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Ole Nilsen papers, 1871-1933
Scrapbook, poems, speeches and correspondence of a Lutheran clergy man who had emigrated from Aal, Hallingdal, in 1871. Also includes copies of a family tree, letters to Norway, 1872 - 1878 (with transcriptions and translations) and other correspondence. Also added are copies of three letters of Gro Svendsen, a sister. -
Olaf B. Stephens (Hustvedt) papers, circa 1890-1940
Description Papers of a farmer, district school teacher, and book store proprietor, consisting of reminiscences about pioneer life mostly in eastern Dane County, Wisconsin, southeastern Dakota, and Luther College. The anecdotes concern neighbors and relatives, wild life, and farm buildings, machinery, and operations. There are references to R.B. Anderson, Kristofer Jansen, Laur. Larsen, and Halvor Kostveit, the reputed killer of Joseph Smith. Stephens was born in Koshkonong, attended Luther College in 1862 - 1865 and 1864 - 1865, and lived in Dakota, Bemidji and Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Rice Lake, Ladysmith, and Deerfield, Wisconsin. Includes: Scrapbook, 1934-1940 Scrapbook, 1907-1939 Articles, autobiography, Luther College, Joseph Smith anecdote, 1890s-1940 Articles, pioneer anecdotes from Wisconsin, Dakota, Minnesota, 1911 April 15-1938 See also 'Telesoga,' March 1915, 3 - 13 and June 1918, 3 - 11. -
Asbjørn Ousdal papers, 1935-1951
Papers of a Norwegian-born osteopathic physician and surgeon of Santa Barbara, California. The clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, and pictures, including "Vinland Saga" (1937) by Ousdal, deal with the founding of Norroenn Federation of America and its promotion of Leif Erikson Day. They deal also with Ousdal's fossil museum, including his collection of fossil whales rated as matchless by the Smithsonian Institute. Ousdal is the author also of 'Our Revolting Society' (1945) and of several monographs on paleontological subjects. He made translations of Sanskrit and Old Norse into English and invented the Solar-Ray. -
Letter book, 1834-1888
Transcriptions of Norway letters dealing largely with spiritual matters. Names which appear are Elling Eielsen, Jens Johnsen, Niels C. Haugene, Ole Olsen Oterholt, and Inger L. Flood. Cover says: "Coppie af Breve, 1843 den 28 Juni" -
Henry B. Hamre record books, 1912-1930
Account books and undated prescription books of a Northfield, Minnesota pharmacist. Includes: Miscellaneous ledgers 4 Sales Records: 1912-1930 3 Prescription Books, undated Excerpt from the History of Rice & Steele Counties (1910): "Henry B. Hamre, for many years identified with the drug business of Northfield, was born in Goodhue County, Minnesota, Oct. 15, 1857, son of John and Emily (Norland) Hamre, natives of Norway...Henry B. received his education in the public schools, and in 1881 he came to Northfield and became a clerk in the drug store of Blackman and Kelly, remaining with them in the capacity of clerk until 1902, when he purchased an interest, and in May, 1909, he bought the remaining interest, thus becoming sole owner of the store...Mr. Hamre was married Oct. 25, 1893, to Bertha M. Gilbertson, a native of Norway..." -
Lisbon General Store (Lisbon, Illinois) account books, 1854-1882
Business records of the general retail mercantile store, including prices of produce and items of merchandise. P.A. Rasmussen and Erik Holland were among the patrons. Records for the period after 1856 are incomplete. -
Torgeir (Torger/Tarjei) G. Mandt papers, 1865
A poster and a clipping from The Stoughton Hub, founded in 1880 by Mandt, a Norwegian-born industrialist and inventor, concerning his Wagon Works, which started in 1865. There are also photographs and clippings from Decorah Posten(1889-1924), and a tube in the folio cabinet. -
Cass County School Dist. 45 (North Dakota) records, 1885-1892
Records of pupil attendance, course of study, text books, property, and visitors. -
Quakers in Norway and America records, 1917-2012
Includes the following articles: Cox, John. Norwegian Quakers in western New York (Friend's Intelligencer, Oct. 17-24, 1925), Cadbury, Henry J. The Norwegian Quakers of 1825 (Harvard Theological Review, Oct. 1925), Cadbury: Christopher Meidel and the first Norwegian contacts with Quakerism (Harvard Theological Review, Jan. 1941), Cadbury: De første Kvaekere i Stavanger (Decorah Posten, May 21-June 11, 1926, photocopy), Cadbury: De første norske Kvaekere i Amerika (Decorah Posten, Nov. 20, 1925), "De norske Kvaekere i Marshall Co., Iowa" (Decorah Posten, Nov. 7, 1924), "Kvekerne og Stavanger" (Stavanger Aftenblad, Aug. 29, 1975), photocopy of pages 95-125, 144-155 ("Norwegian Friends, History of early settlers, Stavanger School, The birth of a Meeting, 1885, the Anna Olsen story, the Tjossem family") from L. Frank Bedell's Quaker Heritage...a story of Iowa Conservative yearly meeting (1966), Stavanger Friends: yesterday and today, Marshalltown, 1985, 1 v., photocopy of H.F. Swansen's "the Norwegian Quakers of Marshalltown County, Iowa" (Norwegian-American Studies and Records, v.10, 1938, ppp.127-134), photocopy of pp. 175-181 of Lous Thomas Jones, The Quakers of Iowa, State Historical Society of Iowa, 1914: "The Norwegian Friends in Iowa.", leaflet on home built by Iver and Gurine Olson in 1887, clippings of articles published in Dagen, July 23, 1994, "-ein viktig lekk i Røldal si lokal-soge," by Lars-Toralf Storstrand, "Røldalsgrenda som flytta til Amerika," by Finn Jarle Saele, programs (1995-96) from Stavanger Friends Church, "A history of Stavanger Friends Meeting," by Helen Stangeland (3 p. typescript), photocopies of articles from three Norwegian newspapers, 1994, about monument to Quakers who emigrated from Røldal, sheet of information about Jens Hanson Gaardsrud (1789-1896) who emigrated 1849 from Jevnaker to southwestern Wisconsin, used surname Jackson in the U.S., added June 26, 2012: Henderson, Rebecca J. Ingrid’s Tales A Norwegian-American Quaker Farming story (2012). Added to Collection P0709, Quakers, Norway and America. A memoir recounting Quaker life in Northwest Iowa, ca. 1959. -
Thora Magelssen scrapbook, 1923-1932
Scrapbook of a Rushford, Minnesota teacher and homemaker, contains letters by Knut Gjerset, Kristian Prestgard, J.B. Wist, and O.E. Rølvaag clippings pertaining to them and Adolph Gunderson, Ragnvold Nestos, Henrik Shipstead, Dikke Reque, and the Magelssens.