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Interviews conducted by Luther College faculty and students with elderly residents of the Decorah, Iowa area during 1975 for the course "Winneshiek County Foxfire" taught by Torres. The interviews were first published in the student newspaper. Five were published in "Annals of Iowa," Winter 1976. These and other interviews were published in book form with the title "Conversations with the recent past" (Northeast Iowa Oral History Project, 1975; copy in the St. Olaf Library).
"Nineteenth Century Social Change in Lesja, Norway," a paper submitted (96 p.) in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree "summa cum laude," history major in the College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, Spring, 1980. The study covers the period 1860-1919.
An autobiography of and letters to the wife of Einar Lund, an editor of Decorah-Posten, a newspaper for which Ms. Lund also worked as proofreader. Included are photos of notable events in Decorah, Iowa, such as the royal visit in 1939. The 116-page autobiography, "Minner fra mitt liv," is an edited transcription by her daughter, Eva Lund Haugen, based on tape recordings made in 1965 and 1966.
"Special commemorative section" of the Arizona Daily Star honoring his election to the Basketball Hall of Fame, Springfield, Massachusetts. Born September 22, 1934 on a farm outside Hatton, N.D., Olson grew up in Mayville and Grand Forks, N.D., and graduated from Augsburg College (Minneapolis) in 1956. He served as coach and teacher in Mahnomen and Two Harbors, Minn,; Boulder, CO.; Anaheim, CA. In 1974 he was named head basketball coach at the University of Iowa; in 1983 head basketball coach at the University of Arizona.
Papers of a Norwegian-born editor and realtor: correspondence, clippings, and a scrapbook dealing with such subjects as the cultural life among Norwegian Americans; Norwegian-American press; Bjornson in America; Scandinavian professorship at the University of Minnesota; Kristofer Janson; Knute Nelson; including a listing of contents of a number of issues of "Budstikken," 11 typescript pages. Jaeger was editor of "Budstikken" (1877-1885) and of "The North" (1889-1894), the first English newspaper for Scandinavian Americans.
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Correspondence and scrapbook.
Correspondents include Knud J. Fleischer, Nils P. Haugen, Ole Jorgens, Knud Langeland, Sigvart Sorensen, and Halle Steensland.
11 typescript pages listing contents of a number of issues of "Budstikken," transferred from C.G.O. Hansen clipping collection (on back of "Minneapolis Tidende" letterhead).
Jaeger letters of 1918 to Norwegian Society of Minneapolis resigning from the Society in protest to one of its positions; and to C.G.O.Hansen explaining this action.
Article, "Norwegian-American journalism; paper read before the Norwegian Society of Minneapolis, Jan. 25, 1909."
Clippings about Jaeger and family, 1918 - 1938.
"The American-Scandinavian Review," Aug. 1922: lead article, "Two American sculptors: Fjelde--father and son," pp. 467-472.
Information about an academy and junior college of the American Lutheran Church. The college courses were offered in affiliation with the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Bulletins, catalogs, reports, clippings, programs, brochures, and directories of a Decorah, Iowa, men's college, founded in 1861 and made co-educational in 1936.