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• Sigurd Anderson lectures, 1961-1963

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• Thorvald Anderson letters, 1883-1927

  Letters from family and friends to an emigrant from Stavanger who came to Menekaunee, Wisconsin, in 1884. He moved to Iron River, Michigan, in 1899 and from there to Chicago. His last address was Prosser, Washington. He was engaged in various enterprises, including lumbering and mining. A summarized account of the letters was prepared as well as an outline of Anderson's family history.
• A. B. Andreassen catalog, undated

  Norwegian-born artist and manager of a Norwegian art shop in Minneapolis, who dealt in reproductions of Norwegian art. Andreassen operated at 526 Hennepin Ave in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Agency for H. Abels Kunstforlag, Kristiania, selling reproductions of Norwegian art.
  
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• Alfred Andresen papers, circa 1893

  Advertisements from the firm Alfred Andresen, the Western Importer, Minneapolis, established in 1893, regarding such items as "Sunhets Saltet" and other medications, spinning wheels, and "kromkagejern."
  
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  • Advertisements and imported articles, undated
    • One sheet (one-side) advertises and illustrates various "Norwegian wares." A double-sided sheet has endorsements "from leading European men" of medication, and also one from H.P. Leachman "of the firm J. Leachman & Son" of Minneapolis, Feb. 12, 1897. A very large sheet issued by Heymann Bloch & Co. of Copehagen, is devoted to endorsements of the medication, but does not mention Andresen. The address of Andresen's firm is given as 1310 Washington Ave. S., Minneapolis.; Added (Aug. 24, 2009) photocopied article from magazine The Spinning Wheel Sleuth (July 2006, no. 53): Alfred Andresen, Spinning-Wheel Entrepreneur, by Michael B. Taylor. Added December 7, 2016: Laurann Gilbertson, Chief Curator, Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, "Cast Iron,Flax Straw, and Celluloid: Business Ventures of an Immigrant Entrepreneur" (presented at the Northern Great Plains History Conference, St. Cloud, Minnesota, September 15, 2016. 8 pgs.)

  
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• Nicolai Andresen memoirs, 1938-1963

  A typescript of 41 pages covering reminiscences from the home in Oslo and visits to other parts of Norway at the turn of the 20th Century. The memoirs were written during the last twenty-five years of Mr. Andresen's life in the United States. He died in New York City.
• Ole Andreson (Anderson) correspondence, 1864-1887

  Letters to his wife at Wiota, LaFayette County, Wisconsin, from a Norwegian-born farmer who enlisted February 2, 1864, with Company H of the Third Wisconsin Regiment of Infantry and was killed May 25, 1864, at Dallas, Georgia. Andreson gives instructions to his wife regarding farm operations, purchase of land, and collection of his pay. He describes the health and living conditions of his company, the slaves he meets, destruction of property, and the battle engagement north of Atlanta. Two letters from Rice Lake, Wisconsin, are descriptive of logging days.
  
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  • Correspondence, Civil War and other letters, circa 1886-1887
    • All letters in Norwegian; one letter transcribed. Letters from Olaus Fjeld of Rice Lake Wisconsin, December 12, 1886 and March 6, 1887. One letter from Anders Thorsen Aase, Dane County, Wisconsin, December 19, 1867, all addressed to Ole's widow, Ragnild.

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• Peter Andressen papers, 1975-1979

  Clippings from a Hawley, Minnesota, newspaper "The Herald" which published the "America letters" of a pioneer farmer in Clay county, Minnesota. Written from 1869 to 1901 to relatives in Rollag, Numedal, Norway, the letters cover aspects of pioneer life (in Emmet County, Iowa, and Clay County, Minnesota) and give news of family and friends. Andressen emigrated in 1869 and settled near what became Rollag, Minnesota, in 1877.
  
  Includes: clippings of photographs and some biographical material translated by Otto Bratlie, but only two translations are included. One photograph was taken in 1975.
• Torres Anfinsen papers, 1853

  Immigration papers (LaSalee Co., Ill.), citizenship papers (1853), and transcription of a letter (& transcription) written from Ottawa, Illinois, 1851 by Lars A. Wiigh to "Torres Anfindsen Wiig, Rochester P.O., Racine Co., Wis." N.B.: (see Naeseth's "Norwegian Immigrants" v. 2, p. 223 for Torres emigration on "Kong Sverre" from Bergen to New York, arriving June 24 or 29th, 1846; born Skaanevik, Hordaland.
  
  Includes a vaccination certificate (1819); certificate (1852) from Lærdal parish for Ingeborg Ovesdatter Lysne, born 1822.
• Oral History

  Scott F. Anfinson interview, 2002 August 6

  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." Celeste Holm was an American stage, film and television actress. Holm won an Academy Award for her performance in Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement, and was nominated for her roles in Come to the Stable and All About Eve Unprocessed This item is currently restricted.
• Nina Sandström Angelsen thesis, 2005

  A Hovedfag thesis submitted to the Dept. of Modern Languages at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Trondheim, November, 2005. Soft-cover, 198 pages.
  
  Her thesis attempts to answer the question of what kind of contact or relations existed between Norwegian-Americans and Jewish-Americans in North Minneapolis and the general quality of their relationships. The author observes that the Minneapolis public schools and high school clubs and organizations were successful in bringing the greatest number of ethnically diverse groups together.