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Juul Dieserud papers, 1893-1923
Papers and articles by and about a Norwegian-born librarian who served as Chief of the Division of Cataloging in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Includes newspaper clippings and a 12-page Dieserud letter to C. G. O. Hansen, July 3, 1926. For other articles by Dieserud see Symra, volume 1 (1905). -
Carl Ben Eielson clippings, 1926-1988
Data about a Norwegian-American born in Hatton, North Dakota, who rose to fame as aviator and Arctic explorer. In 1924 he piloted the first mail plane in Alaska in 1928 he served as pilot for the Hubert Wilkins Arctic Expedition from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Spitsbergen (now Svalbard), a distance of 2,200 miles, and also for the Wilkins Antarctic expedition. Both Eielson and Wilkins died in 1929 on a mercy mission in the Bering Straits, trying to rescue an icebound ship. This mission is the subject of Robert J. Gleason's book, Icebound in the Siberian Arctic. A mountain in Alaska and the Air Force Base at Fairbanks are named after Eielson. His boyhood home is a museum.
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Dorothy G. Page, "Polar Pilot: The Carl Ben Eielson Story" (1992) and "'Ben': The Life Story of Col. Carl Ben Eielson" (1930). -
Knute I. Finney (Fenne) papers, 1880
A clipping and testimonials from noted violinists concerning a Norwegian violinist and teacher. Finney emigrated from Voss, Norway, in 1896 and studied at the American Conservatory of Music and at the Chicago Musical College before he established his own studios in Chicago. He invented and patented a "Finger Guide System" designed to educate students in playing the violin. -
Christian Wallentin Finwall biography, 1987
A biographical sketch and family history written by Sofie Reid about Finwall, a Baptist minister, who came to Chicago from Bergen in 1883. He was graduated from the Baptist Seminary in Morgan Park in 1887. After serving various parishes in the Midwest and in Seattle, he returned to Chicago and built the Logan Square Baptist Church, where he was the first minister. His final years were spent in California. -
Christian Jorgensen papers, 1919-1986
Miscellaneous items concerning a Norwegian emigrant from Christiania who arrived in California at the age of ten, the son of a sea captain. He began to study painting at the School of Design in San Francisco when he was fourteen, He became a distinguished landscape artist, working chiefly with California scenes: the Yosemite Valley, the California Missions, and Old San Francisco. His widow donated 250 of his painting to the National Park Service at Yosemite, his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Virgil Jorgensen, donated a large collection to the Sonoma Mission in 1950.
The file contains "Biography and Works" from California Art Research, family photographs, a valuation list with slides of some works by Dr. Joseph Baird, a brochure, "California Artist", and a Norwegian American Museum newsletter, September, 1989, with an article on a Jorgensen exhibit. Katherine Mather Littell, Twain Harte, California, has done much to bring Jorgensen out of obscurity. -
David T. Nelson clippings, 1969
Tributes to the memory of a professor at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa. After receiving a B.A. degree at Luther College, he studied as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University in England. He wrote a history of Luther College for its 100th anniversary in 1961. He translated and edited Elizabeth Koren's Diary, published by NAHA in 1955. -
Norwegian Lady Statue papers, 1962-1977
Clippings and articles about a statue, erected on the ocean front at Virginia Beach, Virginia, in 1962. The statue is identical to one standing in Moss, Norway, by Ørnulf Bast, commemorating the shipwreck of the bark Dictator off the coast of Virginia Beach in 1891. At the unveiling of the statue in Moss, the city of Virginia pledged to place a wreath at the statue in Virginia Beach every year in March. Included is a copy of The Norwegian Lady and the Wreck of the Dictator, by William O. Foss, 1977, 100 pages. -
Brynjulf Strandenaes clippings, 1921-1987
Reviews of the work of a Norwegian portrait and landscape artist who had a studio in New York in the 1920s. His portraits of Caruso, Amelia Earhart, and others attracted world attention. His portrait of Haakon VII was donated to the Norwegian legation in Washington, D.C -
Ivar Viehe-Naess autobiography, circa 1912
The story of an emigrant from Nord Osen in Osterdalen, who came to Chicago in 1891, and became a successful architect there. He had studied in Copenhagen, 1890-1891, and contined for three years at the Chicago School of Architecture. He started his own firm in 1912, working mainly with banks, office buildings, churches, and hospitals. He also designed the plans for a new church built on the site of his farm home in Osen, Norway. -
Rolf H. Erickson papers, 1790-1992
Articles, correspondence and other papers concerning the Circulation Services Librarian at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. A graduate of St. Olaf College and of the University of Wisconsin, Erickson has been involved the major Scandinavian activities in the Chicago area. He served as chairman of the Chicago History Committee, was a vice-president of NAHA, was a member of the board of the Swedish Historical Society and the Vesterheim Museum.
In connection with the Norwegian-American Commission of the Sesquicentennial, 1975, he served as co-chairman of the photographic exhibit entitled "With Our Hands and Minds," in Chicago. The exhibit gave rise to the publication of Our Norwegian Immigrants, by Dreyer Forlag, Oslo, 1978. Among Erickson's many interests were Norwegian-American artists and composers, including the lesser known ones. One study, "Norwegian-American Artists' Exhibitions Described in Checklists and Catalogs," appeared in Norwegian-American Studies, volume 31, 1986. A 17-page paper titled "Norwegian-American Composers" is dated July 31, 1989.
His collection includes papers with titles as follows: "The Norwegian Lutheran Church at Jambo Creek in Gibson Township," Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, "A Walking Tour of the Lessor Cemetery, Shawano County, Wisconsin", "Bay, Gjelsness, Hansen, Nyholm, Solberg and Strom: The Scandinavian as Librarian", a biography of Theodore Wesley Kock for the American Library Directory, "A Catalog of Art at Norway Center." He pursued family history: "Family Papers: Icons or Source Materials?" and "Mother, Karen Ramseth" (who was his great-grandmother). Some portions of the Erikson papers remain to be processed. He died of cancer at the peak of his career at age 52. A published Erickson family history is in our books collection.