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Clippings and notes giving biographical information about a Minnesota artist, some of whose paintings are of the Lofoten area in Norway, where her mother was born.
Thesis and scholarly articles written of an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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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).
Musings and Memories of Franklin Evans Roach, 1999. His maternal grandparents were Lars Torgerson (or Torgersen), born in Notteroy, Norway in 1834, and Christine Dorthea Knudsdatter, born in Larvik, Norway in 1837. They married in 1859 in Larvik.
Formerly part of P539.
Manuscripts of sea stories and poems by a Norwegian-born New York City editor, poet, and railroad employee. Petersen was editor of "Nordisk Tidende" (1907-1911), founder of "Det nye Norge" in 1911, and contributor to "Norgesposten." He was author of two collections of poems: "Ensomme frivagtsstunde" (1900) and "Siv i strommen (1907).
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Kallebas' første feise tilsjøs" published in "Decorah Posten" (1938).
"Farlige skibskamerater" published in "Skandinaven" (1938).
"Pacific Fishermen, Inc. 150 Years of Heritage Norwegian Shipbuilding" By Fred F. Poyner IV and John Douglas Dixon.
"A tribute to the Norwegian-heritage fishermen and shipwrights of the Pacific Northwest. An eclectic and essential group who have survived the ravages of the 1918 Spanish Flu and the 2021 COVID-19 Coronavirus. As a testament to this the King of Norway, HM King Harald V, specifically requested a visit to the shipyard on his tour of America in 2015. He specifically wanted to congratulate his cadre of Norwegian-American Fishing Pioneers and Knights-in-Waiting at a PacFish BBQ where he of course was served King Crab!"
Correspondence of a Norwegian-born engineer and inventor, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, dealing with "Det Norske Selskap." Schaeffer Equipment Company Railway Materials, located in the Henry W. Oliver Building, Pittsburgh, PA.
Material about Frederiksen (born in Fredrikshald, Norway, of Danish father and Norwegian mother) who grew up in Sweden, studied in Germany, performed in England and emigrated to Chicago about 1905. A violinist, conductor and teacher, he was associated with the Columbia School of Music, a leader of the Chicago Scandinavian String Quartet and the Chicago Musical College.
Includes an article "Scandinavian musicians I have known" (the Intermezzo, 1935). Also information about his pianist wife, Grace.