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Ingrid Semmingsen papers, 1972-1996

Title
Ingrid Semmingsen papers, 1972-1996
Identifier
P0614
Date
1972-1996
Description
Citation for an honorary degree, Dr. of Letters, St. Olaf College (1974), prepared by Kenneth O. Bjork; a review of Gudrun Hovde Gvåle's biography of Rølvaag and "A Shipload of German Emigrants and their Significance for the Norwegian Emigration of 1825"; "Etnisk historie i America," from "Heimen," no. 3, 1983; "Uppsalagruppen," a manuscript; "Til minne om Ingrid Semmingsen," by Sivert Langholm, in "Historisk tidsskrift," no. 3, 1996; and a collection of clippings. Dr. Semmingsen was professor of American history at the University of Oslo, specializing in the Norwegian migration to America.

Contents: 
  • Articles
    • Includes: Drøm og daad; utvandringen til Amerika. (Aschehoug, 1975) (another copy in library) "Amerika brev": talk given in Madison, sometime after 1975. Treats the "Lee letters, 115 in all ...1857-1925. The bulk of them date from the late seventies and onwards by two generations of emigrants" who emigrated from Hedalen, Valdres to Dane County., Wisconsin 19 p., photocopy of typescript and manuscript, with many manuscript revisions and insertions. Probably see America letters by Ole Andersen Lee, Mikkel Andersen Lee in America Letters collection. "Women in Norwegian emigration." 28 p. typescript, photocopy. "Peder Anderson of Bergen and Lowell: artist and ambassador of culture," by Eva L. Haugen and Ingrid Semmingsen. (American Norvegica IV, 29 p.) "Noen brevglimt av norske kvinners liv i Amerika" (By og bygd, v.30, 1985) pp. 209-214. "Nordic research into emigration" (Scand. J. Hist., 3:107-129, 1978) "Norwegian emigration in the nineteenth century" (Scand. Econ. Hist. Rev., viii no.2, pp.150-160. "Emigration from Scandinavia (Scand. Econ. Hist. Rev., xx no.1,1972, pp.45-60. "De tyske emigranter i Bergen, 1817-18 " (Bergens Historiske Forenings Skrifter, 77/76, 1976, pp.120-138. "A unique collection of America-letters in Norway" (Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, July 1984, pp.316-321. See also her article, "Family emigration from Bergen, 1874-92; some preliminary results of a statistical study" in Americana norvegica, vol. III (E.Haugen festskrift) E193.A6 v.3 (pp.28-63) 'LT7i. "Det norske Amerika: i fortid og naatid" (Kirke og Kultur,21, pp.321-345)
  • Uppsalagruppen, 1996
  • Conference papers--"The Lee Letters," undated
  • "Women in Norwegian Emigration," undated
Location: 7/B/3
Extent
4 folders
Type
Clippings
Diplomas
Manuscripts

Collection

Archival Collection

Citation

Semmingsen, Ingrid, 1910-1995, “Ingrid Semmingsen papers, 1972-1996,” Norwegian American Historical Association, accessed October 17, 2026, https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/items/show/10196.