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Georg B. Anthonisen papers, 1935-1940
Abstract
Papers of a Norwegian-born inventor and engineer who emigrated in 1910 and worked for the Great Northern Railway and the Minnesota Highway Department. Correspondence and blueprints of his spring spikes and variable twisted track spikes. See "Norwegian American Technical Journal," 10:8 (Feb. 1937) and Kenneth Bjork, "Saga in Steel and Concrete" (1947), p. 379.
Contents- Correspondence and blue prints
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Georg Under Vestlesen papers, 1955-1971
Data concerning a Norwegian-born engineer and shipbuilder who came to the United States in 1916. In 1943 he joined the U. S. Navy with the rank of commander and was assigned to Special Forces Headquarters in London to work with the Norwegian resistance movement. After the war he became an executive in both the Norwegian America Line and the Scandinavian Airline System. Shortly before his death he established the Vetlesen Foundation at Columbia University, which provided for the Vetlesen Prize, to be awarded "for outstanding achievement in the sciences resulting in a clearer understanding of our earth...." The program for the 1971 award is included in the file. -
George (Guttorm Johnson Hovden) Johnson diary, 1863-1865
The Civil War Diary of a member of the 15th Wisconsin Regiment, Company G, born in Sigdal, Norway, covering the years 1863-1865. Enlisted as George Johnson, 28 September 1861, he immediately became a Sergeant and later a Second Lieutenant. After the war he married Ragne Snersrud and lived on a farm near Ridgeway, Iowa. The diary was translated by Norma Johnson Jordahl and edited by O. M. Hovde in 1971. The original diary is in the Luther College Library at Decorah, Iowa. -
George C. Petersen collection, undated
Includes photographs and documents from Petersen's life.
Formerly part of P539. -
George E. Hafstad papers, 1909-1980
Letters, clippings, speeches of a plant pathologist of the Wisconsin State Department of Agriculture, who was involved with efforts to preserve the American elm tree. In his retirement Mr. Hafstad came across a hand-written copy of "Sinklars Visen," of which he made a translation. Both the hand-written copy and the translation are in the collection.
Includes:- Stock certificate of The Duluth-Vermillion Mining Company (1910).
- Letters from Hafstad's mother when he was in Monrovia, Liberia (1934-1935); a collection of 40 illustrated picture post cards (1909-1915).
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George Neumann papers, circa 1910
Written stories, poems, and plays of George Neumann. Neumann was born in 1859 in Trondhjem, Norway. His parents John and Gurine Jorgendatter were from Lesje, Norway. He was confirmed at the age of 14. He then worked in a rope factory, and later carried bricks to help build a church in Trondhjem. At the age of 15 he went to sea. He sailed first as a second cook on a steamboat named "Michael Krohn." Later as a cook on a steamer belonging to Trondhjem, named "Vidar." Next he sailed as a steward on a Bark from Trondhjem named "Einar." On the "Einar" he made two trips to Buenos Aires, Argentina, it took 18 months.
He then left Trondhjem as an able seaman on a bark from Tvedestrand for Arendal. From there he sailed on a Brig the "Thela" for Brunswick, Georgia in America. There he deserted together with the ships carpenter. He was about 18 years old. They hid in pinewoods over a week without much food and waited for the vessel to sail. He stayed on the coast for some time, sailing to the West Indies and Rio de Janeiro.
He then went to Chicago in February of 1882. He sailed the Great Lakes for 7 years as a sailor and mate. He met Lina (Caroline) Nelson and they were married December 15, 1883. He became a citizen in 1884 and quit sailing. He began to learn plate printing at William Freund and Sons in 1888. He learned quickly and was a foreman in 1892. He enjoyed writing stores and poems. Won a few prizes and had many published in the "Skandinaven" a Norwegian newspaper in Chicago. He and Lina had four children: Henry, Agnes, Mrytle, and Ralph. He died in September 22, 1929.
Stories included in the collection:
The Magic Table
Mr. Gorman-Prospector (1911)
Frank Jollyboy
The Uppedal Mystery
Be Good to Everybody and Everything
The Boy and The Wonderful Dog
Longhorn
The Boy Who Rescued the Six Princesses
Then She Awoke
The Two Brothers
Mr. Stillman's Coup (1910)
The Boy and the Curious Fish
The Dawn of Day
A Brave Little Girl
Peter Mellin
A Little Girl Shall Lead Them
On the Brink of the Abyss
Seeing the Brownies at Work
Kaja
The Boy Who Became A Grouse
The Hulder That Ran Away From Her Cattle
The Man Who Heard Things
The Hudler Who Spoke English
A Saeter Girl's Experience with Hudler
Ola and the Hulder
The Girl Who Did the Right Thing
A Hudler Story
Tears and Smiles
It Pays to be Good
The Boy Who Did Not Believe In The Forest-dwarf
The Three Boys Who Battled The Trolls
Cupids Pranks: A One Act Play
Innocence
Harry's Vindication
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George Norstrom history of Quatsino Colony, 1935
"History of Quatsino Colony," by George Norstrom.
Typed copy of a handwritten manuscript sent to Tulla Kahl Froyen (South Haven, MN) through the courtesy of Perrie McGhee of Quatsino on Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada. The manuscript was written circa 1935. The spelling and punctuation are George's.
Nordstrom was the son of Christian Nordstrom, who was the first homesteader west of the Missouri river in North Dakota in 1874, near Mandan. Nordstrom was with a group of 35 from North Dakota who homesteaded in 1894 at Quatsino, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. -
George O. Fossen family history, undated
No description available.
Formerly part of P539. -
George Tobias Flom articles, 1907-1949
Offprints of 42 articles and reviews published in The Journal of English and German Philology and other journals by a distinguished Norwegian-American philologist.
BOX 1:
- Folder: Clippings and biography.
- "The Lay of Thrym, or the Fetching of Thor's Hammer" from the Journal of American Folk-Lore volume XX, number LXXIX.
- "Place-Name Tests of Racial Mixture In Northern England" from Modern Language Notes.
- "On the Phononlgy of English Loan-words in the Norwegian Dialects of Koshkonong in Wisconsin."
"Alliteration and Variation in Old Germanic Name-Giving" from the Modern Language Club; January 20, 1934. - "Anglo-Norman Script and the Script of Twelfth-Century MSS in North-Western Norway" from Studies in English Philology.
Review on "The Place-Names of Cumberland and Westmorland" from Modern Language Notes. - "A History of Scandinavian Studies in American Universities" from Iowa Studies in Language and Literature number II; May 1907.
- "Old-Lore" from Modern Language Notes volume xxiii, number 6; June 1908.
- "The Noun Stems in the Didrekssaga" from The Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume IX, number 1; 1910.
- "The Scope of the Post-Positive Article in Olafs Saga Hins Helga" from The Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume IX, number 2; 1910.
- "Fragment RA.58 C. of Konongs Skuggsja: from an Old Norwegian Parchment Codex of the XIIIth Century, with Heliotype Copy and a Study of the Paleography and the Language" from The University Studies volume IV, number 2; March 1911.
- "Det norske sprogs bruk og utvikling i Amerika" from Nordmands Forbundet; May 1912.
- "The Phonologt of the Dialect of Aurland, Norway" from University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature volume 1, numbers 1 and 2; February-May 1915.
- "Scandinavian Studies: Presented to George T. Flom by Colleagues and Friends" containing a biography of George T. Flom.
- "Mål og Minne 1946"
"Et Norsk Hedersskrift I Amerika" from University of Illinois Press; 1942.
Review of "Ortnamnen I Göteborgs Och Bohus Län. IV. Ortnamnen I V. Hisings Härad. Göteborg, 1936" from Journal of English and Germanic Philology; January 1940. - Review of "Det Norske Landnåm på man (Marstrander)" from Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XXXVII, number 2; April 1938.
- Review of "Der Einfluss des Nördlichen Dialektes im Mittelenglischen auf die Entstehende Hochsprache" by Agnes Peitz and "Lingustica. Selected Papers in English, French, and German" by Otto Jespersen, both from Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XXXIII, number 3; July 1934.
- "The Edinburgh Fragment of the Old Norwegian General Law of King Magnus IV" from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XXXII, number 2; April 1933.
- "A Note on Semantic Borrowing in Old Saxon" by H. V. Velten, from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XXX, number 4; October 1931.
- "The Use of Small Capitals in Medial and Final Position in the Earliest Old Norwegian Manuscripts"; January 20, 1934.
- "The Study of Place-Names, with special reference to Norway" from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XXIII, number 2; April 1924.
- "Spirits, Black Elves, Fairies, and Giants in the Folklore of Aurland in Sogn, Norway" from the Journal of American Folklore; January-March 1949.
- "English Loanwords in American Norwegian: as spoken in the Koshkonong Settlement, Wisconsin" from American Speech volume I, number 10; July 1926.
- Review of "Egils saga Skallagrímssonar, nebst den grösseren Gedichten Egils" by Finnur Jónsson from Modern Philology volume XXIV, number 3; February 1927.
- "Breaking in Old Norse and Old English: with Special Reference to the Relations between them" from Language volume 13, number 2; April-June 1937.
- Review of "Norsk Rimsmålsordbok. Utarbeidet av Trygve Knudsen og Alf Sommerfelt" from The American Journal of Philology volume LVI, number 3;
- "Survey of the Study; Relation to Other Sciences; Major Problems of the Present." from Scandinavian Philology; January 20, 1934.
- "Studies in Scandinavian Paleography" from Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XVI, number 3; July 1917.
- "On the Phonology of English Loan-words in the Norwegian Dialects of Koshkonong in Wisconsin"; January 20, 1934.
- "Studies in Scandinavian Paleography" from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology; 1915.
"Old Norse Fránn, 'Gleaming', Orkedalen Dial. Fræna, 'to rain'. A Study in Semantics" from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XXV; 1926 (2 copies). - "Kust- och Skärgårdsnamnen I Göteborgs och Bohus län. I. Sjökortet Tjörn. Av Hjalmar Lindroth." from Modern Philology volume XXIII, number 1; August 1925.
- Reviews of "Festskrift til Amund B. Larsen paa Hans 75-Aars Fødselsdag, 15 Desember 1924." from The American Journal of Philology volume XLVII, number 1; January-March 1926.
- "English Loanwords in American Norwegian: As spoken in the Koshkonong Settlement, Wisconsin" from American Speech volume I, number 10; July 1926.
- "Some Dialect Names of Fauna and Flora in Strøm's Søndmørs Beskrivelse , I. 1762." from The Germanic Review volume I, number 3; July 1926 (3 copies).
- "Noa Words in North Sea Regions; a Chapter in Folklore and Linguistics" from the Journal of American Folk-Lore; March 1927 (2 copies).
- "The Place-Names of Lancashire" by Eilert Ekwall from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XXIV, number 2; April 1925.
- "Norwegian Surnames" from Scandinavian Studies and Notes volume V, number 4; 1918.
- "Sun-Symbols of the Tomb-Sculptures at Louchcrew, Ireland, Illustrated by Similar Figures in Scandinavian Rock Tracings" from American Anthropologist volume 26, number 2; April-June 1924 (2 copies).
- "Figures of Ships and the Four-Spoked Wheel in Ancient Irish Sculpture" from American Anthropologist volume 25, number 3; July-September 1923 (2 copies).
- "Tunamål Words: Dialect of Stora Tuna Parish, South Dalarne, Sweden" from Scandinavian Studies volume V, number 8; November 1919.
Review of "Historische Grammatik D"
- "Mål og Minne 1946"
- Folder: Clippings and biography.
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George Washington genealogy, 1932-1963
Clippings and pamphlets concerning the President George Washington genealogy. "Norwegian Forefathers of General George Washington" is filed as volume 12 in the Vera Joyce Fox Kvamme Papers.