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• Mabel Fredricksen album and volume, circa 1840

  Photograph album and small bound volume entitled "Den gamle Richards Kunst at blive rig og lykkelig" which is a Danish translation, published 1840, of Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanac."
• Anna Sekse Kindem papers, 1957-1976

  Clippings of letters and articles by Mrs. Kindem and a few articles by other authors which appeared mostly in the Norwegian newspapers: "Hardanger," "Telemark Tidend," and "Odda Kyrkjeblad." Written from Northfield, Minnesota, the letters include topics such as prices, employment, politics, crops, Fourth of July, 1939 visit of Norwegian royalty, World War II, memories from Norway, St. Olaf College, Norwegian-American festivities, travel in the United States and Norway. Mrs. Kindem immigrated in 1923.
  
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  • Clippings, "Hardanger" (12 August 1938-11 December 1957)
  • Translations of Anna Sekse Kindem's letters to Norwegian newspapers, by Charlotte Jacobson (1978)
  • Clippings, articles, and letters (1946-1959)
  • Clippings, "Hardanger" (5 March 1958-14 March 1976)
• Magazine of the Chicago Sun-Times, 1968

  The 29 September 1968 issue is devoted to Scandinavians in Chicago relating to food, fashions, persons, societies, and Leif Erikson.
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  Rasmus Bjørn Anderson papers, 1872-1918

  Clippings, correspondence, genealogy, music, pamphlets, and photographs of a Wisconsin-born author, diplomat, editor, and educator. The clippings deal largely with Anderson controversies. Anderson was professor of Norwegian at the University of Wisconsin, United States minister to Denmark, and editor of "Amerika" (1898-1922), Madison, Wisconsin.
  
  Rasmus Björn Anderson papers, 1823-1936 at the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison is over 16.8 cubic feet (65 archives boxes) and contains photographs, correspondence, and more.
  
  See "Rasmus Bjørn Anderson: Pioneer Scholar," by Lloyd Hustvedt, NAHA, 1966.
• Gunder Paulsen papers, 1878, 1944

  Copy of "Minder fra Tiden omkring Aaret 1830 til 1848," published in 1872, and a 132-page typescript translation of the same. The reminiscences deal with attorney Paulsen's childhood and youth in Solør, Norway.
  
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  Sons and Daughters of Norway Building Association of Minneapolis, Inc. papers, 1920-1958
  

  Correspondence, minutes, and financial reports of a group composed of several Sons of Norway and Daughters of Norway lodges organized to provide a place for lodge meetings. The Association was dissolved in 1958.
• Harry H. Anderson articles and clippings, 1954-1980

  Articles by the executive director of the Milwaukee County Historical Society, all published in "Historical Messenger of the Milwaukee County Historical Society" and "Milwaukee History," March 1969-Spring 1980 (complete issues). One folder of clippings about Norwegians in Wisconsin from the files of the Historical Society.
  
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  • Early Scandinavian Immigration in Milwaukee" (March 1969); "Gustaf Unonius and the Episcopal Mission to the Scandinavians" (June 1970); "Scandinavian Immigration in Milwaukee Naturalization Records" (Spring and Summer 1978); "Norwegian Shipbuilding in Early Milwaukee" (Autumn and Winter 1978); "Fiction as History: Local Novelists Depict the Local Heritage" (Spring 1980).
  • Clippings about Norwegians in Wisconsin, from the files of the Milwaukee County Historical Society (1954-1978).
• Hans Olaus Kaasbøll papers, 1782, 1829

  Transcript of propositions in geometry by Kaasbøll.
  
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  Theodore Jorgenson papers, circa 1911-circa 1950

  Biography/History: 
  Theodore Jorgenson immigrated in 1911 and was a member of the St. Olaf College faculty (1925-1966). Among his many publications, he was the author of "History of Norwegian Literature," "Norway's Relation to Scandinavian Unionism, Ole Edvart Rølvaag: A Biography" (with Nora O. Solum), "Henrik Ibsen: A Study in Art and Personality," and "Norwegian-English School Dictionary." He was the Democratic Farmer-Labor nominee for the United States Senate in 1946.

  Scope and Content: 
  Correspondence, articles, clippings, diaries, family history, handbooks, lectures, lecture notes, minute book, notebooks, pamphlets, poems, reports, scrapbooks, speeches, and translations of a Norwegian-born professor of Norwegian at St. Olaf College.

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  Hans Sjurson Hilleboe papers, 1875-1967

  Articles, catalogues, certificates, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, notebooks, manuscripts, temperance literature, clippings, and family histories of a Wisconsin-born educator. Hilleboe was principal of Willmar Seminary; superintendent of Benson, Minnesota, public schools; principal of the preparatory department at Luther College; and professor of education at Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.