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Anna Gjellstad records, 1910-1996
Gjellstad was born Vestre Toten, emigrated to relatives near Granville; Verendrye, N.D. until 1939 when they moved to Velva (McHenry Co.). For related information, see in the library collection: Vogt, Markell Gjellstad. Gjellstad. 116 p. 1983. CS71.G48 1983. Includes "History of Conrad Gjellstad" by Verna Schock and Norman Gjellstad, pp. 35-39.
A diary of her trip Oct. 12-26, 1910 from Oslo to Granville, N.D. (photocopy); translation by her daughter Verna Schock, with a biography of her mother. 18 p. Letter from a sister, 1929 (photocopy and translation); several documents. -
Anna Haga interview, 1996 May 24
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. Unprocessed This item is currently restricted. -
Anna Hong papers, 1978
Achievements of Anna Hong (Rutt), a one-page summary of her work as artist, teacher, administrator, lecturer and writer, other biographical material, and two letters. She was at one time Head of the Art Department at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Collections include information about her donations to Vesterheim Museum and correspondence about her later years.
Her book, "Our Norwegian Ancestors and Their Siblings and Descendants," 1968, by Anna Hong Rutt, is in the St. Olaf Library. -
Anna Minde letter, 1884 June 28
A letter dated June 28, 1884, Jackson, to Peter Peterson Havreberg. Havreberg (Feb. 19, 1833 Luster- Oct. 25, 1894) emigrated 1853 and was a pastor a Jackson, Minn. And missionary in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa, 1883-1894. Secretary Elling Synod, 1883-1887; vice-pres., 1887-1890. -
Anna Sandvik Edwards memoirs, 1923
Memoir, "Nykommer, 1923," of woman born near Kongsvinger to teacher Simon Sandvik Granli and Emilie Granvaether. An account of her journey from Oslo to Dawson, Minn., where she was met by cousins. She tells of her first job as a cook in the Dawson, hospital, working with hear nurse Trggeseth and Dr. Stemsrud; as a housekeeper for a farmer; and as a telephone operator in St. Cloud. -
Anna Sekse Kindem papers, 1957-1976
Clippings of letters and articles by Mrs. Kindem and a few articles by other authors which appeared mostly in the Norwegian newspapers: "Hardanger," "Telemark Tidend," and "Odda Kyrkjeblad." Written from Northfield, Minnesota, the letters include topics such as prices, employment, politics, crops, Fourth of July, 1939 visit of Norwegian royalty, World War II, memories from Norway, St. Olaf College, Norwegian-American festivities, travel in the United States and Norway. Mrs. Kindem immigrated in 1923.
Includes:- Clippings, "Hardanger" (12 August 1938-11 December 1957)
- Translations of Anna Sekse Kindem's letters to Norwegian newspapers, by Charlotte Jacobson (1978)
- Clippings, articles, and letters (1946-1959)
- Clippings, "Hardanger" (5 March 1958-14 March 1976)
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Anna Skaaden Breden family history, 1995
Compiled by Elouise Herigstad Hazelett, 1995. Includes information on the Skaaden and Haugenstuens. -
Anna T. Spafford papers, 1894-1930
Copies of letters written in 1894 to Abraham Jacobson, Decorah, Iowa, and copies of newspaper clippings (1897-1950) telling the story of the American colony in Jerusalem, which had been founded by Horatio Gates Spafford and his wife, who was born in Stavanger. Anna Larsen Spafford had come to Chicago with her family in the 1850s, where she continued to live until her departure for Jerusalem in 1881. Other members of the family had moved to Goodhue County, Minnesota, among them Edward Larsen (1838-1911), a half-brother. She is portrayed as Mrs. Gordon in Selma Lagerlöf's novel Jerusalem. Sven Hedin gives a sympathetic picture of the group in Till Jerusalem. Her daughter Bertha Spafford Vester published Our Jerusalem, an American Family in the Holy City. -
Anna Thykesen papers, 1910-1951
Papers of a teacher of Norwegian at St. Olaf College: a Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson letter and a scrapbook of clippings dealing largely with Bjørnson and the centenary of his birth, a scrapbook on O. E. Rølvaag and other writers (1931-1956), and a scrapbook of clippings on the reorganization problem in the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America in the early 1930s. -
Annanias Jonasen Sand and Marit Andersdatter family history, 2013
Grains of Sand: Annanias Jonasen Sand, Marit Andersdatter and their Children (2013). Family settled in the Cloquet, Minn.