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Gulbrand Sether clippings, 1941-1978
Clippings and a letter concerning a Norwegian-born artist and author who lived and worked in Chicago. -
Eric Sevareid article, 1949-1992
An article that appeared in "Collier's" (May 11, 1956), titled "You Can Go Home Again," recounts his experiences on a visit to his native Velva, North Dakota, a "New York Times" obituary, July 10, 1992, and other clippings including sketch of his Norwegian background. Sevareid was CBS's chief Washington correspondent, an award-winning news interpreter, author, and lecturer. -
First Reserve: Autobiography on Susan Jane Severson
An autobiography written for “children, sisters, cousins of all degrees, close friends and for anyone interested in learning the history of a second to fourth generation Norwegian-American growing up in Wisconsin in the 1940–1960s.” Included are stories of Eau Claire, St. Olaf College, Minneapolis, and her work as a registered nurse at Fairview and the University of Minnesota Hospitals. -
Ole Hendricks and his tune book: Folk music and community on the frontier
Ole Hendricks was an immigrant both representative and exceptional—a true artistic talent who nevertheless lived a familiar immigrant experience. By day, he was a farmer. But at night, his fiddle lit up dance halls, bringing together all manner of neighbors in rural Minnesota. Each tune in his repertoire of waltzes, reels, polkas, quadrilles, and more were copied neatly into his commonplace book. Such tunebooks, popular during the nineteenth century, rarely survive and are often overlooked by folk scholars in favor of commercially produced recordings, published sheet music, or oral tradition. Based on extensive historical and genealogical research, Amy Shaw presents a grounded picture of a musician, his family, and his community in the Upper Midwest, revealing much about music and dance in the area. This notable contribution to regional music and folklore includes more than one hundred of Ole's dance tunes, transcribed into modern musical notation for the first time. Ole Hendricks and His Tunebook will be valuable to readers and scholars interested in ethnomusicology and the Norwegian American immigrant experience. Written by Amy M. Shaw. Shaw is a musician, archivist, and the head of archives and special collections at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Published by University of Wisconsin Press. -
Nina Kathryne Shimmin thesis, 2005
Thesis presented for B.A. at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. "Growing Up Norwegian: The Early Years of Inga Appelseth Johnson and her life on the Minnesota Prairie, 1902-1925" (2005). Inga's parents (Johan and Johanna Skarstein Apalset) immigrated in 1884 to Yellow Medicine County, Clarksfield area. -
Henrik Shipstead papers, 1925-1946
History/Biography:
Born in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, 1991. He attended the Dental College at Northwestern University, Chicago, and opened a dental office in Glenwood, Minnesota where he first became politically active. He first served as mayor of the village and later as a member of the state legislature. In 1918, Shipstead was pitted against Andrew Volstead for Congress by the Nonpartisan League, but was ultimately defeated. Two years later the same organization put him forward for the Republican nomination for governor, but was defeated in a close race by J.A.O. Preus. From that race, Shipstead gained various acquaintances and prestige that helped him receive endorsement by the new Farmer-Labor Party two years later – a race he won against Frank Kellogg. As a member of the senate, he served as the chairman of the Printing Committee, member of Foreign Relations, Agriculture, Public Buildings, and Grounds, Pensions, and Joint Printing Committee of the House and Senate.
Scope and Content:
Letters, reports, and speeches of, and articles and clippings (1920-1941) about a United States senator from Minnesota (1923-1947).
Speeches by Shipstead include:
- "Christianity and Politics" (1925)
- "National Origins Clause," (1927)
- "'Dollar Diplomacy'" in Latin America," (1927)
- "Relation of Inland Waterways to Agriculture," (1931)
- "Injunctions in labor Disputes," (1931)
- Bill to authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the discovery of America by Leif Ericson (Erikson), (1939)
- "Repeal of the Embargo is not Neutrality," (1939)
- "A Preliminary Report on the Status of Agriculture in World Economy," (1939?)
- The Fourth of July, the Nation's Birthday, (1940 and 1941)
- "Speaking on Bill H.R. 1776," (1941)
- "Statement Regarding Finland," (1941)
- "Subsidies," (1943)
- "Post-War Commitments by United Nations," (1943-44)
- "1932--Roosevelt Emphatically Against League of Nations--Reversed During the Past 12 Years," (1944)
- "Have the American People Yet to Learn that of all the Pious talk to the Contrary, Peace Cannot be Enforced Without Creating War? (1945)
- "Relief of Sick and Hungry People in Europe Address Before Lutheran Men's Council Slave Labor in Europe," (1945)
- "The Place of the United States in the Postwar World," (1946).
Clippings inlcude:
- "En Spelmans Jordafard" by Dan Anderson
- "Senator Henrik Shipstead, his Boyhood and Youth," by N.N. Ronning
- "Senator Shipstead i Kviteseid" by N. N. Ronning
- "Henrik Shipstead, a forgotten idol" by Carl H. Chrislock, from "Telesoga" (Dec. 1994, pp. 28-35), reprinted from "Gamalt fraa Kviteseid," no. 8, 1993
- From C.G.O.Hansen clipping collection, including Shipstead addresses of 1939 and 1940, and article by N.N. Ronning, "The Friend," July 1930, pp. 12-13. Also his article ("Skandinaven," Oct. 6, 1936) reporting on his visit to Alaska.
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Karl Siewers papers, 1868-1992
Expedition from Christiana printed in commemoration of the 100th anniversary, Alfred Collett Siewers, born July, 1871, by Karl Siewers. 3 mimeographed copies; a collection of translated letters, biographical data, photographs, facsimiles. Letters center around Lyder Siewers and his wife Thrine Brandt Siewers who came in 1868 to Decorah, Iowa where he taught at Luther College (1863 - 1877) and was later an editor at Decorah-Posten (1877 - 1907). Mrs. Siewers made three trips to Norway and died there in 1908. A sister, Adda Siewers, accompanied the pair to Decorah. The trio moved to a farm beside a spring outside Decorah. The farm was later owned by members of the Hjelle family, relatives in the Brandt line. The spring is called Siewers Spring, and is the location of an Iowa State Fish Hatchery.
Includes:
- 3 copies of "Expedition from Christiania" printed in commemoration of the 100th anniversary, Alfred Collett Siewers, born July, 1871, by Karl Siewers; a sequel to "Expedition from Christiana' which contains brief 1992 reviews of the Siewer and Brandt families as well as miscellaneous letters, documents, and information that were not included in 'Expedition'; Harold Haarfagre Chart, thirty-eight generations of a Norwegian family (including eleven generations of the Siewers family); "Far Flung Norwegian Families: Siewers/Brandt, volume II: The Past" by Karl Siewers, 1992. 154 p.
- Items used at the Chicago Sesquicentennial Exhibit; Harold Haarfagre Chart: thirty-eight generations of a Norwegian family (including eleven generations of the Siewers family); photocopies of title pages of books owned by Lyder Siewers, and information about Alfred Collett (1840 - 1870) who was a close friend.
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Ernest G. W. Sihler papers, 1968
Sihler was Assistant Archivist of The American Lutheran Church (1968).
Includes:- Chart of Lutheran synods comprising the American Lutheran Church; Translation of abbreviations, words, and phrases found in O. M. Norlie, "Norsk Lutherske Menigheter i Amerika, 1843-1916"; and a translation key to rubrics in parochial reports of Norwegian Lutheran synods (1968).
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Ogu Siljan family papers, 1936
A biography of O. G. U. Siljan (1870-1936), Lutheran clergyman in Madison, Wisconsin, and a genealogy of the Gullickson (Graue) family, Voss, Norway (1240-1906), of which his wife was a member. -
Iver Simley papers, 1860-1928
Correspondence of a Norwegian-born farmer, merchant, banker, and realtor at Black Earth, Wisconsin. The letters, dealing largely with family and religious matters, were written at Black Earth and Amery, Wisconsin, Decorah, Iowa, and Benson, Minnesota. Congressman Ole J. Kvale (brother-in-law) was a correspondent. Of interest is an auction bill issued by Simley's father Ole just before his emigration in 1869 (mentioned by Ingrid Semmingensen in "Veien mot vest," I pp. 97-98). The family emigrated from Valdres, 1868-1869. Includes several warranty deeds and mortgage papers (1863-1888) presumably on property owned by Simley. Includes letters written to Ingrid Simley in Norway by her cousin Markus O. Dahle and her pastor J.N. Skaar (later bishop of Tromsø and Trondheim), letters from John E. (Dennison, MN), Anand S. Hiwale, Maria and Lars M. Sundheim, James D. Butler, and various family members, and Ingri Simley's letters to them. A memorial pamphlet (written by S. Gunderson), and an article about Ingrid Simley (photocopy) which appeared in "Samband" (March 1931).