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Papers of the owner of the Landsverk Electrometer Company, Glendale, California. Landsverk was an enthusiastic promoter of the Kensington Runestone and other runic inscriptions, with emphasis on cryptographic messages to be found in them. He also was research director for the Leif Erikson Association in Los Angeles, and a leader in the campaign for a Congressional Proclamation of 9 October as Leif Erikson Day.
An earthy and realistic account by a western Dane County, Wisconsin, farmer regarding his life in a hospital during the Civil War. He served in the Co. C, 12th Wis. Vol. Inf. As Ole Olson. Knut O. Grimstveit and family emigrated from Nissedal, Telemark, in 1850, settling in the Perry parish near Mt. Horeb. Reminiscences titled "Ole Grimstvedt's Hospital Life from 1862 till April 2nd, 1866."
Born on the Smaadal farm, Baastad parish, Trogstad kommune, Ostfold, on Aug. 26, 1836. Emigrated with his family in 1870 to Litchfield, Minn., where his brother, Theodore H. Dahl (1845-1923) was pastor. After a few months moved to St. Paul and worked as a carpenter for six years. Then homesteaded in Pope county, Minn., worked as a carpenter and merchant. The account closes with his wife's death in 1915. The larger part of the autobiography concerns his life in Norway, including seven years in the National Guard cavalry.
Autobiography. Three letters (1914-1919) to his grandson Gerhard are also included. Translated and with an introd. by grandson Spener Lloyd Bull Dahl.
Transcript copy of a letter and translation of a letter from a Winchester, Wisconsin, resident to his brother in Telemark. A letter from the donor and a memorandum are included.
Certificates of bounty land grants and of land purchases in Dane County, Wisconsin, 1854 - 1855, made by Hans Hanson, and a citizenship statement issued to Ole Hanson in 1872.
A Norwegian warranty deed (March 1, 1729) transferring church land (Liknes parish, Kvinesdal, Vest Aader) to Ole Heljeson, together with a copy of same and a clipping of an article in "Minneapolis Tidende" (Dec. 27, 1934) by H. Chr. Hjortaas explaining the document.
Content: Ole Heljesøn Papers: Warranty Deed & Transcripts.
Ole Hendricks was an immigrant both representative and exceptional—a true artistic talent who nevertheless lived a familiar immigrant experience. By day, he was a farmer. But at night, his fiddle lit up dance halls, bringing together all manner of neighbors in rural Minnesota. Each tune in his repertoire of waltzes, reels, polkas, quadrilles, and more were copied neatly into his commonplace book.
Such tunebooks, popular during the nineteenth century, rarely survive and are often overlooked by folk scholars in favor of commercially produced recordings, published sheet music, or oral tradition. Based on extensive historical and genealogical research, Amy Shaw presents a grounded picture of a musician, his family, and his community in the Upper Midwest, revealing much about music and dance in the area. This notable contribution to regional music and folklore includes more than one hundred of Ole's dance tunes, transcribed into modern musical notation for the first time. Ole Hendricks and His Tunebook will be valuable to readers and scholars interested in ethnomusicology and the Norwegian American immigrant experience.
Written by Amy M. Shaw. Shaw is a musician, archivist, and the head of archives and special collections at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Published by University of Wisconsin Press.