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Mons Anderson clippings, 1974-1982
Data covering an immigrant from Valdres, who came to Milwaukee in 1848 and moved to La Crosse in 1851. He established his own business in 1856 and became known as "The Merchant Prince of La Crosse." The clippings consist of biographical notes and information about the house he purchased in 1865. There is also a description of a coin which he had had minted with his lion trademark on the obverse side.
Contains newspaper clippings on Mons Anderson and his home in La Crosse. -
Hjemkomst history, 1980-2007
A Dream is a Dream 1980 (revised edition), the story of a replica of a Viking ship, as told by the builder, Robert Asp. Building of the ship took place in an old potato warehouse in Hawley, Minnesota. Robert Asp died before the work was finished, but his family readied the ship and sailed the Hjemkomst across the Atlantic, arriving in Bergen, Norway, July 19th, 1982. A Minneapolis Tribune Picture Section (August 29th, 1982) and clippings tell the final story. The ship is now housed at the Red River Valley Heritage Society's Museum at Moorhead, Minnesota. (Heritage-Hjemkomst Interpretive Center) Beginning 1997 a replica of the Hopperstad stave church in Vik is being built in connection with the center. Clippings about this church are included, as well as those about the annual Scandinavian Hjemkomst festival held in Fargo-Moorhead. The Clay County Historical Society Archives are also in the center.
Includes programs, invitations, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and advertisements for the Hjemkomst festivals. -
Charles A. Johnson legal document, 1926
Examination of Title for a piece of property, described as Lots 7 and 8 in M.N. Kimball's Subdivision in Section 26-40-13, Cook County, Illinois, prepared by Chicago Title and Trust Company. The record begins in 1841, the document is dated June 22nd, 1926. -
Erik Jensen Lundlokken family papers, 1727-1794
Copies of a group of 18th century documents from Gudbrandsdal which are in the possession of Mr. and Mrs. T. Linn of Chicago.
A summary of the papers was provided by Rolf Erickson. The papers include farm sale in Tretten annex, a petition to the King of Denmark and Norway, sale of farm (newspaper story), and confirmation of farm sale in 1738 and 1794. -
Oliver Olsen diary, 1870-1872
Copy of a journal kept by a 19-year-old Norwegian resident of Rock Island, Illinois. Because there was little work to be had, Olsen spent his time reading law and studying German. Occasionally he worked as a carpenter, but finally he became a clerk in a law office. An 1876 Rock Island Directory lists him as a lawyer in the city. In 1890 he described himself as "...an ordinary country lawyer...a bachelor of forty, without family, fame or fortune."
The papers also include genealogical information (p. 74 - 76) and the constitution for a literary society of which he was a member. -
Royal Norwegian Navy War Veterans Association newsletters, 1972-1983
The Sea Breeze, a publication of the U.S. Branch of the S.S.H. Veteranforening, a social organization of citizens of Canada and the United States who were active in the Norwegian Navy during World War II. -
Elizabeth Fedde papers, 1883-2000
40 typescript pages. "Memoirs of Sister Elizabeth," translated by P. J. Hertsgaard, is an account of a Norwegian-born deaconess who began her career at the Deaconess Home in Christiania (now Oslo) in 1873, and who came to New York in 1883, where she organized a deaconess program in connection with the Seaman's Mission Church in Brooklyn. Eventually she established deaconess hospitals in Brooklyn and in Minneapolis. This account covers briefly her career in Norway and only her two first years in the United States.
The file includes a photocopy of a 13-page typescript titled "The Long Journey of Deaconess Nursing in America" by an unknown author, and two articles in Norwegian, 61 and 23 pages, which discuss Deaconess work and its history in Norway. An account of Fedde's career by Beulah Folkedahl is in "Studies and Records," volume 20, 1959. Includes: Diary, 1958-1959 Original translation with B. Folkedahl's introduction as published in "Studies" volume 20 "Memories of Sister Elizabeth" by P.J. Hertsgaard translation, 1933 Clippings, correspondence, and deaconess history, 1883-2000 Sister Elizabeth Fedde's notes, undated Translation of autobiography by B. Folkedahl, 1958-1959 -
Autographs collection, undated
A proclamation signed by Christian IX (1863-1906), and separate signatures of Ole Bull and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. -
Paul Benson history, 1995
"The Empire of Song : A Panoramic History of America's Choral Kingdom," a survey of the development of choral music at the Scandinavian-American colleges in the United States, by a graduate of St. Olaf College, 1967. -
Harry T. Cleven translation, 1995
The Fifteenth Wisconsin, an English version of Kristofer Janson's Femtende Wisconsin, a novel published in Copenhagen in 1887. Cleven served as minister of the American Lutheran Church in Oslo for many years.