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Sverre Utseth articles, 1956
Articles on emigration from Trondheim which appeared in Arbeider-Avisa, June 2-23, 1956.; Contents: "Sophie's mislykte ferd i 1850 med trondere paa gullgraving; Blad om de tronderske utvandreres forste reis; Amerikaferberen faar form av en epidmie, Selbu og Meraaker blandt de bydene som ble tappet for mest arbeidskraft; Svenskene var et saerlig ettertraktet vilt for emigrantbetjentene i byen. -
Garfield A. Stensland interview, 1985
An interview conducted November 5, 1985 at 7251 W. Thorndale Ave., Chicago, Il 60631 by Hazel Anderson. Includes a letter pertaining to his induction into the 1984 Senior Citizens Hall of Fame, and one of 1981 about the family of his grandfather Aanen Aanensen Stensland, of Jaeren. Born in Chicago, Garfield first worked in banks, but after study at Northwestern University he became administrator of the Norwood Park Home for the Aged in Chicago. He was licensed as a lay preacher, and was active in several male choruses. "In 1984 he received the St. Olaf Medal at Edison Park Lutheran Church for his outstanding service to the church and his community." -
Norge ship clippings, 1904-2000
Clippings and other information about a Danish emigrant ship (Thingvalla Line) which sank June 28, 1904 after hitting Rockall (400 miles from the Orkneys) with the largest loss of life in the Atlantic before the sinking of the Titanic. Only 168 people of the more than 700 passengers and 68 crew were rescued; most were emigrants from Eastern Europe, with some from Norway. Contents.
Advertisement for book Titanic's predecessor: the S/S Norge disaster of 1904 (Bergan, Seaward Publishing, 2004) by Per Kristian Sebak; also for Sebak's book Titanic: 31 Norwegian destinies (1998) which gives information about the 31 Norwegian passengers on the Titanic, only 10 of whom survived. Correspondence (2003) between Eleanore B. Lundeberg (whose father's sister and family were lost) and Kevin J. Heath, who located the wreck and is working on a filmed documentary; and Philip K. Lundeberg and Paul Johnston. Photocopy of page in book The Atlantic ferry in the 20th century by F.R. Corsin (1921) describing the incident.
Photocopy of article in Feb. 4, 1939 New York Sun. copies of obituaries (1956, 1964) of Helmer and Karen Fosmoe, who survived the wreck. Copy of Lorraine Shearer's article in the Orcadian Features (Aug. 14, 2003), 13 p.; Added 2004: photocopy of article by Thor Bjarne Bore, (The Norseman, May 2004, pp. 43-47) reviewing Sebak's book. -
Philip Karl Boraas Lundeberg papers, circa 1940-2017
Born in Minneapolis into a distinguished Norwegian-American family (see papers of other Lundebergs), Lundeberg was educated at Duke University and Harvard University, where he was assistant to Samuel E. Morison. He was officer on the destroyer escort "Frederick C. Davis" when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat near the close of World War II. He taught at St. Olaf College and the Naval Academy, but most of his career was as a naval curator at the Smithsonian Institution.
He collected and donated papers of his relatives to NAHA, 1987-2003. Includes:- Abstract Ship Log in Historical Perspective of U.S.S. Frederick C. Davis, 1941-1945;
- German Naval Critique of the U-Boat Campaign by Philip Lundeberg, 1963, Military Affairs; Oral History Program from Naval Historical Foundation, 2003;
- Correspondence with Forrest Brown and Philip Lundeberg. Added Nov. 8, 2012: Philip K. Lundeberg, "Undersea Warfare and Allied Strategy in World War I (The Smithsonian Journal of History, Vol. 1, 1966).
- Lundeberg, Philip K., Arthur B. Cohn and Jennifer Jones. Tale of Three Gunboats: Lake Champlain’s Revolutionary War Heritage (National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 2017).
- In the spring of 1776, the Lake Champlain Valley became a pivotal location in the American War for Independence. The British invasion from Canada and subsequent battle for naval supremacy of this strategic waterway was critical to the Americans' eventual success in later years. With General Benedict Arnold leading the American effort, the combatants met on October 11, 1776, at the Battle of Valcour Island. This and other wartime encounters on Lake Champlain left behind a legacy of shipwrecks and an underwater archaeological collection.
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Karl R. Lundeberg papers, 1928-1954
Lundeberg was born at Kenyon, Minn., son of the Rev. Knut O. Lundeberg (see his papers). He received his medical degree from the University of Minnesota in 1925, also studied hygiene at the University of Paris and the London School of Tropical Medicine. In 1930 he joined the Army as a specialist in preventive medicine, working at Washington and San Antonio. During World War II he was chief of preventive medicine for American forces in India and Burma. After the war he was chief of medical affairs in the public welfare branch of the Office of the High Commission for Germany, until 1950 when he became director of the Army Experimental Health Branch before becoming health commissioner of Minneapolis, 1954 to 1964. Includes clippings, printouts from Army Medical Department publications, photograph, letters (1940-1980). 1947-64 personal records.- My Boyhood, manuscript written in English, 18 pgs, by Knut Olavson Lundeberg (transcribed/partial. N.B. Another copy exist in the NAHA collections). Lundeberg, born in 1859 at Bjornflaten in the Kviteseid parish of the upper Telemark, Norway, 1941
- Personal Files (folders 3-12). File 3 "retirement" as Minneapolis Commissioner of Health (1964) 1954-1964
- Personal Files (folders 1-6). A vinyl flexograph recording is located in the 1951 file 1947-1953
- Miscellaneous. Includes obituaries of Dr. Lundeberg; "Venereal Disease Control in the Peacetime Army" written by Lundeberg as Chief of Preventive Medicine Division of the Office of the Surgeon General (1947); copy of "Vaccination in the Army," speech given by Lundeberg at the convention of the National Grange (1946); photo of the presentation of the Legion of Merit to Colonel Lundeberg in Burma (1945); newspaper clipping "May Dedication is Health Center Goal" (1957); newspaper clipping "Dr. Lundeberg to Quit as Health Commissioner"; Folders 3-12 personal papers and correspondence. 1990 1954
- Photograph of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, March-July, 1928; "Harold S. Diehl Award" presented to Lundeberg, '26; correspondence to Colonel Karl R. Lundeberg from Frank Fremont-Smith, 1950; photograph, unmarked and undated.
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Anna Minde letter, 1884 June 28
A letter dated June 28, 1884, Jackson, to Peter Peterson Havreberg. Havreberg (Feb. 19, 1833 Luster- Oct. 25, 1894) emigrated 1853 and was a pastor a Jackson, Minn. And missionary in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa, 1883-1894. Secretary Elling Synod, 1883-1887; vice-pres., 1887-1890. -
Syver Aslaksen Vestedahl papers, 1794-1930
Includes:- Leather purse;
- Books: Dr. Erich Pontoppidans Forklaring, Bergen, 1831; Dr. Erich Pontoppidans Forklaring, Christiania, 1865; Dr. Martin Luthers Katekismus, Decorah, 1880; Dr. Henrich Millers Evangeliske Kierke-Speyl, Kiobenhaven (Copenhagen), 1794; St. Olaf College commencement exercises booklet, 1928.
- Correspondence, letters and postcards, 1856-1889.
- Mortgage and warranty deeds
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Ole Olsen and Ellen Kravik Løkensgaard diaries, 1878-1997
Diaries of Ole and his wife Ellen (Kravik) during their courtship and the early years of their marriage. Ole was born at Aal, Hallingdal, and emigrated in 1857 with his family to Rice county, Minn., later settling in Nicollet co., Ellen's parents emigrated from Sigdal and Flesberg in 1842-1843, married in 1845 in Koshkonong, where she was born in 1860. The couple met when he was a student at Luther Seminary and she at Monona Academy, both in Madison, WI. They married 1881 and Ole served churches at Granite Falls, Minn. They had five children, only two surviving infancy. After Ellen died in 1892, Ole remarried in 1894 and was president of the Lutheran Normal School at Madison, 1892-1906, editor of Lutheraneren 1908-1921.; 15 diaries are included, 5 by Ole (box 1), 10 by Ellen (box 2-3) . Notebooks and an autograph album of Ellen are included. Enlarged photocopies of the diaries are included. Solveig Zempel has translated the diaries; see her speech at the Koshkonong Prairie Historical Society, printed in the Autumn 2004 Prairie News (photocopy included). The diaries were given to NAHA by David Hardy. See also the Lokensgaard Family Papers, P963. -
Solveig Zempel collection of America letters, undated
Photocopies of 1,274 America letters collected in preparation for her book In their own works: letters from Norwegian immigrants, published in 1991 by the University of Minnesota Press in cooperation with NAHA. The letters were collected from NAHA, Minnesota Historical Society, many private collections, and "more that a thousand letters" were collected in Norwegian archive in 1984. Zempel selected letters from nine immigrants which she translated and edited.
In some cases, letters from the donor, translations, and related materials are included. Box 7 includes a computer print-out (285 p.) which gives for each letter: number, archive, sender, place from, date, receiver, place to, subjects, evaluation, language, remarks. Also, a subject index.
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Carl T. Solberg papers, 1884-1999
Son of a prominent Lutheran pastor, Carl K. Solberg, Solberg grew up mainly in Minneapolis and graduated from St. Olaf College in 1935. He and a friend briefly published a newspaper in Pierce County, North Dakota. He received a Rhodes Scholarship and studied at Oxford 1936-1939. He joined the staff of Time Magazine, but when war broke out he joined the Navy, ending up as an air intelligence officer on the staff of Admiral Halsey, Commander of the Third Fleet. At the end of the war Solberg rejoined Time and covered international affairs, writing several cover stories. In 1967 he left Time to become a free lance writer. He published five books, including a biography of Hubert H. Humphrey which the Minnesota Historical society issued in paperback in 2003. His last book, on the China Lobby, did not find a publisher. See also the papers of his brother Richard, P1656.