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Copies of articles by and about a Minneapolis, Minnesota, physician and writer, whose wide-ranging interests included religion and politics. The articles were copied from "Forskaren," a Swedish language journal, and mounted into a scrapbook. Dr. Teigen wrote for newspapers and medical journals. In 1905-06 he was editor of "Vikingen." Other articles have been added as well.
Typescript of a speech delivered by a native of Slemmestad, Norway, at the annual convention of Landingslaget, Mayville, North Dakota, 9-10 July 1971. Also in the file is a covering letter from Mr. Sandaker to Clarence H. Tollefson.
Yale's First Faculty Nobelist, an article about a Norwegian-born professor of theoretical chemistry at Yale University who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1968. Onsager came to the United States in the 1928 after having been educated in Norway and Switzerland. He taught at Johns Hopkins University and at Brown University before coming to Yale in 1933. He receieved the Ph. D. degree at Yale in 1935. Also included is an obituary notice, 1976.
Papers of an emigrant from Tysvær, who left Norway in 1894. He came first to Iowa, but moved to Hackensack, Minnesota, in 1916. The papers consist of a registration certificate, 1877; a vaccination certificate, and a minister's testimonial,both dated 1894; together with two receipts from Drs. Mayo, Graham & Co., dated 1908; also copy of obituary, 1950
Summer League Boots, a 65-page account of a trip along the Norwegian coast from Bergen to Hammarfest on the ship "Vesteraalen," and the return to Oslo via ship and train. The account is enlivened by descriptive, historical and legendary details.
The papers consist of a "Sjøfartsbok," recording his terms as a merchant seaman, with notations for 1916-1918; a handwritten notebook entitled "Norske Stiler av Ansten Anstensen," with marks and corrections, perhaps from his study at St. Olaf College; and clippings by and about Anstensen, 1925-1942. Anstensen graduated from St. Olaf College in 1925, received a Ph. D. from Columbia University and studied in Germany, and founded the German Department at the University of Saskatchewan.
The papers were found in the attic of Old Ytterboe Hall, a men's dormitory at St. Olaf College, in March 1977.
Biographical information about a Norwegian-born artist, who came from Bergen to the United States in 1918. He established himself in Chicago and in Madison, Wisconsin, and became widely known as a fine portrait artist. Two of his portraits, those of President Lars W. Boe and President Clemens Granskou, belong to St. Olaf College. Charlotte Jacobson and Rolf Erickson collected information about him in 1976, and a report of Erickson's interview with Abrahamsen (4 October) is included. Catalog of an exhibit of paintings and drawings, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1943. Correspondence and clippings about Abrahamsen, 1926-1983.