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Ludvig Marius Biørn papers, 1886-1995
A slightly abbreviated translation by Ansgar Sovik of Biørn's Pastor P. A. Rasmussen, en livsskitse (1906), 125 pages. Translation by Boral B. Bjorn of two pamphlets published in 1887 and 1890. Kan en kristen staa udenfor menigheten? 7 pages. Poem: Paa Foreningsdagen, 1890, 1 page. "Three Hymns from Landstad Salmebog by L. M. Biørn and translated by O. M. Kleven," 11 pages. "Three Hymns by Ludvig M. Bjørn; an Essay by Boral R. Bjørn" (1995).
Includes: 2 pamphlets (1888, n.d.); newspaper clippings (1886); family pedigree information. -
Karl S. Birkeland letters, 1872-1892
Letters from family and friends to a Norwegian emigrant from Sunnfjord to Michigan, 1872. He was a farmer at Benona, Oceana County, Michigan. Later letters address him as Charles Burke. Six pages of notes on family history are included. -
Konrad Birkhaug volumes, 1946
Birkhaug, born in Bergen, emigrated in 1912; graduate of Johns Hopkins University in medicine; joined the faculty of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, to which he returned in 1945 after a period at Chr. Michelsens Institut in Bergen; Resident of Bergen, 1970.
Includes three volumes of typescript of Birkhaug's translation of his book entitled "Telavag [Televaag]: Fiskevaeret som tyskerne slettet ut i 1942" (Oslo, 1946). Title of translation is "Tela Bay: The Norwegian Fishing Village Destryed by the Germans." Tela Bay, located on an island near Bergen, was an important center of traffic with England during World War II. -
Bjerke family history, 1967
Family history of the Erik and Berthe Marie Bjerke family, 1818-1967. -
Kenneth O. Bjork papers, 1935-1997
Correspondence, book reviews, speeches, offprints of articles, personal financial papers of a professor of history at St. Olaf College and NAHA editor, 1960-1980. -
Ola Bjorland songbook, 1895
"Sanger" A compilation of 190 Norwegian folk songs, religious and secular, in Norwegian and English, compiled by the minister of the Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church in Chicago for use on informal occasions. -
Cornelia Cleophas Bjorlee papers, 1901-2003
She was born in Kensett, Iowa, and in 1911 studied music in Vienna, Austria, under Otokar Sevcik until 1914. At the outbreak of World War I, Cornelia returned to the U.S. and continued her studies at the Julliard School of Music from 1915-1916. Cornelia married Ignatius Bjorlee, who graduated from St. Olaf College in 1909. She helped her husband with his work at the Maryland School for the Deaf in Frederick, Maryland. The couple retired to their farm in Albert Lea, Minnesota. He passed away in 1968, and she moved to Northfield, Minnesota, in 1978. -
Dreng Bjornaraa clippings, 1919-1987
Newspaper items and some correspondence collected by a Norwegian American who lived in Minneapolis and had a varied career as a journalist, educator, federal government officer, and public relations officer for U. S. Steel.
The clippings cover his interests in Norwegian-American activities. He sat on a number of boards: Lutheran Brotherhood, Fairview Hospital, and St. Olaf College. Family clippings concerning Bjorgulv Bjornaraa (1878-1942, father of Dreng Bjornaraa); Thorwald Bjornaraa (1909-1985, Dreng's brother); Bud Bjornaraa (Dreng's nephew); Knut Helland (1880-1919); and Clarence C. Knudsen (1902-1987); Obituary of Dreng Bjornaraa; Correspondence of Bjorgulv Bjornaraa; Photograph of Dreng Bjornaraa at a NAHA banquet, 1919-1987; Correspondence of Dreng Bjornaraa, 1951-1981; Nordmanns Forbundet correspondence and clippings, 1951-1981; Norwegian American Sesquicentennial clippings, 1975; Bernhard Knudsen correspondence and obituary, 1927-1945; Olav, King of Norway, clippings, 1975-1976; Vesterheim clippings, 1965-1976; and Norwegians in the U.S. clippings, 1951-1986. -
Arne M. Bjorndal journal, 1940
The journal of Arne Bjørndal, who was involved in resistance activities following the German invasion on April 9, 1940. The journal documents his experiences in Norway between April 9–20, 1940. It includes My Early Years: From School Days to War Time, which reflects on his early years in Norway, the invasion of Norway, becoming a “citizen arrestee,” and being sent to Ebreichsdorf sanitorium on the Austria/Hungary border. Transcription and translation of journal provided. -
Magnus Bjorndal papers, 1849-1987
Papers of a Norwegian-born American engineer, who came to the United States in 1922 and who founded and was president of Technical Laboratories in Weehawken, New Jersey. A leader in many Norwegian-American activities, he also did considerable research on the Norwegian discovery of America. He was president of NAHA, 1969-1971.