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• Ola Bjorland songbook, 1895

  "Sanger" A compilation of 190 Norwegian folk songs, religious and secular, in Norwegian and English, compiled by the minister of the Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church in Chicago for use on informal occasions.
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  Cornelia Cleophas Bjorlee papers, 1901-2003

  Biography/History: 
  Cornelia C. Bjorlee was born in Kensett, Iowa, and in 1911 studied music in Vienna, Austria, under Otokar Sevcik until 1914. At the outbreak of World War I, Cornelia returned to the U.S. and continued her studies at the Juilliard School of Music from 1915 to 1916. Cornelia married Ignatius Bjorlee, who graduated from St. Olaf College in 1909. She helped her husband with his work at the Maryland School for the Deaf in Frederick, Maryland. The couple retired to their farm in Albert Lea, Minnesota. He passed away in 1968, and she moved to Northfield, Minnesota, in 1978.

  Scope and Content: 
  Correspondence, pamphlets, clippings, and photographs that document the life of Cornelia C. Bjorlee. 

• Dreng Bjornaraa clippings, 1919-1987

  Newspaper items and some correspondence collected by a Norwegian American who lived in Minneapolis and had a varied career as a journalist, educator, federal government officer, and public relations officer for U. S. Steel.
  
  The clippings cover his interests in Norwegian-American activities. He sat on a number of boards: Lutheran Brotherhood, Fairview Hospital, and St. Olaf College. Family clippings concerning Bjorgulv Bjornaraa (1878-1942, father of Dreng Bjornaraa); Thorwald Bjornaraa (1909-1985, Dreng's brother); Bud Bjornaraa (Dreng's nephew); Knut Helland (1880-1919); and Clarence C. Knudsen (1902-1987); Obituary of Dreng Bjornaraa; Correspondence of Bjorgulv Bjornaraa; Photograph of Dreng Bjornaraa at a NAHA banquet, 1919-1987; Correspondence of Dreng Bjornaraa, 1951-1981; Nordmanns Forbundet correspondence and clippings, 1951-1981; Norwegian American Sesquicentennial clippings, 1975; Bernhard Knudsen  correspondence and obituary, 1927-1945; Olav, King of Norway, clippings, 1975-1976; Vesterheim clippings, 1965-1976; and Norwegians in the U.S. clippings, 1951-1986.
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  Arne M. Bjorndal journal, 1940

  The journal of Arne Bjørndal, who was involved in resistance activities following the German invasion on April 9, 1940. The journal documents his experiences in Norway between April 9–20, 1940. It includes My Early Years: From School Days to War Time, which reflects on his early years in Norway, the invasion of Norway, becoming a “citizen arrestee,” and being sent to Ebreichsdorf sanitorium on the Austria/Hungary border. Transcription and translation of journal provided.
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  Magnus Bjorndal papers, 1849-1987

  Papers of a Norwegian-born American engineer, who came to the United States in 1922 and who founded and was president of Technical Laboratories in Weehawken, New Jersey. A leader in many Norwegian-American activities, he also did considerable research on the Norwegian discovery of America. He was president of NAHA, 1969-1971.
• Bjorn and Anna Bjornstad family history, 1997

  "Bjorn and Anna: The Story of a Norwegian Immigrant Couple in America" by A. M. Bjornstad.
  Formerly part of P539.
• Sølfest Langeland letter, 1877

  Copy of a letter from Amund Bjørnevik in Aalesund, Norway, to Langeland who emigrated from Sunnylven, Søndmøre, in 1866, and moved to Hvidby Island, Stanwood, Washington
• Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson papers, 1879-1940

  Correspondence, clippings, essays, papers, personal reminiscences, 1932 centenary observance, and commentary on his 1881 lecture tour in the Midwest. One letter is by Bjørnson to Thoralv Klaveness concerning the latter's book, "Det Norske Amerika" (1904).
  
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  • Letters, obit of Karoline Bjørnson.
  • Clippings. Program for "The Editor" Dec. 15, 1932 performance at the Metropolitan Opera House, Minneapolis includes commentary by Donald O'Connell. Newspaper clipping with photograph of Prof. Gisle Bothne, Prof. Martin B. Ruud, Dr. Lotus D. Coffman, Pres. of the University of Minnesota, Governor Floyd B. Olson, and B. O. Eggen, president of the Norwegian National League of Minneapolis. Program for the 100th anniversary of Bjornson's birth, Dec. 8,1932. Poem, "Hilsen" written by Knut Hamsum for the seventieth anniversary of the birth of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, translated by Martin R. Ruud and Joseph Warren Beach on the hundredth anniversary of his birth.
  • Copy of "Vis-Knut." Included are photocopies of articles regarding Bjørnson's visit to Chicago (1881).
  • Added 6/28/12, photo of Edvard Hoem (Norwegian author, poet, and playwright, who has written biographies of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) during a visit to St. Olaf College, 2001.
  • Added April 7, 2014: TRANSLATION, “AMERIKABREV” FEDRAHEIMEN, FEBRUARY 1881 (provided by John Norton). Norton wrote, "probably [written by] Arne Garborg´s younger brother Samuel...dealing with Bjornstjerne Bjørnson´s unsuccessful attempt to reach Decorah as part of the regional lecture tour arranged by Rasmus B. Andersen, but snowed out by what must have been a miserable winter storm. He got snowed-out, while his audience got snowed-in at Decorah!" May 4, 1881(?) Skandinaven newspaper image regarding Bjørnson's visit to Chicago (in Norwegian). Photocopy of Verdens Gang, Chicago, 14 April, 1881 Bjørnson's last lecture (In Norwegian).
  • Several English translations of Bjørnson's and others including "Arne's Song", "The Bridge Builder", "A Snail and I", "En Ungbirk Stander ved Fjorden", and "Over the Towering Mountains", newspaper clippings.
  • Clipping from 25 May 1939 issue of Gudbrandsdølen, "De Fem Store" by O. Thommessen, in Norwegian. Clipping from Nordisk Tidende 1 Aug. 1934 Stort og smaatt i America (Letter from Bjørnson's America Tour in 1880, in Norwegian).
  • Booklet "Vis-Knut by Bjornstjerne Bjroson, published 1882. Bjornstjerne Bjornson Jubieums-nummer published by Norden Tidsskrit for Det Norsk Amerika. May 1932. "Poet-Patriot an impetuous youth", newspaper clipping about Jacob Seeman, longtime friend of Bjornstjerne Bjornson. Bjornson was engaged to Seeman's sister and they remained friends. Published in the Madison Journal, October 21, 1905. Clipping "Björnon, Kristofer Janson og Thrond i Chicago" by M. Salmonsen, in Danish published 28 June 1919, unknown newspaper. Clipping "Bjørnson i Amerika" 18 Aug 1929 by Prof. Edvard Lehmann. Clipping Daughters av Norge form Bjornson Club in La Crosse, Published December 6, 1931, Decorah Posten, in Norwegian. Clipping Minneapolis Tidende July 28, 1932 Knud Wesalds Tale about Bjørnsterne Bjornson. Many clippings from various Norwegian language newspapers regard the centenary of Bjornson's birth. Decorah Posten clipping, "Bjornson in Racine" 13 February 1934 in Norwegian. Sonner of Norge newsletter, "Det Norge Bjørnson gav oss" in Norwegian with English translation. Clipping from Decorah Posten 22 Oct. 1940,
  • List of Poems of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1850-1869 by Clara Jacobson.
  • Clipping from Nordisk Tidende, "Civilized or Merely Clever" by H. Sundby-Hansen about Erling Bjornson, Bjornstjeren's brother, in multiple parts, in English, September 9, 1934. Program, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's Minde, Minneapolis Auditorium, June 12, 1910. Published to raise money for Norway in advance of the 100 year anniversary in 1914.
  • Photocopy, J. B. Wist, "Da Bjornson kom til La Crosse, Sumra 1919 in Norwegian Booklet, En Tale af Bjornsterne Bjornson om Maalsagen, 1900, Landsbladets, in Norwegian. Newspaper special section, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's liv i billeder, Aftenposten 3 December 1932.
  • Clipping, "A Day With Bjornstjerne Bjornson, the "Grand Old Man" of Norway" by W.B. Chamberlain, Managing Editor of The Journal, 1905. In English. Clipping of republished article in 1932. Clipping, Bjørnsons nye bog, Nationaltrykkeriet-Kristiania, undated, in Norwegian. Clipping, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson by Carl Nærup unknown date, in Norwegian. Booklet, Til dem, som Forkynner eller lærer det norske mål af Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Kristiania 1887. Clipping, "Festen for Bjørnson" 6 July 1886 Norden. Clipping, "Det nye System" 24 December 1879, Norden.
  • Photograph of Bjørnstjeren Bjørnson with signature, undated.
  • Microfilm received from Einar haugen:
    • (1.) 35 articles from Norwegian newspapers, 1880-1881, about Bjørnson Archive, Univ. of Oslo; filmed in Haugen, 1960.
    • (2.) Letters from Haaken Løken (1859-1923) to Bjørnson, 1899-1908; and some vocabulary slips, "bokmaal."
    • (Another film, letters of Rasmus B. Anderson to Bjørnson, 1872-1902, is in the R.B. Anderson Papers, P717.)

  
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• Valdimar Bjørnson papers, 1948-1987

  Three lectures delivered over WCAL, St. Olaf College radio station, in October of 1948; an obituary, a letter, and a postcard and photograph.
  
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  Contains mimeographed reproductions of 1948 lectures titled "The Viking Voyagers," "Modern Migrations Begin," and "Evaluating the Contribution"; clipping/obituary, "K. Valdimar Bjornson, Minnesota's Icelandic Treasurer," 1 April 1987 Vinland; letter from Bjornson to Dean Thompson; election postcard and signed photograph of Valdimar Björnson.
  
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• Emma Blagen collection, 1913-1960

  Blagen, Emma L. (1895-1983) Collection. Blagen lived most of her life in Decorah, Iowa. She was employed by John Longstreet Photograph Studio and the Decorah Meritol Co. The collection includes diaries kept between 1934 and 1978, family letters and postcards, 1913-1960s, and 150-plus family photograph negatives (scanned & printed), ca. early 1900s.