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Papers of a St. Paul woman who was a leader in Norwegian-American organizations, especially in the Norse-American Centennial Celebration in 1925, the Norse-American Centennial Daughters of St. Paul, and the Minnesota Leif Erickson Monument Association. She held offices in all of these organizations and continued to sponsor an annual Leif Erickson celebration after the monument had been erected in 1949. She was also an officer in the group which administered Lyngblomsten Home for the Aged in St. Paul. The papers include some of these records. The above papers were donated by Mrs. Brack's daugher, Ione Kadden, St. Paul. A collection of the records of the Norse American Daughters of St. Paul was donated by Mrs. Brack earlier and has been cataloged separately.
Select materials from the Josephine Brack papers have been digitized and available online here.
Reports describing the activities and collections of the Institute: Norseman's World-Wide Emigration Archives, in Stavanger, Norway. The institute was established in 1970.
Papers about the Camps/Villages associated with Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, many regarding Skogfjorden, the Norwegian Language Village. See also in St. Olaf Library, "Skogfjorden: Ethnicity and a Contemporary Foreign Language Camp," a thesis by Margit Lea Myklebust presented to the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, December 2003.
Clippings about and letters to Pauline Farseth, who taught at North High School in Minneapolis and at an International Institute in St. Paul, and was active in cultural activities in the Minneapolis and St. Paul areas. She also translated Gro Svendsen's letters, which NAHA published as "Frontier Mother."
Copy of a pamphlet, "Minder og erfaringer," published in Copenhagen, dealing with a Norwegian immigrant family in Wisconsin, who brought up one son to become a physician in a Seventh-day Adventist health care institution and four to become Seventh-day Adventist ministers.
Letters addressed to Mrs. Nels U. Person, Columbus, North Dakota, from relatives in Norway, and one from her mother, dated Montevideo, Minnesota. Many of the letters are undated and fragmentary. These letters were found in an abandoned farm house near Columbus in August 1966 by John Paul Rhinehart of Amarillo, Texas.
Autobiography of a Norwegian-born retired school superintendent, for a time superintendent of Ebenezer Home in Minneapolis (1946-1962). Includes descriptions of his childhood and youth in Norway, his emigration to the United States in 1913, his school days at Jewell Lutheran College and St. Olaf College, his experiences in both World Wars, and his work in the Iowa schools and at the Ebenezer Home. He retired to Northfield, Minnesota, in 1962.
List of source materials available in the State Historical Society at Madison, Wisconsin, which relate to Norwegian Americans, made by a graduate student of history at the University of Wisconsin.
Papers of a minister in the Methodist Church. Includes biographical information, letters, clippings, articles, and celebrations of his 100th and subsequent birthdays (1924-1988). Also includes videotapes of a television program about Schevenius (1987), and writings on Norwegian-Danish Methodism in Minnesota, 1850-1943 (1973).
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Biographical information, letters, clippings, articles, and celebrations of his 100th and subsequent birthdays (1924-1988).
Videotapes of a television program about Schevenius (1987).
Writings on Norwegian-Danish Methodism in Minnesota, 1850-1943 (1973).