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Letters and clippings concerning Joachim G. Giaver (1856-1925), a Norwegian-born civil engineer in Chicago, who received the St. Olav Medal from King Haakon of Norway in 1921. Included in the letters is one from a relative, Ivar Giaever, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1973.
Copy of the minute book of a Chicago women's reading club (Laeseklubben Glimt) which celebrated its 80th anniversary in 1979. The book opens with a brief history of the club up to 1906. A clipping about the 80-year-old club from "Vinland" is also included.
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).
Rev. Dr. Lauritz Larsen Memorial, An Appreciation by the National Lutheran Council, April 1923. As President and Secretary of the Council Dr. Larsen went to Europe following World War I to assist in releif work. His death, shortly after his return to the United States, was attributable to the severe strain under which he had worked.
Programs of an orchestra, known in Europe as "Musikselskabet Harmonien," covering "A Special 200th Anniversary Tour of the United States, February and March, 1966."
Copy of a letter to "Dearest Julia," with title added "My Trip Across the Ocean," dated Evanston, February 24, 1915. The letter relates the author's experiences leaving Norway, crossing England, and the journey across the Atlantic on the "Northland."
A typescript of 41 pages covering reminiscences from the home in Oslo and visits to other parts of Norway at the turn of the 20th Century. The memoirs were written during the last twenty-five years of Mr. Andresen's life in the United States. He died in New York City.
Copies of articles appearing in Norwegian newspapers. Mr Finstad, a third generation Norwegian-American, a graduate of St. Olaf College, 1956, taught at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.