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Olav Breivik clippings, 1930-1973
Copies of newspaper items concerning a Norwegian-born violin-maker. He came first to Chicago where he served as an apprentice before moving to Milwaukee and operating his own shop, from which he retired in 1962. -
Babe (Mildred) Didrikson Zaharias photographs, 1914-1956
A pictorial record of a remarkable woman athlete, the daughter of Norwegian-born parents. A biographical sketch is included in the file, with details of her many athletic achievements. -
Scandinavians In Hawaii, 1941-1945
An early labor contract, clippings, and xeroxed material concerning Norwegian immigrants to Hawaii in 1881. Some of the material was collected for the centennial celebration of their arrival in Hawaii. Includes: Book: "Waipahu at War: The War Record of a Hawaiian Sugar Plantation Community" compiled by R.H. Lodge. Contains information on Hans L'Orange. -
Ova Opager Hultquist papers, 1932-1952
Memorabilia from Kristiansund and Nordmøre collected by a Chicago resident. Included are hand-written recipes, and "Chicagokomiteens indsamling for Kristiansunds nye alderdomslagem." Includes: Norwegian newspaper clippings, pamphlet "Kristiansund: som vi husker den…" by Paul Ohrvik, published by Olaf B. Sverdrups trykkeri, photo booklet "Kristiansund, Kystens perle" published by Olaf B. Sverdrup, newspaper "Kjenn Ditt Land", no.6, 1932 Norwegian newspaper clippings, photo of "Den Indre Missions 50 Aars Jubilaeum", photo "Velkommen til Nordmor Mandskors", pamphlet "Kristiansund" published by Olaf B. Sverdrups trykkeri (date unknown), 2 handwritten books of recipes, a notebook of personal writings, in Norwegian, photo booklet "A/S Kristiansunds Forsikringsselskap", pamphlet "Kristiansund N. Før - Under Og Etter Bombing Og Brand 28/4 - 2/5 1940/. ("Before-During and After The Bombardment and Fire"), published by photographer Jan A. Engvig, Kristiansun N., 1946. -
Norske Lutherske Ungdomsforening "Fremgang" secretary book, 1927-1930
Records of an organization whose stated purpose was to further Christian life among the Norwegian young people in Chicago. -
Olaf Thesen dissertation, 1951
Trekk ved Utvandringa fra Ringsaker 1839 - 95, accepted at the University of Oslo for the doctor's degree. The dissertation deals with conditions in Ringsaker which created and encouraged the 'America fever': agriculture, farm economics and machinery, 'America letters', depressions, population explosion, California gold, and new processes of manufacture and of labor. 97 p, typescript. -
Jens Christian Meinich Hanson biography, 1907-1974
Copies of an untitled autobiography (284 pages, photocopy of typescript) and of the write-up in the Dictionary of American Library Biography (3 pages, 1978, by John Phillip Immroth), of the career of a distinguished Norwegian-born librarian, a graduate of Luther College in Decorah, 1882. He was chief of the Catalog Department of the Library of Congress, 1897 - 1910, where he "was directly involved in or responsible for...the Library of Congress Classification, Library of Congress subject headings, new catalog of the Library of Congress, the form and system of distribution of printed catalog cards, and formulation of catalog rules."
From 1910 to 1928 he served first as assistant director and later as acting director of the University of Chicago Libraries. From 1928 to 1934 he taught in the Graduate Library School of the University. In 1928 he also served as one of a group of American cataloging experts in the reorganization of the Vatican Library. The autobiography was edited by Oivind M. Hovde and published in 1974 by Luther College Press (321 p.), but without the index included here. See St. Olaf library: 'What Became of Jens" (Z720.H26A3 NAHA).
Includes offprint of his review of John A. Hofstead's 'American Educators of Norwegian Origin' in "Library Quarterly" July 1932; 31 clippings from C.G.O. Hansen clipping collection, 1907 - 1943 which include articles on relatives, and a series of articles "Erindringer fra ottiaarene" published 1934 - 35 in Scandia, and article "Reisen til Minneapolis' Valdrisstevne' from Skandinaven, August 18th, 1939; photograph of Hanson -
Hans Christofferson Tollefsrude diary, 1851-1856
A handwritten Dagbog, two Xerox copies and a translation of the diary about a journey to California from Rock County, Wisconsin, via New York and Panama. The diary gives information about digging for gold in California and general conditions there as well as the final disillusionment in the search for quick riches by the Norwegian-born writer. Tollefsrude had emigrated from Torpen, Nordre Land, 1844, and was one of the early settlers in the Rock Prairie, Wisconsin, settlement. A letter from C.H. Tollefsrude, Rolfe, Iowa, found in the D.G. Ristad Papers in the NAHA Archives reads: "Father's California Diary or Dagbog was kept from December, 1851, to October, 1856, covering the time of his absence from home. Upon his death May 17, 1903, the Dagbog came into my possession, but December 31, 1925, it was lost in a fire which at that time destroyed my home there. It was written in Norske.." -
Norris Olson obituary collection, 1896-1963
Approximately 100 manuscript obituaries and a few memorial leaflets, evidently submitted to a Menomonie, Wisconsin, newspaper, but in Dr. Norris Olson's file, which were forwarded to NAHA after his death in Illinois in 1963. The obituaries precede 1951, and most, but not all, bear Norwegian names. -
Thorstein Veblen clippings and articles, 1920-2005
The clippings from newspapers and periodicals (1906-1993) include articles by Lyder L. Undstad: "Thorstein Veblen som Nordmand," "Veblen, Marx, klassekamp og filosofi," and "The Man and his Socio-economic Ideas." In addition are articles by Abram L. Harris, Ernest W. Dewy, David L. Miller, Carlton C. Qualey, Paul David Eastwood, Russel Bartley, and Sylvia Yoneda. For related material, see collectons of his siblings Andrew A. Veblen (P 598) and Emily Veblen Olsen (P 571). Max Lerner called Thorstein Veblen "the most creative mind American social thought has produced." Veblen was born near Manitowoc, Wisconsin, of parents who emigrated from Vang, Valdres, in 1847. In 1865 the family moved to a farm less than one mile north of Nerstrand, Minnesota. This home has been restored.
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- 2 books: Veblen, Thorstein, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (New York: The Modern Library, 1934); Dowd, Douglas, Thorstein Veblen (New York: Washington Square Press, Inc., 1964). Also includes Veblen Collections at Carleton College: Introduction and Overview, by Eric Hillemann, archivist, 19 pp. (ca.1997): Thorstein B. Veblen Collection, Veblen Family Collection, Veblen Farmstead Collection, Records of the International Thorstein Veblen Association. Also includes 2 copies of Veblen in Perspective: The Intellectual Heritage of a Native Son, September 24, 1994, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. Contents include: Program and Reading Materials, including photocopies of Carlton C. Qualey, Thorstein Bunde Veblen, 1857-1929, from Makers of an American Immigrant Legacy: Essays in Honor of Kenneth O. Bjork (NAHA, 1980); sections of The Portable Veblen (Viking Press, 1948); Veblen's The Russell Bartley and Sylvia Yoneda, Thorstein Veblen on Washington Island from International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society (Summer 1994).
- Articles, 1953-
- Includes: Harris, Abram L., Veblen as Social Philosopher -- A Reappraisal, in Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy Vol. LXIII, No.3, Part II (University of Chicago Press, April 1953), pp. 1-32 (article includes following note: This essay will appear substantially as a part of a chapter in the forthcoming book, Economic Theory and Social Reforms, to be published by Harper & Bros.); Dewey, Ernest W. and David L. Miller, Veblen's Naturalism versus Marxian Materialism, reprinted from The Southwestern Social Science Quarterly (September, 1954), pp. 165-174; Dewey, Ernest W., Thorstein Veblen, Radical Apologist for Conservatism, reprinted from The American Journal of Economics and Sociology Vol.18, No.2 (January, 1959), pp. 171-180, signed quote(With warmest regards, Ernest W. Dewey); Brodersen, Arvid, Industrialisering og samfunnsform, A propos en bok av Thorstein Veblen; 2 copies of The Carleton Voice (Fall 1980), featuring Veblen, with articles on Veblen (Thorstein Veblen, 100 Years Later; Thorstein Veblen, The Last Man Who Knew Everything, --Veblen and Women, --Veblen and Teaching, --Veblen and His Alma Mater, --His Place in History, --In His Own Words); programs for Veblen in Perspective: The Intellectual Heritage of a Native Son, A Symposium and Exhibition at St. Olaf & Carleton Colleges (September 24, 1994); Eastwood, Paul David, Seeking Thorstein Veblen, Presented to the Ygdrasil Literary Society, Madison, WI on October 10, 1992, 19 pp.; photocopy of notice in the Missouri Book News about publication of Dreiser and Veblen, Saboteurs of the Status Quo (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press), including summary of the work; photocopy of Audrey Wendland, Outcast Genius: Shy Norwegian-American left mark on social thought, in Viking (February 1996), pp. 18, 33; slightly edited version of The Early Life of Thorstein Veblen, a paper, by Prof. J. F. Balzer of Carleton College, which he read to the Rice County Historical Society in 1936, published in The Rice County Historian Vol. 25, No.2 (March 1999); photocopy of Grennes, Thomas and Einar Kvam, Thorstein Bunde Veblen and his family: Valdres to America, in Budstikken (December 2000). File also includes: a reprint of a photograph of Veblen, with verso marked Carlton C. Qualey, 100 Nevada St., Northfield, Minn. 55057; enlarged reproduction of photograph of Veblen.
- Clippings (1906-1993)
- Includes: Literatur: An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation, Minneapolis Sondag Tidende (May 27, 1917); Present Course of Business Enterprise in an Analysis: Thorstein Veblen on Absentee Ownership--The Cooperative Movement in Russia, by William MacDonald, The New York Times Book Review (Apr. 13, 1924); Veblen, Marx, Klassekamg og Filosofi, by Lyder L. Unstad, Minneapolis Tidende (Apr. 13, 1933); Thorstein Veblen som nordmand, by Lyder L. Unstad, Minneapolis Tidende (Feb. 14, 1935); An Analyst of Modern Society: In Thorstein Veblen and His America Mr. [Joseph] Dorfman Writes the Life Of a Thinker Who Has Had Great Influence, by R. L. Duffus, The New York Times Book Review; Thorstein Veblen's Social Vision: A Collection of His Essays, Clear and Penetrating in Their Ideas, Which Proves Him to Have Been at Times Prophetic, by R. L. Duffus, The New York Times Book Review (Sept. 30, 1934); Thorstein Veblen: The Man and His Socio-Economic Ideas, by Lyder Unstad, Nordisk Tidende (Jan. 31, 1933); The Grandfather of Technocracy, The Milwaukee Journal (Mar. 22, 1935); More Reflections, by Junius (Jun. 29, 1945); Trip of the Week: Washington Island: To the Edge Of the Map (Veblen quote(spent his summers and wrote the rought [sic] draft of some of his monumental treatises) on Washington Island) (Jul. 16, 1964); photocopy of The Genius Was a Jerk, by Robert A. McCaughey, The New York Times Book Review (Feb. 7, 1993); Thorstein Veblen and the New Barbarians: A cranky Minnesotan coins an economic term for the ages, by Peter Ritter, in The Rake Vol. 3, Issue 36 (Feb. 2005). File also includes clippings of obituaries for Veblen.