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Norway-America letters, 1874-1993
Original, typescript, and photocopies of letters written by Norwegians to relatives and friends in America. -
S. Gesley family account book, 1862-1897
S. Gesley family of Beloit, Wisconsin account book, 1862-1897. Apparently he was a farmer and business owner. Mrs. Gresley kept the records from 1875-1897. They owned land in Rock as well. No other information is known about them, but mentions (George and Sabel).
Includes entries such as: money spent in saloon; paying bounty; hired girl; monthly grocery bill; sale of hogs, corn, cattle, wood, rye, wheat, horses, hides, calves, and butter and eggs. -
Otterness autograph books, 1885-1893
Otterness autograph books (1885-1893) belonging to Lisa and Severina (Lizzie and Sarah), Leon Township, Goodhue County, Minnesota.]
Autograph Book 1:- Lisa Otterness includes notes from the following: Anna Ostegaard, St. Ansgar Sem and Inst., '93 ( home: Grand Meadow, MN);
- Rachel Nubson (Meroa, Iowa);
- Emma Wrolstad (Volstead?);
- Hannah Jorstad (Kenyon, MN);
- Carrie Nelson;
- Tilda Jorstad;
- Lina Wrolstad (Volstead?, Kenyon, MN)
- Ella Dalbotten (1885);
- John Brakke (1889);
- Ellen Lees (1884);
- Arne Monson (1886);
- Carrie J. Olson (1884);
- J.M. Gjellum (1891);
- Arne Eide;
- Berty Flom;
- Ella Bygd;
- Gurina Houge (1886);
- Wilhelm Olson (1884);
- Lars J. Gemse;
- Mary Bestul (1885);
- Oliver Olson (1889);
- George Olson;
- Christine Olson;
- Belle Anderson;
- Randi Ramstad;
- Nels J. Haugen;
- Oliver Brakke;
- Arnie I. Underdahl,
- Gertie Lee;
- Gertie Flom;
- Nettie Holum;
- Mary Anderson (Westedo, MN);
- Andrew Ellingsen (Cannn Falls, MN);
- William Olson
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Destination America David Grubin Productions, 2005
Destination America David Grubin Productions (2005). Four-part PBS television mini-series. NAHA provided some of the images.
Part I: "The Golden Door"
Part II: "The Art of Departure"
Part III: "The Earth is the Lord's"
Part IV: "Breaking Free: A Women's Journey" -
American-Scandinavian Forum of Boston papers, 1928-1988
Founded in 1928 by a group of Swedish graduate students at Harvard (Phillips Brooks House). Purpose of the society "To strengthen the friendship and understanding between the United States and the Scandinavian countries and to promote the intellectual interests and good fellowship of its members." Monthly literary seminars offered through the Scandinavian Forum Seminar (reading group). Einar Haugen, member. During the 1970s, the organization was a member of the American-Scandinavian Foundation. -
Progressive Literary Club papers, 1921-1991
Established in 1921 and composed of Norwegian born women and American women of Norwegian descent, met monthly to study Norwegian culture, music and to continue the Norse language. Mrs. Helen Egilsrud, first president. A membership of 75 was maintained.
Includes program booklets and by-laws (1949-1989); clipping scrapbook; minutes (1968-1983); clippings; paper on the Progressive Literary Club, "Den Progressive Literare Klub" by Barbara Davidson (1991) -
Gleason's Pictorial, 1852 September 11
Gleason's Pictorial (September 11, 1852) which includes an article about the collision on Lake Erie between the steamer "Atlantic" and the propeller-driver "Ogdensburg." The donor, Bruce Weaver, discovered that his great-great-great grandmother, Marit Rødvang, and her family, miraculously survived the shipwreck. An article about the 1852 collision was written by Abraham Jacobson, and was featured in the 1902 issue of the Decorah Postin about Marit Rødvang and the family's harrowing journey to America. Approximately 500 people were on board the Atlantic and only 200 were rescued. Also, "Forgotten Shipwreck, Recovered Memory," by Bruce Weaver (Budstikken, May, 2006). Added Aug. 18, 2015: "Awful Calamity! The Steamship Atlantic Disaster of 1852," by Justin Wargo (Wisconsin Magazine of History, Winter 2014-2015). -
Scandinavian Academic Club, University of Minnesota, 1946-1970
First organized as the Norwegian Academic Club at the University of Minnesota, the name was changed in 1957 to include other Scandinavian students. The purpose of the club was to encourage mutual assistance and fellowship among the students in the group. -
Leola Nelson Bergmann periodicals, 1944-1969
"Scandinavian Settlement in Iowa" and "The Norwegians in Iowa" in "Palimpsest," March, 1956 and August, 1959. "The Negro in Iowa" in "Studies in Iowa History." Bergmann is the author of "Americans from Norway" (1950) and "Music Master of the Middle West" (F. Melius Christiansen), 1944. -
Olaus Jeldness biography, 1978
"Olaus Jeldness and the Birth of Skiing in the Canadian West, " by Rolf Lund, an article that appeared in "Nordic World," March, 1978. (photocopy)