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Papers relating to general ethnic studies and studies of specific ethnicities.
Includes:
Ethnic and minority studies reports from the University of Wisconsin System (1972-1973); The Novak Report on the New Ethnicity (1979); Other miscellaneous letters and reports.
The Balch Institute: Historical Reading Lists (Immigration and Ethnicity, Irish, Swiss, French, Ukranian, Portugese, South Slavs; 1974-1975); "New Dimensions" newsletter (1980-1991).
Newsletters: Minnesota Humanities Commission (1975-1991), National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs (1981-1985), The National Ethnic Studies Assembly (1974-1975), Wayne State University Ethnic Studies (1986-1988). Norwegian Source Materials, Ethnic Studies, prepared by Kenneth O. Bjork for a 1973 symposium.
Nils Olsen was connected with the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1925-1935. Prepared by James T. Steensvaag, Iowa State University Library (10 February 1971). Includes a biographical note.
Papers and album about the training ship "Slandet" which made an expedition to Chicago in 1933 as a feature of the "Century of Progress" exposition. Magnus Andersen had brought the Viking ship across the Atlantic to the Chicago Exposition in 1893.
Includes:
Leatherbound Album containing photographs regarding "Sørlandet" and the Norwegian Merchant Fleet (1933).
Clippings, programs, and a copy of "The Viking March" (1933); "70 Years in Retrospect: On My Work on Sea and Land" by Magnus Andersen (1932).
Anniversary booklet giving the history of a worker's organization in Chicago, earlier known as Branch number 1, Karl Marx, associated with the American Socialist Party. This group had its own meeting place called "Folkets Hus." Program from "Ten Year Anniversary Festival with Bazaar" (1928); Group photograph.
Papers concerning a Norwegian-born Chicago clubwoman. Mrs. Petersen was active in Norwegian National League, President of the Federation of Norwegian Women's Societies, served on the Norse-American Centennial Committee, and promoted the idea of Leif Erikson Day. In 1940 she received the St. Olav Medal from Haakon VII of Norway.
Dr. Blegen was editor of the Norwegian American Historical Association publications, 1925-1960. The letters in this collection are those written to Mrs. Helen Katz, his assistant, usually in connection with editorial details. They are written in a bantering tone and reveal interesting aspects of Blegen's personality, and also the personality of Mrs. Katz, who added her own comments to the letters before she donated them to the archives.
Papers of a Norwegian-born author who came to America at the age of two. After 18 years in Day County, South Dakota, the family moved to Idaho. She wrote several books and a great number of short stories which were published in the Norwegian American press.
Copy of a letter from the brother of Henrik Ibsen to his father, dated 28 May 1850, at Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. He describes conditions in Wisconsin, includein items about his work as a clerk in a store, wages, expenses, outlook for farmers, Indians, and the great interest in the Gold Rush to California. He himself may have died while crossing the desert on his way to find gold in California.
After failing in business in Norway, Nikolai Ibsen, brother of Henrik Ibsen, came to the United States, finally living near Estherville where he owned 40 acres of land.
Norwegian poems by a Norwegian-born amateur poet who lived in New Jersey and New York after his emigration to the United States in 1927. He worked at various trades, eventually going into chicken farming, but kept up many other interests, chief of which was poetry. His granddaughter, Nancy Migonis, organized a selection of his poetry.