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The Norwegian Club: A History of the Club, 1904-1944, by A. N Rygg, 1944, 93 pages. (on the cover: Det Norske Selskab, New York); "The Norwegian Club, Inc. 1904-1964," edited by Erik J. Friis, 1964, 104 pages; a monthly bulletin "Norsony News," April, 1932; a Roy Jorgensen letter that gives historical information about the club; and a collection of clippings, two of which mention an older organization, "Den norske Forening."
RESTRICTED: Documents of a Norwegian emigrant from Hamar, Norway, to Chicago in 1882. In 1901 Lunde established the American Industrial Company for the manufacture of piano hardware. Because of his refusal to make war materials during World War I, he lost his factory. A son, Erling Lunde, was court-martialed in 1918 for being a conscientious objector. A pamphlet covering his defense is among the papers, as is a letter from Senator Robert La Follette, 1919, and some anti-war statements from the Congressional Record, Sept.-Oct. 1939.
Includes broadside poem, "Why Boast?" (July 19, 1936)
Translation of a journal and memoirs of an emigrant from Levold, Aal, Hallingdal, who came to Minnesota in 1866. The diary (8 p. typescript) covers the year 1874-1875 at Luther College. The memoirs (7 p. typescript) were written in 1880. Geraldine Tollefson Lillegard enlarges on these documents with her 158-page "Lillegard, His Diaries and Lineage." For additional biographical information, see O. M. Norlie's "School Calendar."
Clippings, a circular, and a letter from the Norwegian-born author of "The Man with the White Horse" (1979). Leistad was a trainer of wild horses and a performer of vaudeville acts.
Poems by O. S. Sneve, Fredrik Lhen and by Ben Blessum; letters (H.H. Aaker, F.L. Trsdal, B.B. Haugan) and clippings about a "Prohibition Park" near Twin Valley Minnesota (later called Heiberg Park), which had been established by Heiberg, a flour mill operator and an ardent Prohibitionist; and "The Slettebak Saga." A daughter in the Slettebak family, Augusta Ann, married J. F. Heiberg.
Photos and slides of paintings and a biography of an emigrant from Fana near Bergen, who came to Milwaukee in 1910, and moved to Chicago in 1924. He became noted for his "Norwegian house" in Chicago which he had decorated in Norwegian style.
A letter to an employee by a Norwegian-American businessman while on a world cruise. Enger founded the Enger and Olson Furniture Company in Duluth and donated land for the Enger golf course and the Enger Tower. A park was also named in his honor.