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Elise Torgrimson Fjelde Glesne papers, 1869-1946
Poems, both in original and translated form, and a story entitled "Da bedstemor var hos os" by the wife of an Iowa Lutheran clergyman.
Content:
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Elise Wærenskjold papers, 1839-2010
From the Knut Gjerset papers on women and Norwegian American Encyclopedia.
Letters and other writings regarding Wilhelm and Elise Waerenskjold. A pastor's daughter, Elise lead a party emigrating to Texas between October 1846 and March 1847. The Waerenskjolds married in 1848, settling at Four Mile Prairie. Her letters and other writings serve as a primary source of information about the Norwegians who settled in Texas.
Also includes:
- Photocopies of letters from Elise Waerenskjold to Oscar Reierson, 1883, 1890
- Books edited by Charles H. Russell
- Light on the Prairie: New Writings of Elise Wærenskjold (Houston, TX: Shining Brightly Books, 2010)
- Undaunted A Norwegian Woman in Frontier Texas (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2006).
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Elizabeth Fedde papers, 1883-2000
40 typescript pages. "Memoirs of Sister Elizabeth," translated by P. J. Hertsgaard, is an account of a Norwegian-born deaconess who began her career at the Deaconess Home in Christiania (now Oslo) in 1873, and who came to New York in 1883, where she organized a deaconess program in connection with the Seaman's Mission Church in Brooklyn. Eventually she established deaconess hospitals in Brooklyn and in Minneapolis. This account covers briefly her career in Norway and only her two first years in the United States.
The file includes a photocopy of a 13-page typescript titled "The Long Journey of Deaconess Nursing in America" by an unknown author, and two articles in Norwegian, 61 and 23 pages, which discuss Deaconess work and its history in Norway. An account of Fedde's career by Beulah Folkedahl is in "Studies and Records," volume 20, 1959. Includes: Diary, 1958-1959 Original translation with B. Folkedahl's introduction as published in "Studies" volume 20 "Memories of Sister Elizabeth" by P.J. Hertsgaard translation, 1933 Clippings, correspondence, and deaconess history, 1883-2000 Sister Elizabeth Fedde's notes, undated Translation of autobiography by B. Folkedahl, 1958-1959 -
Elizabeth Lomen interview, 1995 September 6
In this series of interviews by Odd Lovoll for his books “The Promise of America: History of the Norwegian-American People” and “The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today." Celeste Holm was an American stage, film and television actress. Holm won an Academy Award for her performance in Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement, and was nominated for her roles in Come to the Stable and All About Eve Unprocessed This item is currently restricted. -
Ella Henning family history, circa 1903
"Ella's Journal: An unsuspected Legacy" by Judy Aaker, 2012. Includes original journal and transcription of Ella Henning, a resident of Goodhue County, Minnesota, on her travels out west in June of 1903 with her brother Louis (Lars) and bride Jenney on their honeymoon.
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Ella V. Rolvaag Tweet papers, 1924-1948
Papers of O.E. Rolvaag's daughter. In 1944 she taught in the Foreign Area & Language Study program at the University of Minnesota, and class cards for her students (and many letters from them) are included.
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Ellefson-Hetland family history, undated
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Ellen and Kari Baalson family history, 1961
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Ellen Knudtson Howard memoir, 1969-1970
Born in Independence, Trempealeau, Wisconsin, to Hellick Knudtson and Gunda Gunderson. Ellen married Wilhelm Berhart Howard and had 3 children.
Topics include:
"My Trip to Little Norway" (Blue Mounds, Wisconsin), pgs. i-iv;
immigrating in 1843 from Flesberg, Numedal Norway via Quebec (robbed of all assets), p. vi;
traveling by covered wagon, p. viii;
Christmas gifts made from wool, p. x;
Section "Dad Meets Mother", pgs. x1v-xvii:
Hellick Knudtson & Gunda Gunderson, settled in Independence, later Eleva, Wisconsin; School in Strum, Wisconsin, julebukk, p. xv;
Church activities in Strum, Rev. Carl J. Helsem pg. xvi.
Section I: "My Earliest Recollections"
Father's blacksmith shop, p. 2;
Childhood games (no toys), use of wood shavings as doll curls, pg. 3;
Wedding gift of stove, kitchen chores, lefse making, p. 10;
Spankings, p. 13;
Paper dolls, p. 15, 25;
May Day baskets, p. 15;
Picking wild flowers & hazelnuts, pgs. 16, 18;
Clothing (girl) and use of flour sacks (also for diapers), pgs. 17, 21, 33;
Dressing an infant, p. 22;
Christmas, p. 29;
Washing/laundry, p. 31;
Primary school, p. 33;
Circus, p. 36;
Funeral held in home, p. 40;
Lunches & canning berries, p. 41.
Section 2 : "Life on the Farm," Eleva, Wisconsinm 1900-1903
Corn husks & straw for bedding, p. 4, 10;
Kitchen table, p. 8;
Quilts (flour sacks for backing), tying, quilting bees, crazy quilts, rag-rugs, hooked rugs, carpet rags, straw bedding for rugs, cleaning carpets, pgs, 10-12, 36-38;
Mosquito netting, coffee, p. 14, 18;
Chickens & eggs, p. 15;
Milking cow, chasing flies, p. 16, 20;
Blueberry picking, p. 21;
Country school, water pail and dipper, slates, recess (not to speak Norwegian), parochial school (not to speak English), pgs. 23-26;
Sex, p. 28;
Hay shocks, p. 29;
Weekly newspaper, Independence News Wave, p. 31;
Assassination of Pres. McKinley, p. 32;
Modern flush toilet, bed bugs, gypsy peddler, pgs. 34-40;
Father's whiskers, p. 41;
Grain threshing and shocks, p. 42;
First orange eaten, stores and fruit, bananas (sent as stalks and cut off for patron) p. 43;
Pregnancy and appearance, p. 45.
Section 3: Post-high school
Teacher's Institute, p. 81;
Teaching in Strum, Wisconsin. (Hamlin School), p. 83;
Aaker's Business School, p. 89;
Teaching near Watertown, South Dakota (country school/Hayti), p. 102, 108;
Powdered sugar/frosting, p. 104;
Trumm family, p. 105;
Sour family, Bryant, South Dakota, p. 118;
Dances, p. 123, 152, 195;
Rev. Dexheimer, p. 124;
Teaching in Hayti, South Dakota (1913), p. 124.
Teaching in Strum, Wisconsin (1913-1915), p. 131;
Homesteading in Malta, Montana, p. 147;
Indians (Native Americans), p. 155;
Haug family, p. 154, 155;
Free-Lutheran, p. 164;
Single women homesteading/shack, clearing land, laundry, thunderstorms, p. 173-180, 293;
sidecar motorcycle, p. 190, 200;
Zortman, Montana; prairie fire/fire break, p. 202;
Buffalo chips for heating, p. 204;
Suffrage vote in Montana, 1916;
Pregnancy/labor pains/delivery/nursing/clothing, p. 216, 222, 230, 236, 237,240;
Wheat and patriotism, p. 228;
Barley flour pancakes, World War I effort, patriotic pancakes, p. 245;
Cholichy baby, p. 247;
Armistice/whistles blowing, p. 253;
Raising chickens, p. 277;
Rain water for coffee, p. 293;
Vananda, Montana, p. 300;
Wash machine/laundry, p. 308;
4th of July/fireworks, p. 310;
Lambert, Montana, p. 312;
Helena, Montana and Madame Ericke Zimmerman, p. 326;
Albert Grorud, Thompson Falls, Montana and Hotel fire, p. 332;
Polson & Dixon, Montana, p. 335-341;
Miles City, Montana, p. 342;
Rev. Stephen Dale, p. 343;
St. Olaf Choir/F.M. Christiansen in Miles City, Montana, p. 344;
Flour sacks made into sheets & pillow slips, p. 348;
Glendive, Montana. "Heard first radio music, 'Yes sir, That's my baby!" (1926), p. 354;
Ordered Easter lily, p. 355;
Door-to-door saleslady (lingerie & magazines), p. 363;
Collecting water from railroad tank cars, Vananda, Montana, p. 367;
Superior, Wisconsin, p. 368;
purchased grocery store "Howards Grocery" (1940), p. 371;
World War II and Pearl Harbor, ration stamps, p. 379-381;
two sons in military service, p. 381-401.
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Ellenor Ranghild Merriken collection, 1999
Looking for Country: A Norwegian Immigrant's Alberta Memoir by Ellenor Ranghild Merriken, 1999.