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Hilleren family history, 1985-1986
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Hilma Quammen interview, 1995 September 8
"In this series of interviews by Odd Lovoll for his books “The Promise of America: History of the Norwegian-American People” and “The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today,” Lovoll interviews Andreas Rhude. Unprocessed This item is currently restricted." -
Hilton family letters, 1847-1908
Copies of transcription letters (1847-1908) from members of the Hilton family who emigrated to the United States to their relatives at Ullensaker, Norway. The letters are chiefly from Christopher Jacobson, who emigrated in 1854, to his brother Hans Jacobson Hilton, and from Hans's son Jacob, who came in 1874 and after a few years settled in Socorro, New Mexico. There are also some letters from Jacob's brothers Oluf and Christopher from New Mexico. There are references to August Hilton, the father of Conrad Hilton. The letters were obtained through Norsk Historisk Kjeldeskrift Institutt in Oslo. -
Hinderlie-Reinertsen family history, 1994-2003
Funeral bulletin for Mrs. Camilla Jenson (1911-2005), biographical sketch of Lars Skrefsrud and Bolette Larsen, Norwegian newspaper clipping regarding Bolette Larsen, "About the Trip to America" (author unknown), obituary for Martin Thomas Jenson (1902-1989), "A Norwegian Community in Texas" (Haugesund News, Dec. 27, 1986), "Karmøy's Role in Emigration" by Gerhard Naeseth (1988), "Pastor Christian Hinderlie: The Master Cooper Who Became a Minister Amongst the Norwegian Settlers in America" (1952), biographical sketch of James Jenson Brovold by Lawrence C. Jenson, and autobiography of Rev. Peter Ingbart Reinertsen 1858-1936 (ca. 1931, 82 pages, translated in 1971 by son, Dr. P.D. Reinertsen). -
Hjalma Peterson poems and songs, 1900-1977
"'Olle i Skratthults' Nya Viser och Historier," a collection of poems and songs, compiled by a Swedish immigrant who became popular in Scandinavian communities as a singer and story-teller. "The Man who gave us Nikolina," by Maury Bernstein is an article excerpted from "Earth Journal," Spring-Summer, 1977; "Snoose Boulevard, 1973"; "Olle i Skratthults populara success, Nikolina, ord och musik"; and an English-language version of Nikolina, first popularized by Slim Jim and the Vagabond Kid and later by Anne Charlotte Harvey in the 1970s. -
Hjalmar Hiorth Boyesen papers, 1871-1966
Biographical miscellany, articles, poems, and stories of a Norwegian-born novelist, poet, essayist, and teacher. Boyesen was on the faculty at Ohio State University, Cornell University, and Columbia College. He wrote extensively for the leading journals and his first and perhaps best-known novel was "Gunnar." NAHA published Clarence Glasrud's "Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen" in 1963. Finding aid coming soon. -
Hjalmar Olsen family history, 1982
Roald Steen's translation of his article about a naval family, which was published in "Nordmanns Forbundet," no. 3, 1982. Hjalmar Olsen, an emigrant from Oslo, had a long career with the United States Navy. Five of his sons pursued a similar career. -
Hjalmar Rued Holand papers, circa 1910
Articles, clippings, and pamphlets of a Norwegian-born historian and fruit farmer at Ephraim, Wisconsin. The articles and pamphlets deal with local Door County history; Indians; Robert La Salle; Newport Tower; the Kensington Rune Stone; a review of Holand's "De norske settlementers Historie" by Thorstein Jahr, Minneapolis Tidende, January 19-February 2, 1910; and incomplete clippings from three series of articles titled "Billeder fra nybyggerlivet," "Vor nybyggersaga," and "Fra de gamle dage" that ran in "Skandinaven."
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File: Billeder fra Nybyggerlivet. Includes: Norwegian-American news paper articles from Michigan about H.R. Holand, (1923, 1924). -
Hjemkomst history, 1980-2007
A Dream is a Dream 1980 (revised edition), the story of a replica of a Viking ship, as told by the builder, Robert Asp. Building of the ship took place in an old potato warehouse in Hawley, Minnesota. Robert Asp died before the work was finished, but his family readied the ship and sailed the Hjemkomst across the Atlantic, arriving in Bergen, Norway, July 19th, 1982. A Minneapolis Tribune Picture Section (August 29th, 1982) and clippings tell the final story. The ship is now housed at the Red River Valley Heritage Society's Museum at Moorhead, Minnesota. (Heritage-Hjemkomst Interpretive Center) Beginning 1997 a replica of the Hopperstad stave church in Vik is being built in connection with the center. Clippings about this church are included, as well as those about the annual Scandinavian Hjemkomst festival held in Fargo-Moorhead. The Clay County Historical Society Archives are also in the center.
Includes programs, invitations, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and advertisements for the Hjemkomst festivals. -
Hjermstad family history, 1908-1996
"My Trip to Norway," a photocopied manuscript of fifteen-year-old Nora Cordelia Hjermstad'stravel log to Brudal, Norway (1908). Included are six letters written by NoraHjermstad to her mother detailing her travels, and several familyphotographs (scanned, originals returned), some taken while visitingNorway