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"Settlement Patterns for Immigrants from Verdal, Norway, a Survey and Analysis," a study prepared by a Norwegian student at St. Olaf College, 1981-1982, as part of a preparation for a thesis to be completed at the University of Trondheim.
Four file folders of source materials related to the thesis topic are included in the collection.
"In this series of interviews by Odd Lovoll for his books “The Promise of America: History of the Norwegian-American People” and “The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today,” Lovoll interviews Andreas Rhude.
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Includes "Biography of E. E. Rear and Wife Anne" (1-page typescript translation, includes a photocopy of 1-page Norwegian document); "Biography of Haldor Ostensen Rye and His Family" (4 page typescript translation, includes photocopy of 8 page Norwegian document); newspaper photocopy "From This Corner in Adams" (August 16th, 1973) which mentions Gullik Rear; newspaper photocopy of obituary for "Edith M. Severson" granddaughter of Gullik Rear. Also includes a list of church and community anniversary booklets which are filed separately.
Biographical material regarding Collin's grandparents, John Hansen and Louisa Olson, both from Bergen, Norway. Includes documents from Hansen's seafaring days and certificates of discharge, 1884-1891.
Formerly part of P539.
A Springfield, Minnesota, newspaper account of a 108-year-old Norwegian American, as she reminisced about her long life in Minnesota, to which she came as a member of her family in 1884. (transferred to Rowberg File)
Typescript copy of an article which first appeared in the "Grand Forks Herald" about scouting for land in the Red River Valley, North Dakota, by her father, Halvor Lars Sando.
Translation entitled "One Year in Utah," prepared by Helge Seljaas for a course at the University of Utah in 1976. The original book by Julie Ingerøe, "Et Aar i Utah, eller Mormonismens Hemmligheder," was published in Chicago in 1867 and tells of the author's conversion to Mormonism, her journey to Utah, her stay there and her disenchantment with the beliefs and practices of the Mormons.
Copy of a "Dagbog over Atlanterhav" kept by a passenger on the ship "Thingvalla" during the voyage of July 27-August 14, 1882. A translation by Serena Bjornstad is appended.
Autobiography, pamphlets, and family correspondence of a Norwegian forester who came to Connecticut in 1896 and was educated at Yale University, earning a Master's degree in forestry in 1910. After serving posts in Montana and Idaho he joined the faculty of the Forestry Department at Iowa State University at Ames, where he continued until retirement. Many letters are from members of Jenny Spiechermann Larson's family. She came from Oslo to Connecticut to work as a governess where they met and married in 1911.
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Autobiography (biographical notes). Includes: "Whithersoever I have Roamed," by Julius Ansgar Larsen. ( 1974, 21 p. typescript)
"Poems of a Forester," by Julius Ansgar Larsen. (28 p. typescript). Includes photo of author, 1970
Travel diary, 1956
Letters of Johs. Larson (his brother), 1936
Letters: Fragments & undated.
Letters (1910-1920)
Mrs. Larson's letters to her husband. Includes a postcard collection from the Norges Jubilæumsutstilling (1914)