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A collection of extended family letters written from Chicago, Eau Claire, and Kvalshaug, Norway, by siblings, in-laws, nieces and nephews of Randi Larsdatter Øien Flatreit, the only one of eight children to remain in Norway from the last generation to be raised at the Øyegrinde husmanns place at Nedre Øien. A letter explaining the family relationships is enclosed.
"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.
Records of a local Bygdelag organized by immigrants from Stavanger in Chicago, whose stated purpose was to sustain Stavanger traditions and ties. For a time the group published a newsletter, Mortepumpen.
Correspondence, book reviews, speeches, offprints of articles, personal financial papers of a professor of history at St. Olaf College and NAHA editor, 1960-1980.
Minutes, correspondence, and newspaper clippings concerning a Minneapolis men's athletic club organized by a merger of Norge Athletic Club and the Norse Sports Club. The members were active in soccer, skiing, and skating. The club gradually became inactive, but members gathered for social fellowship until formal dissolution of the Club in 1983.
A church register that lists members, officers, etc. of the Square Norsk Baptist Menighet. The minutes from 1908 to 1918 are in Norwegian. The file includes six pages of photocopied material concerning the church.
A list of materials used for writing a history of the Norwegian settlement in Brooklyn. This study led to Mauk's The Colony That Rose from the Sea, published by NAHA in 1998.
A pamphlet published by La Porte County, Indiana, Historical Society; an article by Robert F. Coffeen; and a reproduced copy of the dust jacket of a book about a notorious immigrant from Selbu, who came to Chicago in the 1890s. Belle Gunness is believed to have been a serial killer. There is a mystery about what finally happened to her.
For additional information, see Mrs. Gunness: nutidens største forbryder kvinde, by Lars Stenholt, Minneapolis, 1908, in the NAHA book collection.
"Feminists and Church Leaders: Norwegian-American Women in Transition, 1850-1920," a report submitted to the American Studies Committee at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts.
The writer is a grand-daughter of Peter Norbeck, who served in the United States Senate from South Dakota