book is an exhaustive account of emigration from the above-named parish, giving details of the individuals. The publication is in the NAHA books collection: JV6734.S56.
  
  Includes: Introductory statement: "A 'Roadsign' to Readers in America" by the author. Also included is a review (in Norwegian) by St. Olaf College professor emeritus Odd S. Lovoll. Folder 2 contains manuscript part 1: "Emigration statistics." Folder 3 contains manuscript part 2A: "Michigan." Folder 4 contains manuscript part 2B: "Michigan." Folder 5 contains manuscript part 3: "Minnesota and Wisconsin" as well as a letter to St. Olaf College professor emeritus Odd Lovoll. Folder 6 contains manuscript part 4: "Diaries of Emigrants." Folder 7 contains manuscript part 5: "West Coast" as well as a letter to St. Olaf College professor emeritus Odd Lovoll. Folder 8 contains manuscript part 6: "Gard directories." Introductory statement by the author, "A 'Roadsign' to Readers in America," in typescript with handwritten editing marks. Hardcover copy of "Utvandringshistorie fra Nordmøre: Stangvik og Surnadal Prestegjeld," given to Carlton Qualey. Inside the front cover is a letter from the author to Qualey.
• Dreng Bjornaraa clippings, 1919-1987

  Newspaper items and some correspondence collected by a Norwegian American who lived in Minneapolis and had a varied career as a journalist, educator, federal government officer, and public relations officer for U. S. Steel.
  
  The clippings cover his interests in Norwegian-American activities. He sat on a number of boards: Lutheran Brotherhood, Fairview Hospital, and St. Olaf College. Family clippings concerning Bjorgulv Bjornaraa (1878-1942, father of Dreng Bjornaraa); Thorwald Bjornaraa (1909-1985, Dreng's brother); Bud Bjornaraa (Dreng's nephew); Knut Helland (1880-1919); and Clarence C. Knudsen (1902-1987); Obituary of Dreng Bjornaraa; Correspondence of Bjorgulv Bjornaraa; Photograph of Dreng Bjornaraa at a NAHA banquet, 1919-1987; Correspondence of Dreng Bjornaraa, 1951-1981; Nordmanns Forbundet correspondence and clippings, 1951-1981; Norwegian American Sesquicentennial clippings, 1975; Bernhard Knudsen  correspondence and obituary, 1927-1945; Olav, King of Norway, clippings, 1975-1976; Vesterheim clippings, 1965-1976; and Norwegians in the U.S. clippings, 1951-1986.
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  Bjorn Winger papers, 1916-1940

  Biography/History: 
  Bjorn A. Winger (1892-1945) was a second-generation Norwegian-American who grew up in Minnesota. He graduated from St. Olaf College in 1914. Shortly after this, he enlisted in the Minnesota National Guard, serving during World War I; during his training or deployment at Camp Cody in New Mexico, he began writing and publishing poetry. He received his M.A. degree from Indiana University in 1930. He taught English in an Indianapolis high school from 1916 to 1941, except for military service in France during World War I. 

  Scope and Content: 
  Poems, stories, and an unpublished novel of a Norwegian-American teacher, folklorist, and writer. The papers include information about his father, Anders Winger (1861-1928), a Norwegian actor who emigrated in 1882 and lived in Minnesota the rest of his life.

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  Ingeborg Olsdatter Bergeim diaries, 1850-1987

  A collection of 52 notebooks (3,500 pages), which constitute the daily records of a woman from Surnadal who emigrated to the U.S. in 1880, married Peter Bergeim and settled with him in Watertown, Dakota Territory. The first diaries are written in Norwegian, but beginning in 1903 are in English. They are quite introspective, covering her thoughts and her personal and family life. There are accounts of the Atlantic crossing and of an attempt at homesteading. The diaries were discovered by her son Joseph Bergeim (b. 1894), who translated the story of her early married life into a manuscript called "Ingeborg's Story," 1944. This work also includes a genealogy, a chronology of important events, Peter Bergeim's own autobiography, some family pictures, and a summary of the diaries.
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  Eleanor Iverson Gunlaugson papers, 1913-1980

  Pamphlets, pictures, scrapbooks, clippings of a Minneapolis physician, who was graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1934. She had practiced in different communities before returning to Minneapolis where she worked at well-baby clinics in the Minnesota Department of Public Health and was for a time a medical director at Northwestern Hospital.
  
  Includes a scrapbook about the 1939 royal visit to America by the Crown Prince and Princess of Norway, newspaper clippings, programs from events honoring them.
• Colonel Bernt Balchen papers, 1906-2004

  Biographical material, articles, correspondence and photographs of an aviation pioneer and artist. Balchen was born in Tveit, Norway, 1899. Trained in the Norwegian Army and later volunteered for Finland's White Army. A top athlete, Balchen was a member of Norway's Olympic boxing team and set records in cross-country skiing and bicycling. He joined the Royal Norwegian Naval Air Force, graduating in 1921. Assisted in Amundsen attempted flight across the North Pole in the dirigible "Norge." Richard E. Byrd asked Balchen to join him in the United States as a test pilot in 1927. In 1948, he began a serious study of water color painting techniques and achieved critical acclaim for his works. Awarded the Air Force distinguished Service Medal (1956) and a special Congressional Medal for Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928-1930). Enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame.
• Gunnar O. Solwald memoirs, 1875-1977

  "Remembrances from My Life", 179 pages, an autobiographical account of an 1875 emigrant from Skien, who tells about his childhood and youth and about his career as seaman, soldier, and teacher in Norway. The emigrant journey in 1875 is covered in detail; it ended near Rushford, Minnesota, where Solwald was a farmer and teacher. Later he and his family moved to Clay County, Minnesota, and in 1887 went to the state of Washington. An epilogue by Gertrude Solwold Wells tells the story of the last years of his life in Tacoma, Washington. Also, Borghild, by Borghild Solwold Melbye, 176 pages; "Memoirs of Hans Solvold," 4 pages; "Hammarsmark Family Tree," 15 pages; and "Trond Solvold," 5 pages
  
  Includes: 
  
  Folder 1: Memoir titled "Remembrance From my Life".
  Folder 2: Topics include bed bugs; Pearl House hotel in La Crosse, Wisconsin; language issues in America; threshing and tying sheaves; eating ill-prepared food including a hair ball, titled "Solvoldfamiliens Slektsregister".
  Folder 3: Memoir by Hans Solvold, Hammersmark family tree.
• Nils John Julius Rein biography, 1897

  A statement concerning the placing of a marker on Rein's unmarked grave in Tacoma, Washington. He was born in Hendrum, Minnesota, a son of immigrant parents, a World War I veteran, a violinist, who spent much of his early life in Madison, Wisconsin. He studied music in Chicago, but lack of finances prevented continuing. Later he taught at San Pedro, California, and finally set up his own studio in Tacoma, Washington.
• Jacob A. O. Preus clippings, 1920-1977

  Newspaper accounts concerning the activities of a Norwegian American who served as governor of Minnesota, 1921-1925, and later became well known in the field of insurance. His career included being a founder of Lutheran Brotherhood, of which he became Chairman of the Board. He was Vice-President of W. A. Alexander and Co., an insurance brokerage firm.
• Ed Olson correspondence, 1892-1928

  Miscellaneous letters written by and to members of the family of a merchant in Albert Lea, Minnesota.