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• Beulah Folkedahl papers, 1949-1971

  Papers of a trained historian who spent her retirement years, 1960-1971, as curator of the NAHA Archives, organizing the collections and making available a great mass of historical material for further research. Volume 25 of "Norwegian-American Studies" is dedicated to her memory.
  
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  • Correspondence, tributes, photographs (1949-1971). Includes several photographs of Ms. Folkedahl working in NAHA.
  • "From the Archives," her working papers and typescripts for the section which appeared in the "Norwegian-American Studies" volumes (n.d.).
  • Reprints of articles written by Folkedahl for "The Wisconsin Magazine of History" (1952-1954).
  • Lindaas letters, translations of selections from materials in the Wisconsin Historical Society (1958-1960). Lindaas letters date range: 1858-1869.
• Bible Institute and Academy catalogue, 1918-1919

  Catalogue (1918-19) of an institution founded by the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Free Church in 1910 in Rushford, Minnesota, and moved to Minneapolis in 1916. Also an advertisement for its 22nd school year, October 1, 1931.
• Bible Schools reports, undated

  Reports regarding several Bible schools in Minnesota and North Dakota.
• Billet-Hagen-Thonette family history, undated

  No description available.
  Formerly part of P539.
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  Birger Osland papers, circa 1910-circa 1950

  Biography/History:f
  Ole Birger Osland (1870-1963) was an official in various enterprises of Charles H. Wacker (1893-1911); founder and president of Birger Osland and Company, investment bankers (1911-1940); general western manager of the Norwegian America Steamship Line (1911-1923) and for many years a member of its board of representatives; secretary-treasurer of Lake Otis Groves, Inc.; director of the Scandinavian Trust Company of New York until its merger with New York Trust Company; and vice president of Chicago Security Dealers Association. From 1917 to 1919 Osland was an attaché with rank of major in the Military Intelligence Division of the U.S. Army, stationed in Christiania (now Oslo), and also a member of the U.S. Food Administration, Copenhagen. 

  Osland was a trustee of the Century of Progress Exposition; member of the Norwegian-American World's Fair Auxiliary Committee; treasurer of NAHA for 25 years; director and also president of the Norwegian-American Hospital; and national treasurer of Norwegian Relief, Inc., during World War II. 

  Scope and Content:
  Includes material on the various Chicago Norwegian organizations and institutions: Arne Garborg Klub, Den Norske Quartet Klub, Det Norske Nationalforbund, Den Norske Klub, Dovre Klub (politics), Sleipner Athletic Club, Norwegian Fish Club (businessmen's luncheon group), American Norwegian Chamber of Commerce, Norwegian Pioneers Club, Norwegian-American Athletic Association, Norwegian Literary Society, Norwegian People's Academy, Norwegian Players, Norwegian Singers' League, Norske Skiklub, Norwegian-American Hospital, Norwegian Old People's Home, and several non-church-affiliated institutions. Osland wrote frequently for the press about his civic interests, including articles on Chicago Norwegians. He promoted the compilation of his family genealogy, "Aasland-ætten," by Ola Aurenes (1947); and he wrote his own biography, "A Long Pull from Stavanger," published by NAHA in 1945.  

  The correspondence in this collection, about half of which is letters by Osland, deals with business enterprises, civic interests, philanthropy, and family. Topics discussed include city, state, and federal politics; banking and investments; Osland's work as organizer of American financial participation in the Norwegian America Line in 1911-1912; and the participation of Norway and Norwegian Americans in the Century of Progress Exposition. Correspondents other than those recorded in the inventory include: C. Martin Alsage, Knud Henderson, Halfdan Lee, R. B. Anderson, Thor Heyerdahl, Sigurd Maseng, John Benson, Knute Hill, Wilhelm Morgenstierne, E. Berentsen, John A. Hofstead, O. M. Norlie, C. F. Berg, Eivind Hognestad, H. P. G. Norstrand, B. E. Bergeson, Hjalmar Rued Holand, Oystein Øre, Olaf Bernts, Pres. Herbert Hoover, Jens A. Paasche, Einar Beyer, Andrew Hummeland, Thomas J. Pihlfeldt, Juul Dieserud, Henry O. Jaastad, Frederick Ring, E. N. Figved, Kristofer Janson, John W. Binding, George Flom, Carl Johnson, T. A. Siqueland, Nicolai A. Grevstad, Joseph M. Johnson, Oscar N. Solbert, Ernest Grundlach, S. Munch Kielland, Jno. J. Sonsteby, C. G. O. Hansen, Arnold S. Kirkeby, Vilhjalmur Stefanson, Harry Sundby - Hansen, Paul Knaplund, Henry A. Stibolt, Ludvig Hektoen, Egil E. Krogh, Carl Søyland Andreas Helland, Henning Larsen, O.A. Tingelstad F. J. Henderson, Victor Lawson, B. Wick.

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  Birgit (Larsen) Jensen papers, 1913-1980

  Clippings, correspondence, poems, pictures, notes, and souvenirs concerning a Chicago woman and her activities in Norwegian organizations in that city.
• Bjarne Hillervik letter, 1979

  Copy of a letter to Rolf Erickson from a retired carpenter, giving details of his life in Norway and in Chicago, and telling of how he began building model fishing boats. A model of his "fembing," a boat used in the Lofoten Islands region, is on display at the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, Iowa
• Bjarne M. Thrane poems, 1937-1950

  Typewritten copies of Norwegian and English poems written by an "old timer" in Ketchikan, Alaska. One poem, "Hilsen til Statminister Nygaardsvold," was published in "Sanger-Hilsen," March, 1943.
• Bjerke family history, 1967

  Family history of the Erik and Berthe Marie Bjerke family, 1818-1967.
• Bjorguf Newton family history, undated

  No description available.