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Fred F. Poyner collection, 2022
"Pacific Fishermen, Inc. 150 Years of Heritage Norwegian Shipbuilding" By Fred F. Poyner IV and John Douglas Dixon.
"A tribute to the Norwegian-heritage fishermen and shipwrights of the Pacific Northwest. An eclectic and essential group who have survived the ravages of the 1918 Spanish Flu and the 2021 COVID-19 Coronavirus. As a testament to this the King of Norway, HM King Harald V, specifically requested a visit to the shipyard on his tour of America in 2015. He specifically wanted to congratulate his cadre of Norwegian-American Fishing Pioneers and Knights-in-Waiting at a PacFish BBQ where he of course was served King Crab!" -
Kristian Prestgard papers, 1884-1945
History/Biography:
Kristian Prestgard was born on the Harelstad farm in Heidal, Oppland, Norway. His parents were Gudbrand Kristensen Harelstad (1829-1869) and Marit Prestgard (1841-1897). When his father, Kristian and Marit moved back to her family farm in Prestgard.
Prestgard attended the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago as a correspondent for Oplandenes Avis, a Norwegian newspaper. Instead of returning home to Norway, he started working in the Norwegian-American press. In 1897, he married Oline Musum (1873–1919) and took a position with a Norwegian language newspaper company in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
He was co-editor and editor of "Decorah-Posten" (1897-1946); co-editor and publisher of "Symra" (1905-1914); editor of Norske Kvad (1906); translator of "Fra Livet i Vestjylland" by Jakob Jakobsen (1894); author of "Nansenfaerden" (1896), Skrøneboka (1911), En Sommer i Norge (1928), "Streiftog, Stemninger og Skildringer" and "Fjords and Faces" (1937); and a founder of NAHA and a member of its board of editors (1925-1933).
Scope and Content:
Correspondence, manuscripts, and a scrapbook of a Norwegian-born journalist and author.
The letters by Prestgard and those by his correspondents deal largely with such subjects as the language controversy both in Norway and America, the tour of Norway by twelve American newspapermen in 1927, Knut Gjerset's unfinished dictionary of Norwegian-American biography, the writings of Ole E. Rølvaag, the Norwegian-American Historical Association, the merging of "Minneapolis Tidende" and "Decorah-Posten" in 1935, genealogy, immigration history, and gladioli. He gained a reputation as a horticulturist by developing 30 new varieties of gladioli.
The Ola K. Stokkestad letters to Prestgard (1884-1897) are unique in that they treat not the economics of rural areas but cultural pursuits mainly in the city.
The Arne Odd Johnson letters (1934-1938) deal with editorial and publication problems connected with using the Prestgard-Ivar Kleiven correspondence as basic material in a history of the migration of Norwegians to America.
The John Heitmann letters (1928-1945) are primarily about the problems of translating, editing, and publishing "Fjords and Faces," the English version of "En Sommer i Norge."
Among the other correspondents are R. B. Anderson, Henry Armstrong, Mrs. L. M. Boomer, Th. Caspari, Borghild M. Dahl, Juul Dieserud, P. J. Eikeland, Johan Falkberget, Arne Garborg, C. J. Hambro, J. C. M. Hanson, Hjalmar R. Holand, Halvdan Koht, Hanna Astrup Larsen, Fridtjof Nansen, John Norstog, Julius Olson, Franklin Petersen, Ragnhild Prestgard, A. N. Rygg, Ludwig Saxe, Th. H. Svanoe, A. A. Veblen, and Henry A. Wallace.
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Johan Carl K. Preus papers, 1917-1969
Includes: "Remarks at the Preus Library luncheon" (1969), "Alaska, Romance and Reality", "The Stockholm Conference, an Evaluation" (Aug. 1925), "Some Contributions of the Church in Minnesota's First Century," in Minnesota Farmer (March-April 1958), "A Critical Look at the Lutheran Church Among Norwegian Americans" a pamphlet by E. Clifford Nelson and Eugene Fevold, and "The Union Movement and the Minority, 1917"; some Sunday school material and a teacher's manual.
Transition from Norway's State Church to an American Free Church is a study of the early efforts of the Reverend Herman A. Preus and his Spring Prairie, Bonnet Prairie, Norway Grove, and Lodi parish in Dane and Columbia Counties, Wisconsin, to orient themselves to American church life, 45 typescript pages -
Marilyn Priestly bibliography, 1980
"Comprehensive Guide to the Manuscript Collection and to the Personal Papers in the University Archives," compiled by Marilyn Priestly. Of special interest are the pages dealing with Norwegian Americans. -
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. -
Carlton C. Qualey papers, 1930-1988
Dr. Qualey, a graduate of St. Olaf College, was prominent in the affairs of the NAHA as writer, board member, and editor. After his retirement as Professor of history at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, he was associated with the Minnesota Historical Society, serving as editor of "The Immigration History Newsletter."
Includes:- Articles: "Pioneer Norwegian settlement in North Dakota" from "North Dakota Historical Quarterly" (1930); "Pioneer Norwegian settlement in Minnesota" from "Minnesota History Magazine" (1931); "The Fox River Norwegian Settlement" from "Illinois State Historical Society Quarterly Journal" (1934); "Pioneer Scandinavian settlement in Michigan" from "Michigan History Magazine" (1940); "Newer interpretations of American history to 1860" from "National Council for the Social Studies, Yearbook 17" (1946); "Territorial history: a bibliographical note" from "Minnesota History" (1947); "Recent scholarship and interpretations in American history" from "Social Education" (1951); "Immigration in American history" from "History Teachers' Club" (1963); "On being an ethnic historian" for Friends of the Library, Western Reserve Historical Society (1972); "Norwegians in the Upper Midwest: immigration and acculturation" for the Conference on Norwegian Influence in the Upper Midwest, University of Minnesota-Duluth, 22-24 May 1975; "Immigration to the United States since 1815" published in 1980, written for the Wuppertal Colloquium, West Germany, preparatory conference for the 1975 International Congress of Historical Sciences in San Francisco; "Racism, nativism and nationalism as factors in the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924" by Lillian Ray Bowman (1951) for a seminar in U.S. History taught by Qualey; "Ethnic studies and higher education" (1972). See also Qualey's article "A typical Norwegian settlement: Spring Grove, Minnesota" in "Norwegian American Studies and Records" volume 9, pages 54-66 (1936). NAHA published in 1938 his "Norwegian Settlement in the U.S.," for related material see P1000, Box 38.
- "An Academic Autobiography" (1986); copies of articles from the "Carleton Voice" (1970); clippings (1932-1988); Correspondence with NAHA (1960-1986); photograph of Qualey.
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Halvo Quam (Kveim) papers, 1889-1899
Born in Gjerstad, Norway, January 20, 1868. He was a graduate of the Aas school of agriculture, Norway. At the age of 24 he came to Minneapolis, moved to Seattle in 1898, and the same year went to the Yukon Territory seeking gold. A founding member of the Monitor Gold Mining and Trading Company. In 1901 he settled in Everett and opened the Quam & Clausen Coffee & Tea Company, which he operated until 1912. In that year he went into the insurance and real estate business and in 1924 he took the secretaryship of the Scandinavian Savings and Loan Company, later Everett Federal Savings and Loan Association (manager at the time of his death).
Includes:
- Diary from gold prospecting expedition
- Begins in Minneapolis and concludes in the Yukon Territory. January 1, 1898-August 31, 1899.
- "Minnebok", Rauland Folkehøyskole, Seljord, Telemark (1889-1891)
- Memorandum.
- Handwritten collection of Norwegian and some English poems and songs; Chemical laboratory notes, Aas Landbruksskole, 1891.
- Lecture notes, "Botanikk", Aas Landbruksskole, 1890
- Lecture notes, "Havebrugslære, Aas Landbruksskole, undated
- Diary from gold prospecting expedition
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Nels Quam autobiography, 1978
Autobiography of a Norwegian-born retired school superintendent, for a time superintendent of Ebenezer Home in Minneapolis (1946-1962). Includes descriptions of his childhood and youth in Norway, his emigration to the United States in 1913, his school days at Jewell Lutheran College and St. Olaf College, his experiences in both World Wars, and his work in the Iowa schools and at the Ebenezer Home. He retired to Northfield, Minnesota, in 1962. -
Rose Quam papers, 1981
Copies of miscellaneous letters and papers concerning early immigrants to Illinois, chiefly Ole Quam and Ole Hetletvedt Olson, together with information about a Norwegian Center at Norway, Illinois, and the Norwegian Immigration Sesquicentennial, 1975.