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Yngvar Sønnichsen papers, 1896-1937
Biography, clippings, correspondence, scrapbooks, and pictures dealing with the career of a Norwegian-born artist. Educated in Norway, Belgium, and Paris, Sønnichsen emigrated in 1904. His best known works are his picture panels in the New Brunswick (Canada) church windows, his portraits of Roald Amundsen and Ole Bull, the murals in Seattle's Norway House, and his Alaska landscapes. He is a brother of architect S. Engelhart Sønnichsen. -
Aashild Sørheim manuscript, 1980
Copy of a 200-page manuscript by a Norwegian writer: "To FedrelandEller Intet? Emigrantproblemet slik O. E. Rolvaag har fremstilt det i romanserien "I De Dage." The author states that her purpose in writing the book was to make O. E. Rolvaag known in Norway and to awaken understanding of the problems of migration -
Rasmus Sørnes clippings, undated
Article from a Norwegian newspaper describing an astronomical clock made by Rasmus Sørnes, a technician at the Jeløy radio station in Norway. The clock was purchased by Seth G. Atwood for the Time Museum which he donated to the city of Rockford, Illinois.
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Carl Søyland papers, 1916-1976
Articles, clippings, correspondence, manuscripts, unpublished research notes, lectures, and a scrapbook of a Norwegian-born journalist and author, who came to the United States about 1920 to study music, but who found the life of a "tramp-journalist" more interesting. He traveled all over the world writing for newspapers, sometimes using the pseudonym Viggo Vey. He edited "California Vikingen" (1924-1925) in Los Angeles. In 1926 he began his association with the Brooklyn, New York, newspaper "Nordisk Tidende," of which he became chief editor (1941-1962). He is the author of two books, both published in Norway: "Langs landeveien" (1929) and "Skrift i sand" (1954). -
Anna T. Spafford papers, 1894-1930
Copies of letters written in 1894 to Abraham Jacobson, Decorah, Iowa, and copies of newspaper clippings (1897-1950) telling the story of the American colony in Jerusalem, which had been founded by Horatio Gates Spafford and his wife, who was born in Stavanger. Anna Larsen Spafford had come to Chicago with her family in the 1850s, where she continued to live until her departure for Jerusalem in 1881. Other members of the family had moved to Goodhue County, Minnesota, among them Edward Larsen (1838-1911), a half-brother. She is portrayed as Mrs. Gordon in Selma Lagerlöf's novel Jerusalem. Sven Hedin gives a sympathetic picture of the group in Till Jerusalem. Her daughter Bertha Spafford Vester published Our Jerusalem, an American Family in the Holy City. -
Carlo A. Sperati biography, 1970
Biographical sketch by Barbara L. Bauman, prepared for a course in Music Education by a public school teacher in Edina, Minnesota. It contains a bibliography. Sperati, an ordained minister, came in 1905 to Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, where he stayed for the rest of his life. He had a distinguished career as a teacher of music, band director, choral director, and promoter of musical interest in the church and in the nation, as well as at Luther College. -
C.M Stade narratives, 1940-1945, undated
Three unpublished narratives by Stade of Hopkins, Minnesota: "The First Norwegian Stades," "Van Der Ostade," and "In a Highland Valley." -
Olaf Stageberg papers, 1924-1946
"Poems of Olaf Stageberg," compiled by his son Rolf Stageberg, with translations by Clarence Carlsen and Rosanna Gutterudjohnsrud; "Olaf Stageberg and Family"; "Remarks at the Funeral of...," by Julius Boraas (1 page, Sept. 4, 1946); and a photocopy of "Trøndere i Goodhue County, Minnesota," from "Trønderlagets aarbok 1924". Stageberg taught at Jewell Lutheran College, 1895-1905; Waldorf College, 1906-1908; and Red Wing Seminary, 1908-1932. -
Susie Williamson Stageberg papers, 1867-1958
Writings and memorabilia (222 pages) of the daughter of Norwegian immigrants who was active in education, politics, and journalism in Iowa and Minnesota. Among the papers is a diary kept when she was a "validated member of the press" at the Congress for Disarmament and International Cooperation in Stockholm, July, 1958. She was influential in the Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota and was candidate for Secretary of State in 1922, 1924, and 1928. She ran for Lieutenant Governor on the Progressive Party ticket in 1950.
Includes seven letters to Ms. Stageberg's parents from a family on the Sagaard farm in Rogaland, 1867-1888. See Minnesota Historical Society P2662 Stageberg Papers. -
Charles E. Stangeland articles, 1905-1928
Scandinavian and American Culture, originally a lecture given before Det Norske Selskab in Washington, D.C., on January 26, 1910 and later published in "Idun," 1910, Chicago, and 17 clippings (1905-1928). Stangeland was a professor of political economy at the State College in Pullman, Washington, and a professor at the University of Berlin. He was born in Iowa and graduate of Augsburg College.
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Charles E. Stangeland Article: Scandinavian and American Culture.