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• Camp Nidaros papers, 1923-2022

  Papers of Camp Nidaros, a group of summer cottages owned chiefly by pastors at Ottertail Lake, Ottertail County, Minnesota. The original site was purchased in 1909; later it was expanded, and together with other similar sites, Camps Hutton, Lingerlong, and Wenonah Beach, organized the Lutheran Camp Service Association at Camp Nidaros. The Association wrote a constitution to cover Sunday church services.
  
  Includes: 
  

  • Minutes of Annual Meetings (1923-1980).
  • Historical Sketches: Translation of A. J. Hulteng's history written for the 20th Anniversary in 1929, done by Judith Rorstad Anderson for the 50th Anniversary in 1959; "An Historic Update" prepared by Bernice Soelberg Hobart for the 70th Anniversary in 1979; a brief 90th Anniversary update by Paul Eid done in 1999.
  • Minutes of Annual Meetings (1981-2015); correspondence and anniversary materials for the 75th Anniversary (1984).
  • “If Cabins Could Talk,” A history of Camp Nidaros, written by its residence, compiled by Beverly and Stanley Satre on the occasion of the 100th anniversary celebration, July 18-19, 2009.
  • Annual meeting minutes, 2017-2022
• Camp Norway papers, 1975-2000

  Papers dealing with a camp (first at Eckbo School near Lake Mjøsa, from 1978 at Sandane, Nordfjord) offering "five weeks of total immersion in Norwegian language and culture" sponsored by the Norwegian-American Cultural Institute, accredited by Augsburg College (Minneapolis) and the Minnesota State Department of Education. Correspondence, reports, minutes, newsletters, lists of members and officers, etc. Donated by Marion Nelson and Christian K. Shjervold. Includes copy of By-laws
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  Campbell Norsgaard collection, 1938-1946

  Biography/History: 
  Norsgaard was a professional photographer and cinematographer, originally from Norway, but for much of his late life he lived in Lakeville, Connecticut. Campbell Norsgaard was the official photographer for the Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNAF) and its training facilities in Canada from nearly the beginning of World War II until its closure. During this period, he photographed the servicemen and their airplanes, the Royal Family, various training facilities and many official and unofficial activities. Later in life, Norsgaard made nature documentaries for the National Geographic Society.

  Scope and Content:
  The photographic collection by Campbell Norgaard consists of slides, transparencies, and negatives dating from the early part of World War II through the close of the war. Most of the color transparencies are from Canada, including aerial views of Vesle Skaugum, portraits of Colonel Ole Reistad, and examples of pilots and their planes. A majority of the slides are from the RNAF airlift of transport aircraft from Canada to India during the war. Some slides show airplane hangers and training facilities, as well as crewmen interacting with the people of India. In addition, there are color slides documenting the return of King Haakon VII to Norway. 

  The 35mm black and white negatives cover different geographic locations from Canada, India, Norway, and England, not to mention Sigrid Undset’s trip across the Soviet Union to Japan and the United States during the war. There are also some negatives of the Royal Family and Armistice in Norway. The black and white negatives are of peace days in Norway, the 199th Division United States Forces on Parade in Oslo (1945) and the RNAF in Canada in relation to the India airlift.  There are also portraits of Norwegian pilots standing with their aircraft which are signed in ink by the pilots. 

  Nineteen 16mm reel-to-reel films from about 1942-1946. Much of the footage was filmed in black-and-white.  Documents life at Camp Little Norway in Canada, the Royal Family in Canada, the Royal Norwegian Air Force, the Royal Family returning home, and Norway/Russia tour, and more.
  
  Existence and Location of Copies:
  Digital copies of the Campbell Norsgaard collection is available through the Digital Collections of the Norwegian American Historical Association website: https://www.norwegianamericanhistory.org/digital-collections/collections/show/156. Digitization was completed in 2024-2025.
  

  Funding
  Funding to digitize the Campbell Norsgaard papers was provide by the National Endowment for the Humanities. 
  
  

  Processing Information:
  Processing and finding aid by Kristina Warner.

   

• Campion-Bernhard family history, 1978

  No description available.
• Camrose Lutheran College papers, circa 1910

  Catalogues and reports of an academy and junior college founded at Camrose, Alberta, in 1910. On July 1, 2004, Augustana University College merged with the University of Alberta to become a separate faculty and satellite campus of the university.
• Carl A. Sjolander papers, 1852-1871

  A testimonial issued by the parish pastor in 1852 to Sjolander's parents on their departure to America, and the constitution and by-laws of the Hekla Fire Insurance Company, Madison, Wisconsin, incorporated March, 1871, possibly the only such society operated by Norwegian Americans. Sjolander lived in Onalaska, Wisconsin.
• Carl Anthonsen papers, 1923-1975

  Excerpts from the Journal of Carl Anthonsen, together with a tribute to Anthonsen from Russell S. Page, and a letter from Cynthia Anthonsen Foster, his widow, which includes biographical data about a Norwegian-American who came to Boston, Massachusetts, around 1900.
• 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.
  
  Includes:
  Dorothy G. Page, "Polar Pilot: The Carl Ben Eielson Story" (1992) and "'Ben': The Life Story of Col. Carl Ben Eielson" (1930).
• Carl C. Berg family history, undated

  Includes biography of Carl C. Berg of Fremont Township, Wisconsin and short genealogy.
• Carl Døving papers, circa 1923-1936

  A letter from Døving to "Kjære ven," February 4, 1923; "The Døving Hymn Collection," by Frank R. Miller, published in "The Friend," February, 1936; photocopies of 15 hymns translated by Døving; and lists of translations which have been made of two Lutheran hymns. Døving was a Lutheran clergyman and a student of hymns. His collection was given to Luther College.
  
  Contents
  

  • Miscellaneous letters received (June 1893). Letter from H. W. Scheel, Luther College; Regina Hilleboe; Rev. O. E. Jolseth, Rev. Carl Døving and his impressions of Washington, D.C.; G.H. Gerberding

  
  
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