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Publications, photographs, catalogues, reports, and histories (one by J. M. Wickman, 1923) of a Lutheran school founded in 1905 by Norwegian Americans and merged in 1929 with Pacific Lutheran College, Parkland, Washington. See also J. Jorgen Thompson Papers, P 595, boxes 2, 5, 6. Thompson was president 1917-1920.
Catalogues, brochures, bulletins, journals, reports, and photographs of a Lutheran academy founded in 1903 (a junior college in 1920), located in Forest City, Iowa.
Articles, correspondence, catalogues, record books, reports, photographs, programs, and a scrapbook concerning a Lutheran secondary school at Willmar, Minnesota (1883-1919).
Printed and typescript histories, constitutions, programs, yearbooks, and records of some 400 Norwegian-American churches, filed alphabetically by state and city (or county).
Articles, correspondence, clippings, pictures, programs, dealing with the centennial celebration of the first permanent Norwegian settlement in the United States in the Fox River Valley, La Salle County, Illinois. Among the papers are the addresses by Marshall Solberg and Arthur Andersen and an article, "The Fox River Norwegian Settlement," by Carlton C. Qualey. B. O. Berge, Orlando Ingvoldstad, Joseph M. Johnson, John J. Sonsteby, J. Jorgen Thompson are the chief correspondents.
Papers of a Faribault, Minnesota, physician: poems, correspondence, and articles dealing largely with his invention of, and the patent on, his extract of parathyroid gland, the royalties from which he donated to the Smithsonian Institution. Hanson was the son of Martin G. Hanson and grandson of Osten Hanson, past presidents of the Hauge Synod. Hanson held the rank of major in the Sanitary Commission during World War I.
Correspondence, pamphlets, programs, clippings, minutes, financial reports, and scrapbooks concerned with promoting Leif Erikson as the discoverer of America. Among the papers are those of the Minnesota Leif Erikson Monument Association, incorporated 1931 and dissolved in 1952, after erecting a Bronze statue at the state capitol grounds in St. Paul (October 9, 1949). The official statement by the President of the United States designating October 9 as Leif Erikson Day in recognition of the fact that Leif Erikson discovered the American continent. Proclamations for Ethnic American Day, 1986, and for National Immigrants Day, 1987, are included. Copy of a plan to create a monument to Leif Erikson: "A Proposal to the Norwegian People and Their Fellow Citizens of Chicago" by Arnold A. Tweten & Associates, Public Relations.
Includes Leif Erikson Day 2022 proclamation by President Biden.
Bulletins, catalogs, reports, clippings, programs, brochures, and directories of a Decorah, Iowa, men's college, founded in 1861 and made co-educational in 1936.
Minutes, reports, correspondence, and clippings of the Norwegian-Danish Press Association of America, organized in 1895. The collection deals with such subjects as immigration, influence of the press on the preservation of the Norwegian heritage and Americanization of immigrants, history of the Association, and its annual meetings. The name of the society was changed to the Norwegian and Danish Press Association in 1938.
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Correspondence
Reports
"Excursion Through Western Canada. Going Westward over Canadian National Railways. Leaving Winnipeg, July 11, 1928. Returning Eastward over Canadian Pacific Railway. Reaching Winnipeg, July 23, 1928. A Running story of the scenes and places visited en route." (1928, 51 p.
Clippings
Includes a reprint from the "The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 3, July, 1943 titled "Research Suggestions. Scandinavian-Language Newspapers," by Sverre Arestad. (p. 305-308)