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Sjur J. Hommedahl scrapbooks, 1935-1939
- Title
- Sjur J. Hommedahl scrapbooks, 1935-1939
- Identifier
- P1680
- Date
- 1935-1939
- Creator
- Hommedahl, Sjur
- Description
- Sjur (Severt) S. Hommedahl, Cannon Falls, Minnesota, scrapbooks (1935-1939). General interest clippings which include obituaries, postcards, greetings, and local historical items. S.S. Homedahl, was the son of Torbjorn S. Hommedahl who emmigrated from Voss in 1850 and settled in Leon Township, Goodhue County.
- Scrapbook 1: clipping "Honor Memory of Pioneer Pastor. Founder of Vasa Church, born 100 years ago. [Dr. Eric Norelius]"; multiple clippings, "The Sioux Massacre" [Native American/Indian uprising] by O.O. Enestvedt; clipping "Old Timer Thinks about those Good Old Days of Yore [S. Hommedahl]" recounts youth and Red Wing…"I have seen this city only a mud hole. I have seen many farmers getting stuck with their loads in sloughs and creeks for want of bridges. They then had to carry grain sacks over their shoulder to town. Instead of using the slow walking oxen, my father, many times, preferred to walk to Red Wing and carry on his shoulder whatever he needed for the family. When he used oxen it took two days. One flour on his shoulder from Red Wing to our home which then was 24 miles from the city…I remember I went with my father to the Holden Church (B.J. Muus, pastor). We had no automobile to ride in but we took a yoke of oxen and "kubberole" (a home-made wagon of all wood and wheels sawed from a big log); clipping on "Otto Sverdrup" 1935-1939
- Scrapbook 2: several advertisement/color photo clippings of the Dionne quintuplets (ca. 1935-36); clipping "Norseman Brings Artic Circle Art to Exhibition City" [Bernt Cluver, grandson of B.J. Muus]; photo clipping of "Biggest Woman and Smallest Man in the world" [Nellie Lane & Major Mite]; photo clipping of world's smallest man [Paul Del Rio]; postcards: Fort Dodge, Iowa; Presbyterian Church, Willmar, MN; Canby, MN; New Settlers "Their first Shack in the Northwest"; clipping "Large Attendance at Midsummer Day Fete at Vasa" Lars W. Boe spoke; photo clipping of Mrs. Ellen Rolland, Roger Blakstad, Olin Rolland, Mrs. Alvin Blakstad; political ad for Sen. Henrik Shipstead; 1935-1939
- Scrapbook 3: real photo postcards: several of Garretson, South Dakota; Excelsior Geyser, Yellowstone Park; Swea Lutheran Church, Carver, MN; Sandstone, MN; Norway Beach; Government locks and high bridge, Mississippi River, MN; several of Amery, Wisc.; River Falls, Wisc.; several of Watertown, South Dakota; Rice Lake, Wisc.; Pavilion, Minnehaha Park, Minn.; Railroad scene in the Rocky Mountains; Pine Island, MN; Clayton, Wisc.; Lac Qui Parle County homecoming (1911); several of Charlie Jackson and his home; Mr. And Mrs. Nels Bjørnson; parsonage of Spring Garden; Bruno, MN; Buffalo, NY; Cannon Falls, MN; Niagara Falls; Seal Rock from Cliff House, California; Zulu Women drinking Kaffir Beer, Kimberley, Africa; Norway postcards; clipping "Holden Honors Pioneer Pastor [B.J. Muus]; 1935-1939
- Extent
- 3 folders
- Type
- Scrapbooks
Citation
Hommedahl, Sjur, “Sjur J. Hommedahl scrapbooks, 1935-1939,” Norwegian-American Historical Association, accessed September 20, 2024, https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/items/show/10612.