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Madagascar Missions scrapbook, 1887-1968
Newspaper clippings and articles compiled regarding the work of the Norwegian Missionary Society, an off-shoot of the United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, at its mission in Madagascar. -
Karl Siewers papers, 1868-1992
Expedition from Christiana printed in commemoration of the 100th anniversary, Alfred Collett Siewers, born July, 1871, by Karl Siewers. 3 mimeographed copies; a collection of translated letters, biographical data, photographs, facsimiles. Letters center around Lyder Siewers and his wife Thrine Brandt Siewers who came in 1868 to Decorah, Iowa where he taught at Luther College (1863 - 1877) and was later an editor at Decorah-Posten (1877 - 1907). Mrs. Siewers made three trips to Norway and died there in 1908. A sister, Adda Siewers, accompanied the pair to Decorah. The trio moved to a farm beside a spring outside Decorah. The farm was later owned by members of the Hjelle family, relatives in the Brandt line. The spring is called Siewers Spring, and is the location of an Iowa State Fish Hatchery.
Includes:
- 3 copies of "Expedition from Christiania" printed in commemoration of the 100th anniversary, Alfred Collett Siewers, born July, 1871, by Karl Siewers; a sequel to "Expedition from Christiana' which contains brief 1992 reviews of the Siewer and Brandt families as well as miscellaneous letters, documents, and information that were not included in 'Expedition'; Harold Haarfagre Chart, thirty-eight generations of a Norwegian family (including eleven generations of the Siewers family); "Far Flung Norwegian Families: Siewers/Brandt, volume II: The Past" by Karl Siewers, 1992. 154 p.
- Items used at the Chicago Sesquicentennial Exhibit; Harold Haarfagre Chart: thirty-eight generations of a Norwegian family (including eleven generations of the Siewers family); photocopies of title pages of books owned by Lyder Siewers, and information about Alfred Collett (1840 - 1870) who was a close friend.
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Gunder Theodore Odland papers, 1882-1914
Diary of an emigrant from Stavanger, beginning April 15, 1882, the day he boarded ship for the journey to America. There is a day-by-day account of the journey which brought him to Grandin in Dakota Territory. He records his early experiences very completely with data on weather, expenses, letters, church attendance, visits, friends and his work. On December 31 of each year there is a complete accounting of the year's earnings and expenditures. He found work in the Fargo-Moorhead area as a blacksmith, on the railroad and at various other kinds of labor. In October 1882 he homesteaded 160 acres of land in Sargent County, North Dakota.
He spent some time there each year, but left occasionally to earn money at jobs near Fargo and also with the threshing crews on the Dakota farms. In the winter of 1888 he made a trip to Norway with the intention of staying, but he met and married Olena Haaland, changed his plans, and returned to America with her. She worked for a few months in Michigan and in the Odland's neighborhood before settling down on the claim in North Dakota. At the end of the year 1888 there is a four-page account of family history and an eight-page account of his travels.
After his marriage, Gunder made fewer entries and much briefer year-end accounting. He recorded the birth of each of his children: Mary, 1890, Theodore, 1892, Ellen, 1893, Edward, 1895, Clara, 1898, twins Albert and Lena, 1900 (Albert died), Anna, 1906. In 1892 the family moved to Eagle Bend, Minnesota, where Gunder had purchased 65 acres of land. A statement on the fly leaf of the diary in Gunder's hand is dated Eagle Bend, September 9, 1914. Here and there pages have been cut out of the diary. At the end of the book there are pages with recipes for making wine and beer, instructions for the care of cattle, and for raising crops.
An interesting feature of the diary is the inter-mixing of English expressions with the Norwegian, indicative of the gradual Americanization process. Some of the expressions have been noted on a separate page which together with other notes on the diary are included in the file. -
Emil Biørn papers, 1890-1900
Scrapbook of clippings, programs of musical, dramatic, and other entertainment activities in Chicago, 1890-1900, among the Scandinavians. Biørn was a versatile musician and artist, around whom was centered much of the cultural life amont the Scandinavians in Chicago during his lifetime. An appreciative essay which appeared in Skandinaven at the time of his death is pasted into the scrapbook. It is not known who compiled the scrapbook. -
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. -
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. -
Cass County School Dist. 45 (North Dakota) records, 1885-1892
Records of pupil attendance, course of study, text books, property, and visitors. -
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. -
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. -
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..."