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Clippings, a circular, and a letter from the Norwegian-born author of "The Man with the White Horse" (1979). Leistad was a trainer of wild horses and a performer of vaudeville acts.
Translation of a journal and memoirs of an emigrant from Levold, Aal, Hallingdal, who came to Minnesota in 1866. The diary (8 p. typescript) covers the year 1874-1875 at Luther College. The memoirs (7 p. typescript) were written in 1880. Geraldine Tollefson Lillegard enlarges on these documents with her 158-page "Lillegard, His Diaries and Lineage." For additional biographical information, see O. M. Norlie's "School Calendar."
RESTRICTED: Documents of a Norwegian emigrant from Hamar, Norway, to Chicago in 1882. In 1901 Lunde established the American Industrial Company for the manufacture of piano hardware. Because of his refusal to make war materials during World War I, he lost his factory. A son, Erling Lunde, was court-martialed in 1918 for being a conscientious objector. A pamphlet covering his defense is among the papers, as is a letter from Senator Robert La Follette, 1919, and some anti-war statements from the Congressional Record, Sept.-Oct. 1939.
Includes broadside poem, "Why Boast?" (July 19, 1936)
The Norwegian Club: A History of the Club, 1904-1944, by A. N Rygg, 1944, 93 pages. (on the cover: Det Norske Selskab, New York); "The Norwegian Club, Inc. 1904-1964," edited by Erik J. Friis, 1964, 104 pages; a monthly bulletin "Norsony News," April, 1932; a Roy Jorgensen letter that gives historical information about the club; and a collection of clippings, two of which mention an older organization, "Den norske Forening."
Memorabilia and a biographical sketch of an immigrant from Raufoss, Toten, who became a famous American skier. He was captain of the U. S. Olympic Team in 1936 and was inducted into the Skiing Hall of Fame in 1963. He was later recipient of the Theodore Roosevelt Roughrider Award, the highest honor the State of North Dakota can bestow on a current or former citizen of the state. His daughter, Sonja Oimoen Afset, traveled with her parents to Norway in 1979. Her diary of the trip is included.
"'Olle i Skratthults' Nya Viser och Historier," a collection of poems and songs, compiled by a Swedish immigrant who became popular in Scandinavian communities as a singer and story-teller. "The Man who gave us Nikolina," by Maury Bernstein is an article excerpted from "Earth Journal," Spring-Summer, 1977; "Snoose Boulevard, 1973"; "Olle i Skratthults populara success, Nikolina, ord och musik"; and an English-language version of Nikolina, first popularized by Slim Jim and the Vagabond Kid and later by Anne Charlotte Harvey in the 1970s.
An account covering part of the experience of a physicist who for ten years worked with the National Aeronautic and Space Administration. He was involved in the moon landings and other exotic undertakings. Later he became the first chairman of Texas State Technical Institute's laser department at Waco, Texas. Pierson is a descendent of Ole Pederson Songe who emigrated from Trom, Norway, to Texas in 1853.
"The Old Man and the Ski," by William Oscar Johnson, which appeared in "Sports Illustrated," December, 10, 1979, concerning a Norwegian-born Canadian citizen, a "man many credit with bringing skiing as a sport to the North American continent."
An article about a World War I flying "Ace" from Twin Valley, Minnesota. He attained the rank of Brigadier General and served in the military for 42 years.