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                  <text>Collection Name:
Temperance Movement papers, 1841-1962
Collection Number:
P0594
Extent:
2.6 cubic feet 6 archives boxes and 1 half archives)
Abstract:
Articles, reports, songs, stories, and pamphlets concerning the temperance movement among
Norwegian Americans. There are reports from organizations in Alberta, Canada, Minnesota,
North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, and articles by Waldemar Ager, Adolf Bredesen,
Carl E. Carlson, Theodor H. Dahl, Knut Gjerset, Paul M. Glasoe, and Gjermund Hoyme.
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Description
Journals, 1909-1916
Includes: journals published by Eidsvold Lodge, Brooklyn: "Norge:
v. 5, Nos. 1-9 (Jan.-Sept. 1909); "Folkets ven" (Sept. 1912 (dupl.
of library set); "Progress" (Jan.-Feb. 1916)
"Lyngblomsten,” 1911
"Afholds-Bladet" (Chicago), 1882 May, 1884 March, 1885 April-1888
May
Afholdsreformen, 1849
v.1, Nos. 28-37 (Sept. 14-Dec. 28, 1911).
"Templar-Bladet" (Milwaukee/Calumet), 1891, 1901-1902
v. 1, no. 6 (Oct. 1900); v. 2, nos. 3-5, 7-9 (Jan. -March, May-July
1901); v. 3, nos. 3-5 (Jan.-March 1902); "Templer-Bladet
(Chicago) v. 4, no. 11 (Oct. 1891-Aug. 1891)
"Fram," 1911
Stavanger Totalavholdsforening: Festskrift, 1909
Photocopy.
Includes publications from Scandinavian countries and U.S. publications
with no Scandinavian-American connection
Titles such as: "The Saloon Must Go" (Chicago, 1909); "College
Education in Alcohol Problems," by Raymond E. Mendenhall
(Washington, D.C., n.d.); "John Barleycron, Esquire," by John
Nuveen, Jr., (Chicago Literary club, 1942); "John Barleycorn,
Public Enemy Number 1," by Roy L. Smith (Los Angeles, 1934);
"Alcohol Science and Society, " by Harry S. Warner (lecture
delivered at Yale Univ., summer session, 1944); "Alcohol Reaction

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at Yale," by Ernest Gordon (1946); "Alcohol and Tobacco in
Relation to Race Deterioration," by Anthony Zeleny (1940); "Our
Constitution and the Liquor Traffic," by Asa G. Briggs (1933); "A
Summary of 'Religion and Drink,'" by Rev. E.A. Wasson (n.d.); and
"Catechism for Little Water-Drinkers," by Julia Colman (1896)
“Trediveaarskrigen mod Drikkeondet, 1922
Owned by O.E. Rølvaag.
“Det Fjerde Aarmode…,” 1891
Reports of Organizations, 1879-1916
Includes: Alberta Temperance and Moral Reform League.
Constitution, 1916. 3 p., mimeographed. Nationale
Afholdsforbund. Reports of the 1-9,11-13th meetings
(1907-14,1916-18) Illinois Norske Goodtemplars historie med
jubileums adressebog og kalender, 1879-1909. 109 p., Festskrift
vid Illinois Skandinaviska Storloge, 1907-1927.48p. Minnesota
Total Afholdsselskab. Reports of the 8-18,20-34th meetings
(1893-1903, 1905-1919). (9th is bound with the Wisconsin reports
below). Festskrift utgivet av Minnesota Skandinaviske Storloge:
Report of the 12th meeting, 1902; Tillægslove, 1914; Minneskrift
1891-1911; "1891-1941: in commemoration of the 50th anniversa
Minneapolis: Festskrift (1906-1916) in anledning loge "St. Olav"
North Dakota Total-Afholdsselskab. Konstitution (1897) and
reports of the 5,9, 11-13 and 22nd meetings
(1901,1905,1907-09,1918) Pacific Kystens Total Afholds-Forbund.
Report of the 1910 meeting Syd Dakota Skandinavian
Totalafholdsselskab. Konstitution (1897) and reports of 5-9th
meetings (1898-1902) Information about Norrøna Lodge no.11,
Geneva, Illinois, Central States Regional Council: 1986. 44 p.
Wisconsin Totalafholdsselskab. Konstitution og bilove, and reports
of the 4-12,14-17th meetings (1891-99,1901-1905) (The 4-5th
reports are in the Trtinsdal scrapbook in box 3; the 9th report was
published with the 10th report of the Minnesota society.) Coon
Prairie Afholdsforenings 20 aars fest, 1906. 16 p. Typescript notes
(2 p.) about temperance societies, speakers and publications (by
O. M. Norlie?) Manuscript history (2 p.) of the Minnesota society
by O. Lokensgaard. Added: Minnesota Totalafholdsselskab aarbog
(1917, Wanamingo, Minn.)
Assorted documents and photographs, 1896-1991
Manuscript record (8 p.) of donated publications. Pamphlets and
clippings , including constitutions and handbooks of the
Goodtemplars (1 folder), Photographs of leaders in temperance
movement, group photos and pictures of individual leaders and

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their families. Donated by E. B. Ager (1991) who has supplied
identification for many of the pictures. Includes pictures of a
Cashton, Wis. society; officers of the Boston and Chicago
societies; and individual/family pictures of Gustav Eide, B. B.
Haugan, Knute Johnson, E. E. Lødbeck, Peter Myrvold, Chris
Nordby, Olaf Refsdal, Andrew S. Sather, J. J. Skørdalsvold, O. S.
Sneve, and F. L. Trønsdal. (31 photographs) added 1997: group
photograph (on postcard): IOGT St. Olav losje no.59, 1907.
Photocopies of newspaper articles. See NAHA Publication Papers
(Lady with the pen), for pamphlet by Hartvig Johnsen, "Elise
Tvede, en Norsk foregangskvinne i kampen mot alkoholen." Oslo,
Det Norske Totalavholdsselskap, 1944. 16 p.
The Spotlight, 1915-1958
“Afholdssagens historie,” 1876
“Haandbog for Afholdsvenner,” 1888
Songbooks, 1888-1904
Afholds folkets flagsong by Hagbart Erickson and Rudolph Møller
(Seattle); Sangbog for afholdsforeninger, by Theo. S. Reimestad,
Wilhelm Pettersen, and H. Askeland (Minneapolis, 1890);
Sangbog for afholdsforeninger (2d ed., 1901) by J. J. Skørdalsvold
and Wm. Ager; Kamp-melodier: afholds og prohibitionssanger
(1892) by B. B. Haugan and Theo. Reimestad;
Afholdssangeren...samlet og udgivet of afholdsvenner i
Nordvesten (4th ed., 1890); Minnesota Totalafholdsselskab
sangbog, 1, 5 Fj 7 eds.; Sange til brug ved Afholdstevnerne i Syd
Dakota (1902).Afholds-harpen, by Ole B. Olson (1898) Books:
Afholdsfolkets festskrift 1914: "Reform"s jubilnumshefte. 26 p. 320
p. 198 p. Sneve, 0. S. Sange og digte tilegnet afholdssagens
venner. 3. rakke. Eau Claire, 1904. 133 p. Scrapbook of Fredrik L.
Trødnsdal. Includes 4-5th reports of the Wisconsin society as well
as reports of the Minnesota and Wisconsin societies which are
duplicated in the collection; Liquor laws of Wisconsin (1894)
published by the I.O.G.T. of Wisconsin; Nogle of afholdsreformens
banebrydere, by Sven Aarestad ( Kristiania, 1890. 64 p.); and
newspaper clippings on the temperance movement. Pamphlets by
Israel Bergstrom, Adolph Bredesen, Carl E. Carlson, Theodor H.
Dahl, Swen Ellingson, Knut Gjerset, Paul M. Glasoe, H. H.
Hauseland, Gjermund Hoyme, Otto Lock, C. B. Oxnaes, Elias
Rachie, Johan Selnes (manuscript), W. Sihler, L.A. Stenholt. Lars
Stokke, Martin 0. Sumstad, Bernt C. Swenson, Thorvild K.
Thorvildson, Nils Ylvisaker and John Haugvalstad
Total Abstinence Congress record book, 1896-1900

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