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Nordisk Tidende local history clippings, 1924-1991
Pamphlets published by "Nordisk Tidende," including detailed facts about Brooklyn Norwegians as to homes, shops, income, clubs, churches, building trades, newspapers, etc.
ncludes: Newsletter: Facts about Norwegians as workers, earners and spenders of American dollars. no. 1-11; Hvordan "Nordisk Tidende" blir til, with an appendix: an x-ray picture of a Norwegian-American colony. 31 p.; Facts about the Norwegian American colony in Brooklyn, N.Y.; published in connection with "Nordisk Tidende's" 50th anniversary. 32 p.; Introducing the third largest "Norwegian" city, metropolitan New-York. 31 p.; facts about "Nordisk Tidende," vol. 1 nos. l-4, June-Sept. 1930; "That letter home ... (from St.Olaf College) 1939 (by Oleanna, i.e., Norma (Arnesen) Knutson). 1 sheet; and clippings, including reprint of history published in "Symra," 1914, by P.S. Christensen. -
Norwegian National League or Minneapolis records, 1920-2002
Programs, reports, clippings, and brochures of an organization designed to coordinate common goals of Norwegian organizations not controlled by church, political parties, or corporations.
Includes clippings and brochure about "Fællesreisen fra Norge" (1933, 1934, 1936, and 1937, sponsored by Nordmands-Forbundet and the Norwegian-American Line, including information about a "Norske Fest" sponsored by the Minneapolis Norwegian National League, 1933. -
Norway Letters, 1842-1998
An assortment of letters written in Norway to friends and family in the United States.
Includes:- Copy of a letter from Olea Lovise Tobiasdatter Føinum, (dated May 17, 1891) to her cousin, and a copy of an English translation; correspondence from Mrs. Martin Olson; correspondence to Andreas Lein from his mother, O. Valberg
- Letters (1842, 1844) written to Ole Larsen (Dodgeville, Wis.) by his father Lars Hansen Bjørge, Sande "Herred" Vestfold "fylke." ("Sandeboka, 1939, p. 420); Other correspondence, (1930, 1998)
- Letters donated by Carl F. Arneson
- Photocopy of letters written by C.C. Diesen to his son Axel Diesen in Minnesota.
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Norwegian-American Women's Club of Detroit records, 1940-1950
Correspondence, records, and clippings of a society organized to raise relief funds for Norway.
Includes:- Photo wood cut of Nils H.F. Olsen, 1940
- Correspondence, 1940-1950
- Partial list of Ford Motor Co. individual contributions to Relief Fund for Norway (1940). "Object of the club: work for relief for Norwegians as long as Norway is at war and until she is re-habilitated."; reprint from the "Saturday Evening Post," "The Norwegians as Citizens." (n.d., no author)
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Norwegian Immigration student papers, 1926-1950
General statements, genealogies, family histories, and histories of pioneer settlements by students who studied under O. E. Rolvaag at St. Olaf College. Includes a chart of emigration statistics by region, 1860-1925. -
Odin Lyceum Bureau, Inc., records, 1917-1918
Papers of Norwegian-American Chautauqua and Lyceum, Minneapolis. Gisle Bothne, Nicolay Grevstad, Jacob A. O. Preus, and Theodor S. Reimestad were among the promoters and lecturers. The catalog includes photographs of Odin Male Quartette (led by Reimestad); Senator E.E. Lobeck; Ragnhild Holmquist; Mathilde Hansen-Raunborg; Leone J. Berge; Gisle Bothne; Arthur Markve; I.M. Kalnes. -
Pine Lake Scandinavian Congregation papers, 1841-1963
Correspondence, records, clippings, and pictures of a Scandinavian congregation near Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, affiliated with the Protestant Episcopal Church. -
Aaberg Academy papers, 1888-1903
Correspondence and reports concerning a Devils Lake, North Dakota, school held by Pastor Ole H. Aaberg for his parishioners during the winter months from 1888 to 1903. -
Albion Academy papers, 1901-1918
Articles, correspondence, catalogs, and reports of a secondary school at Albion, Wisconsin, founded in 1854 by the Seventh Day Baptist Church and operated by Norwegian Lutheran congregations in the area from 1901 to 1918. From 1901 to 1906 operated under the name H.A. Preus Lutheran Academy. In June 1906 adopted the name Albion Academy.
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Atterdag College catalogues, 1911
Catalogues of a Danish-American secondary school in Santa Barbara, California in 1911.