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Papers of the editor and publisher of the "Story City Herald," Story City, Iowa, a 5-page typescript biography and three booklets on local history. Includes: "Panorama of Forty Three Years as a Country Editor. Historical Supplement Story City Herald. April 8, 1948", "Supplement Oct. 24, 1940. The Story City Herald Anniversary Number A quintuplet Celebration. 1940", Story City Jubilee Book. Golden Anniversary Book of Story City (1931), "Story City, Iowa," by Paul a. Olson (1952).
Unpublished manuscripts of a Norwegian-born Lutheran clergyman: the first, a drama titled "Pastor Brown," deals with the problem of building a church in a pioneer Minnesota congregation made up of conflicting groups. The second (unfinished), titled "A Norseman in the Melting Pot," recounts the experiences of a young Norwegian immigrant in Chicago and the Fox River settlement and his visit to the homeland after nine years in America.
Papers of a Norwegian-born Lutheran clergyman: a memorial article by John O. Hougen (25 leaves manuscript) and transl. By L.A. Mathre, 1966 (20 leaves), Hoyme's President's Report to the Conference of the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1888 (61 leaves manuscript), clippings regarding his death, and notebooks. Hoyme was president of the Conference (1886-1890) and of the United Lutheran Church (1890-1902). Includes: 1 autograph book, 1878-1888, with entries by his wife, Carl J.Helsem, Ole 0. Hanstad, Sven R. Gunnersen, John Blegen, Peder Olson, Kristofer Janson, A.L. Underthun, A. Jensen, J.H. Grøtheim, L. Lund, O.H. Stenson. 1 notebook: Gisle Johnson's lectures on dogmatics 1 notebook: Gisle Johnson's lectures on "den nyere theologies historie" 1850 1 notebook: Gisle Johnson's "det paulinske lærebegreb" 1851 1 notebook: Grimelund'sliturgik og homiletik 1 notebook: "Nodebog for Ole Olson Næsset, Tromsø Seminarium 1863" (music)
Biography, clippings, correspondence, scrapbooks, and pictures dealing with the career of a Norwegian-born artist. Educated in Norway, Belgium, and Paris, Sønnichsen emigrated in 1904. His best known works are his picture panels in the New Brunswick (Canada) church windows, his portraits of Roald Amundsen and Ole Bull, the murals in Seattle's Norway House, and his Alaska landscapes. He is a brother of architect S. Engelhart Sønnichsen.
Scrapbook of clippings from American and Norwegian newspapers compiled by a schoolteacher and nurse from Coon Valley and La Crosse, Wisconsin. Among the items are a poem by Kristofer Janson, O. J. Breda's address at the Kristofer Janson festival in Decorah, and Laur. Larsen's address at the President Garfield memorial program in Decorah. The sources of the clippings are not given, last noted date is 1883.