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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." Celeste Holm was an American stage, film and television actress. Holm won an Academy Award for her performance in Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement, and was nominated for her roles in Come to the Stable and All About Eve
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"Memories of a Prairie Girlhood" in the 1870s and 1880s. See obituary in Rowberg File of Mary's father Andrew E. Paulson (born Christiania 1840, emigrated 1868 to Fillmore co., Minn., homesteaded near Canby, Yellow Medicine co., Minn. In 1878). Vivid pictures of the eldest daughter's life in a family of nine children, of the trip by ox-team to Canby, life in dugout homes, prairie fires, blizzards, school and social life. In 1922 Mrs. King was living in Tigerton, Wisconsin. "Compiled by Ethel M. King in loving memory of her mother. No effort was made to edit or change the original transcript."
Ole-Iver and Johanne Berg: Pioneers, a translation of Mrs. Grevstad's account of her parents who emigrated from Norway in 1861, first to Wisconsin, then to Fillmore County, Minnesota, and finally to the Red River Valley. The author presents a vivid picture of the journey to the Red River Valley and of the pioneer community (Lake Park) where her parents settled. Translated by Agnes Grevstad Lee.
"A Brief History of the P. A. Rasmussen Family" includes material on their Norwegian background; activities of parishes in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and Missouri; life in the Lisbon (Illinois) parsonage.
Information about a Norwegian-American photographer, born in Sør-Fron in1889, who studied photography in Oslo and emigrated in 1907, first to Yellow Medicine co., Minn., where he worked as a farm laborer and established a small studio. He had a studio in Cottonwood, Minn. For several years, then moved to Lanesboro, Minn., where he operated a studio from 1922-1946. He worked for most high schools in the area and for Luther College. He made several trips to Norway and sold hand-tinted photos for fellow immigrants (a brochure about these is included). Donald V. Ward later purchased his business, including equipment, thousands of glass plate negatives, and 600 photo postcards.; Cynthis Elyce Rubin published an article, " Early Norwegian-American postcard photographer" (Postcard Collector, Feb. 2000), a copy of which is included. Rubin also contributed most of the photocopies of newspaper articles, advertisements, and some of Bue's photographs. Rubin published another article, "Image and memory: photographers Mathias O. Bue and Walter T. Oxley" in Minnesota History, Fall 2004, pp. 110-119 (copy included here).