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An album containing pictures from the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893, together with other pictures said to be from the early years in Humboldt Park, Chicago.
Includes a daily ticket to Exposition (Oct. 9, 1893). Includes photo of a Ferris wheel.
"Poems of Olaf Stageberg," compiled by his son Rolf Stageberg, with translations by Clarence Carlsen and Rosanna Gutterudjohnsrud; "Olaf Stageberg and Family"; "Remarks at the Funeral of...," by Julius Boraas (1 page, Sept. 4, 1946); and a photocopy of "Trøndere i Goodhue County, Minnesota," from "Trønderlagets aarbok 1924". Stageberg taught at Jewell Lutheran College, 1895-1905; Waldorf College, 1906-1908; and Red Wing Seminary, 1908-1932.
Family letters addressed to an immigrant who came to Winona County, Minnesota, in the early 1850s. The file contains a summary of each letter. Correspondents include: Ole N. Bergum, Ingebor Halvorsdatter, Arne Knudson (town of Pery)
"Ingvild's Diary," June 1-July 2, 1950, kept by an eleven-year old girl who was one of six Norwegian children chosen to attend the first Children's International Summer Village, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Descriptive information about a skiing program for the blind based on the work done at the Beitastølen Health Sports Center in Norway. Added. 1 sheet notice that Olav Pedersen, "father" of what is now called "Ski for Light," was inducted into the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame, Sept. 30, 2000 (sheet includes a number of photographs).
Copy of "Pilgrims in a Strange Land," as published in "Adventist Heritage," volume 11, no. 6, 1986; and "Oakland: The First Norwegian-American Seventh Day Adventist Church in America," Mauston, Wisconsin, 1985. The first Norwegian-American Seventh Day Adventist Church in the United States was organized in Oakland Township, Jefferson County, Wisconsin, in 1861 by four families who had emigrated from Vest Agder in the 1850s (Olsen, Johnson, Loe and Serns families). This church "became a center from which evangelistic work spread among Scandinavians both in the United States and in Europe."
Translations by Sigvald Støylen of fragments found in a notebook kept by an immigrant from Orkedal, Norway, to Dunn County, Wisconsin. 2 pages typescript. A brother, John Jensen Lium, came to the United States in 1870 and settled at Christine, N.D.
88-page unpublished manuscript, "Mae on Gull Island"; and a story for children, "I once Had a Wonderful Secret." by a Norwegian American living in Wheaton, Illinois. J. Rode Jacobsen, a brother-in-law, was a well-known Norwegian-American composer and teacher in Chicago. Also a photograph of a Christ's Church outing in Chicago from about 1900, which includes her father, aunt and uncle.
"Down and Out, Then up to the Heights, He Couldn't Run a Street Car, but Wins the Nobel Prize," by Sven Thalberg, published in "The Mentor," February, 1921, p. 33. An assortment of clippings concerning Hamsun's America sojourns are included, as are articles about Eugene Gay-Tifft, who translated several of Hamsun's novels. Added "Knut Hamsun I Minneapolis" by H. Askeland ("Sønner af Norger," Feb. 1921); "Min Hamsun" by Victor Nilsson ("Bonniers Litterära Magasin," Oct. 1933); "K.H. I Chicago" by Lars Frode Larsen (1984). Includes photograph with authentic signature