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Correspondence, anniversary programs, certificates, clippings, pictures, and pamphlets of a Chicago publishing house founded in 1866 by John Anderson (1836-1910). Among the items are the first issue of "Skandinaven" after the Chicago fire in 1871, biographical sketches, letters concerning politics, photographs of the company, "The Story of Skandinaven, 1866-1916." Knute Nelson and Victor Lawson were correspondents.
Contents:
Pictures, undated
Photographs of the company & employees.
Clippings, 1871-1955
Photos, and programs,1869-1939
Includes property deed, Ticket to the Republican National Convention (1888); inaugural ceremonies program, map, and pass to the Columbian Exposition (1892); clipping and news print photo of the men on board the "Viking" (1893); ship past on board the steamer, "Howard Carroll"; pass for the steamship "New York" (1893); pass to steamer, "Ivanhoe," program for "Banquet tendered to Paul Du Chaillu" (1894); program for Dr. Fridtjof Nansen (1897); large ribbon for election of "William H. Taft" (1909); banquet program for Crown Prince of Norway (1939);
Pamphlets and programs,1899-1946
Includes "The Roll of Pioneer Chicago Firms" (1946)
Correspondence,1854-1941
Includes correspondence from Knute Nelson, Victor Lawson, and the Kirsten Flagstad Concert Committee.
Skandinaven newspaper, 1932, 1940-1941
Marijane Carr,1985-2017
Includes: Information/ obituary for Carr; Letter to Odd Lovoll from Rolf Erickson on Carr's project; Family Genealogy; Accepting a Challenge, by Jenny Meuller, (1985); and The Skandinaven & The Cradle, by Marijane Carr (circa 1985).
Papers written for the program leading to an M. A. degree at the University of Wisconsin.
Includes:
"'Han Ola og Han Per,' language and literature in the comic strips of Peter Julius Rosendahl" by Bengston, prepared for Scandinavian 1975: Seminar in Immigrant Research, April 1977.; added January 2008: Tormod Kinnes' MA thesis, "The Humor of Han Ola og han Per taken seriously," (Trondheim, May 2007)
"A study of lexical interference in the English of Norwegian-Americans" by Bengston (1975). "The paper is basically a survey of English as spoken by Minnesotans of Norwegian descent, pointing out influences in vocabulary from Norwegian."