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• Julia Lyng clipping, 1986

  A Springfield, Minnesota, newspaper account of a 108-year-old Norwegian American, as she reminisced about her long life in Minnesota, to which she came as a member of her family in 1884. (transferred to Rowberg File)
• Knut Olafson Lundeberg papers, 1859-1942

  Papers of a prominent Norwegian-Lutheran minister, who emigrated from Kviteseid, Telemark, in 1878 to Chickasaw County, Iowa. After study at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa (1881-1882), he attended the seminary and then taught at St. Olaf College. He was ordained in 1889 and had a varied career as minister, teacher, and administrator. He was the founder of a small Lutheran group called "Brodersamfundet" and edited its publication Broderbaandet. Later he returned to the United Lutheran Church and wrote an apologia for his action.
  
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  Folder 1: Family history; 1937 trip to Norway; information about Lundeberg.
  Folder 2: Lundeberg papers (about Lundeberg).
  Folders 3, 4, 5: "Glimt".
  Folder 6: "Glimt fra mit liv"; book titled "Glimt fra mit liv: En utvandrers minnebok".
  3 Folders: "Our Tour to Scandinavia in 1937: Golden Wedding Honeymoon!" (3 copies)
  
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  Folder 1: Lundeberg papers and writings, including  "Why I left the Lutheran Brethren and Joined the United (Lutheran) Church".
  Folder 2: Correspondence.
  Folder 3: About Mrs. Lundeberg.
  Folder 4: Photos.
  Folder 5: Writings of Frithjof S. Lundeberg.
  Folder 6: Untitled miscellaneous papers.
  Also in box: Book titled "Sangeren", 2 appointment books.
  
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  Folder 1: Sermons on 1 Peter.
  Folder 2: "Naar kommer Guds rike".
  Folder 3: "The Living Lord: A practical exposition of Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians".
  Also in box: 3 notebooks of radio sermons, WCAL, 1925-1941
  
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  Box 4: Book titled "The Church of the Living Lord".
  Boxes 4-6: Notes for sermons and talks Lundeberg gave throughout his career, unorganized.
• Olai Bache-Wiig clipping and notebooks, 1904, 1982

  A story in the Mosinee, Wisconsin, Times, November 18th, 1982, concerning the presentation of a photograph of Bache-Wiig to the Mosinee Paper Corporation. Bache-Wiig, an immigrant from Baastad (now part of Oslo) was designer and engineer of the Corporation (1910 - 1911), operating superintendent, (1911 - 1916), and vice-president and general manager (1916 - 1924). The accompanying article was written by his son Lars Ravn Bache-Wiig of Philadelphia, PA.
  
  Also includes two notebooks of "Tekniske Notitser" including a number of separate pages with various formulae, financial calculations, etc, also March 25th, 1904 letter to Olai from his uncle.
• Leif Wilhelmsen autobiography, 1981

  A 30-page account written by an emigrant who was born at Hoholmen, Herøy, Norway, covering his life as a fisherman and seaman in Norway, experiences there during the German occupation and emigration to Chicago in 1947 with the various occupations he engaged in until his retirement in 1973 as a maintenance worker in the Brooks Building.
• Lully Lund papers, 1872-1971

  An autobiography of and letters to the wife of Einar Lund, an editor of Decorah-Posten, a newspaper for which Ms. Lund also worked as proofreader. Included are photos of notable events in Decorah, Iowa, such as the royal visit in 1939. The 116-page autobiography, "Minner fra mitt liv," is an edited transcription by her daughter, Eva Lund Haugen, based on tape recordings made in 1965 and 1966.
• Harold Larson papers, 1897-1937

  Mainly letters from Norway to the family of a Norwegian-American educator. Included are the citizenship papers of Michael Larson, 1885, and three letters by N. J. Thomasberg, then a student at Augsburg Seminary, to members of the Larson Family. Letters from 1928 to 1937 are to Harold from his mother. Born in Sioux City, Iowa, Larson received his B.A. degree from Morningside College (1927), and his Ph.D. degree from Columbia University. The Kings College Press published his dissertation, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson: A Study in Nationalism, in 1944. He taught at different colleges, among them the University of Maryland and the Pentagon. He worked for the United States National Archives and served as historian for the United States Army and Air Force. The details of his professional career are covered in a letter from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University, where a bulk of his papers are kept.
• Talleiv Olavsson Huvestad biography, 1987

  Translation of an account by Olaf Grimalden of the life and work of Huvestad, a farmer from Eidsborg parish, Lårdal, Telemark who was a delegate at the Eidsvoll constitutional convention of 1814. His daughter Anne and her two children emigrated to the United States. Translated by Norman Hagen, Milan, Minnesota.
• Olaf Jorgen Hanssen autobiography, 1865-1935

  "Memories," the story of an emigrant from Mosjøen, who came to Woonsocket, Dakota Territory in 1887, but left for San Francisco in 1888. He tells of growing up in northern Norway, of the Dakota blizzard in 1888, and of his successes and disappointments in California. An appendix by Norma Enid Hansen continues the story with "Memories of the Olaf Jorgen Hanssen Family," and includes a family tree.
• George Tobias Flom articles, 1907-1949

  Offprints of 42 articles and reviews published in The Journal of English and German Philology and other journals by a distinguished Norwegian-American philologist.
  
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  • Folder: Clippings and biography.
    
    • "The Lay of Thrym, or the Fetching of Thor's Hammer" from the Journal of American Folk-Lore volume XX, number LXXIX.
    • "Place-Name Tests of Racial Mixture In Northern England" from Modern Language Notes.
      
    • "On the Phononlgy of English Loan-words in the Norwegian Dialects of Koshkonong in Wisconsin."
      "Alliteration and Variation in Old Germanic Name-Giving" from the Modern Language Club; January 20, 1934.
      
    • "Anglo-Norman Script and the Script of Twelfth-Century MSS in North-Western Norway" from Studies in English Philology.
      Review on "The Place-Names of Cumberland and Westmorland" from Modern Language Notes.
      
    • "A History of Scandinavian Studies in American Universities" from Iowa Studies in Language and Literature number II; May 1907.
      
    • "Old-Lore" from Modern Language Notes volume xxiii, number 6; June 1908.
      
    • "The Noun Stems in the Didrekssaga" from The Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume IX, number 1; 1910.
      
    • "The Scope of the Post-Positive Article in Olafs Saga Hins Helga" from The Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume IX, number 2; 1910.
      
    • "Fragment RA.58 C. of Konongs Skuggsja: from an Old Norwegian Parchment Codex of the XIIIth Century, with Heliotype Copy and a Study of the Paleography and the Language" from The University Studies volume IV, number 2; March 1911.
      
    • "Det norske sprogs bruk og utvikling i Amerika" from Nordmands Forbundet; May 1912.
      
    • "The Phonologt of the Dialect of Aurland, Norway" from University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature volume 1, numbers 1 and 2; February-May 1915.
      
      

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  •  "Scandinavian Studies: Presented to George T. Flom by Colleagues and Friends" containing a biography of George T. Flom.
    
    • "Mål og Minne 1946"
      "Et Norsk Hedersskrift I Amerika" from University of Illinois Press; 1942.
      Review of "Ortnamnen I Göteborgs Och Bohus Län. IV. Ortnamnen I V. Hisings Härad. Göteborg, 1936" from Journal of English and Germanic Philology; January 1940.
      
    • Review of "Det Norske Landnåm på man (Marstrander)" from Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XXXVII, number 2; April 1938.
      
    • Review of "Der Einfluss des Nördlichen Dialektes im Mittelenglischen auf die Entstehende Hochsprache" by Agnes Peitz and "Lingustica. Selected Papers in English, French, and German" by Otto Jespersen, both from Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XXXIII, number 3; July 1934.
      
    • "The Edinburgh Fragment of the Old Norwegian General Law of King Magnus IV" from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XXXII, number 2; April 1933.
      
    • "A Note on Semantic Borrowing in Old Saxon" by H. V. Velten, from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XXX, number 4; October 1931.
      
    • "The Use of Small Capitals in Medial and Final Position in the Earliest Old Norwegian Manuscripts"; January 20, 1934.
      
    • "The Study of Place-Names, with special reference to Norway" from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XXIII, number 2; April 1924.
      
    • "Spirits, Black Elves, Fairies, and Giants in the Folklore of Aurland in Sogn, Norway" from the Journal of American Folklore; January-March 1949.
      
    • "English Loanwords in American Norwegian: as spoken in the Koshkonong Settlement, Wisconsin" from American Speech volume I, number 10; July  1926.
      
    • Review of "Egils saga Skallagrímssonar, nebst den grösseren Gedichten Egils" by Finnur Jónsson from Modern Philology volume XXIV, number 3; February  1927.
      
    • "Breaking in Old Norse and Old English: with Special Reference to the Relations between them" from Language volume 13, number 2; April-June 1937.
      
    • Review of "Norsk Rimsmålsordbok. Utarbeidet av Trygve Knudsen og Alf Sommerfelt" from The American Journal of Philology volume LVI, number 3;
      
    • "Survey of the Study; Relation to Other Sciences; Major Problems of the Present." from Scandinavian Philology; January 20, 1934.
      
    • "Studies in Scandinavian Paleography" from Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XVI, number 3; July 1917.
      
    • "On the Phonology of English Loan-words in the Norwegian Dialects of Koshkonong in Wisconsin"; January 20, 1934.
      
    • "Studies in Scandinavian Paleography" from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology; 1915.
      "Old Norse Fránn, 'Gleaming', Orkedalen Dial. Fræna, 'to rain'. A Study in Semantics" from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XXV; 1926 (2 copies).
      
    • "Kust- och Skärgårdsnamnen I Göteborgs och Bohus län. I. Sjökortet Tjörn. Av Hjalmar Lindroth." from Modern Philology volume XXIII, number 1; August 1925.
      
    • Reviews of "Festskrift til Amund B. Larsen paa Hans 75-Aars Fødselsdag, 15 Desember 1924." from The American Journal of Philology volume XLVII, number 1; January-March 1926.
      
    • "English Loanwords in American Norwegian: As spoken in the Koshkonong Settlement, Wisconsin" from American Speech volume I, number 10; July 1926.
      
    • "Some Dialect Names of Fauna and Flora in Strøm's Søndmørs Beskrivelse , I. 1762." from The Germanic Review volume I, number 3; July 1926 (3 copies).
      
    • "Noa Words in North Sea Regions; a Chapter in Folklore and Linguistics" from the Journal of American Folk-Lore; March 1927 (2 copies).
      
    • "The Place-Names of Lancashire" by Eilert Ekwall from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XXIV, number 2; April 1925.
      
    • "Norwegian Surnames" from Scandinavian Studies and Notes volume V, number 4; 1918.
      
    • "Sun-Symbols of the Tomb-Sculptures at Louchcrew, Ireland, Illustrated by Similar Figures in Scandinavian Rock Tracings" from American Anthropologist volume 26, number 2; April-June 1924 (2 copies).
      
    • "Figures of Ships and the Four-Spoked Wheel in Ancient Irish Sculpture" from American Anthropologist volume 25, number 3; July-September 1923 (2 copies).
      
    • "Tunamål Words: Dialect of Stora Tuna Parish, South Dalarne, Sweden" from Scandinavian Studies volume V, number 8; November 1919.
      Review of "Historische Grammatik D"
• Ola Bjorland songbook, 1895

  "Sanger" A compilation of 190 Norwegian folk songs, religious and secular, in Norwegian and English, compiled by the minister of the Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church in Chicago for use on informal occasions.