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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. -
Ole Olson Osterud papers, 1833-1925
Papers of a Norwegian-born artisan and farmer of Ostrander, Minnesota, consisting of correspondence, diaries, legal papers, and pamphlets. The correspondence, 1854-1894, consists of Norway letters, a Civil War letter, and letters from New Ulm, St. Peter, Spring Valley, Walnut Grove, Preston, Hurdal, Red Wing, Minnesota; Coon Prairie, Sparta, Muskego, Wisconsin; and Revillo, Dakota. -
William T. Evjue clippings, 1940-1970
Clippings about the founder and editor of "The Capital Times" of Madison, Wisconsin. Evjue was born in Merrill, Wisconsin, of Norwegian-born parents and was on the staff of the "Milwaukee Sentinel" and of the "Wisconsin State Journal" before founding "The Capital Times." -
John A. Johnson papers, 1854-1969
Biography/History:
John Anders Johnson was born in Telemark, Norway, on April 15, 1832. He was the oldest of five children who were born to Anders Johnson (1804-188) and Aaste Killing Koven (1808-1893). The family emigrated to the United States in 1844. By 1852, the family moved to Pleasant Springs, Wisconsin – near Koshkonong. Johnson first married Karen Thompson in 1856. Before she died, they had a daughter, Caroline. Both died in 1860. He remarried in 1861 to Kaia Nicoline Kildahl, and had six children together: Frederick, Ella, Ida, Carl, Hobert, and Maurice. Johnson’s brother was Ole Skipness Johnson, a Norwegian-American soldier who served in the Civil War (Scandinavian Regiment).He was founder and president of Fuller & Johnson Manufacturing Company, of Gisholt Machine Company, and of Hekla Fire Insurance Company. In 1896, he was elected president of the National Association of Implement and Vehicle Manufacturers. Johnson helped found Amerika, a Chicago newspaper, in 1873. He wrote frequently on political, economic, and social topics such as tariff free silver, temperance, slavery, and education.
Johnson was a member of the Wisconsin legislature in 1857 and 1873-1874 and county clerk (1861-1869). His philanthropies included the University of Wisconsin, St. Olaf College, and the Gisholt Home for the Aged. NAHA published John A. Johnson, by Agnes M. Larson, in 1969.
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Papers of a Norwegian-born industrialist, inventor, and philanthropist from Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin. Materials include articles, clippings, contracts, correspondence, indentures, patents, pamphlets, receipts, records, reports, scrapbooks, and statements. Besides several pamphlets, publications include Det skandinaviske regiments historie (1869) and Fingerpeg for farmere og andre (1888). -
Syttende Mai records, circa 1933-circa 1982
Correspondence and clippings relating to American Syttende Mai festivals, including four pamphlets from Brooklyn, New York (1967-1982). Of interest is the material concerning the Moscow, Iowa county, Wisconsin (May, 1933), festival, which commemorated the 1873 celebration when Ole Bull and Rasmus B. Anderson appeared on the program together with Syver Holland, who sang Heimtraa, a folk ballad. -
Ole Godfred Landsverk papers, 1921-1985
Papers of the owner of the Landsverk Electrometer Company, Glendale, California. Landsverk was an enthusiastic promoter of the Kensington Runestone and other runic inscriptions, with emphasis on cryptographic messages to be found in them. He also was research director for the Leif Erikson Association in Los Angeles, and a leader in the campaign for a Congressional Proclamation of 9 October as Leif Erikson Day. -
Frank C. Nelson papers, 1968-1982
Thesis and scholarly articles written of an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Includes:- Thesis for the degree of Ph. D. entitled "The American School Controversy among the Norwegian-Americans, 1845-1881" Submitted to the Department of Secondary Education and Curriculum, Michigan State University, 1968.
- Articles: "The Norwegian-American's Image of America" published in "Illnois Quarterly" (April 1974); "A Test of Andrew M. Greeley's Six Step Theory of Ethnic Assimilation by the Use of Norwegian-American Historiography" published in "Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society" (1982).
- Article: "The School Controversy among Nineteenth Century Norwegian-American Immigrants" published in "Norwegian-American Studies" v.26 (1974).
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Vesterheim Museum papers, 1923-2004
Since 1969, when the name "Vesterheim" was adopted, an independent corporation which administers the Museum collection and also by terms of an agreement the collection known as the Luther College Collection. -
Pacific Coast Norwegian Singers Association papers, 1903-1995
Papers consist of the Sangerfest souvenir programs, other programs, and programs of other singing groups in the Seattle area. Donated in 1969 by the Norwegian Male Chorus of Seattle on its 80th Anniversary.
Includes:- Clippings (1903-1996).
- Souvenir programs from the annual Sangerfest held by the Association (1903-1949)
- Other programs and miscellaneous (1909-1995)
- Souvenir programs from the annual Sangerfest held by the Association (1950-1981)
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Carl M. Ringen Gunderson manuscripts, 1969-1970
Manuscript volumes of Carl M. Ringen Gunderson. For an article on Gunderson by Karen E. Hogen, see Western Viking, October 16, 1964. See also Vera Joyce Fox Kvamme Papers, P0764.
Includes:- "Leif Erikson Genealogy: Lists all forefathers and known relatives" (1969).
- "Famous Americans of Norwegian Descent: 13 Presidents of the United States, 11 Signers of the Declaration of Independence" (1969)
- "The Leif Erikson Stamp, Issued by the United States Post Office Department, 1968" (1969)
- "Norwegian Ancestors of General George Washington, First President of the United States" (1969)
- "Biography and Ancestry of Andrew Furuseth, 1854-1938" (1970)
- "Ancestral Chart of John Anon 'Snowshoe' Thompson" (1970)