<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<item xmlns="http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5" itemId="10616" public="1" featured="0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5 http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5/omeka-xml-5-0.xsd" uri="https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/items/show/10616?output=omeka-xml" accessDate="2026-10-17T10:11:09+00:00">
  <fileContainer>
    <file fileId="1073">
      <src>https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/files/original/8752b062115987d5f5f94470b88b107d.pdf</src>
      <authentication>59783b238586e50ff53a96cf7c5b4ae8</authentication>
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="124865">
                  <text>Finding aid to the America-America letters, 1862-1998</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
        <elementSet elementSetId="5">
          <name>PDF Text</name>
          <description/>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="93">
              <name>Text</name>
              <description/>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="144700">
                  <text>Collection Name:
America-America letters, 1862-1998
Collection Number:
P1684
Extent:
1.2 cubic feet (3 archives boxes)
Abstract:
Original, typescript, and photocopies of letters written by Norwegians immigrants to relatives
and friends in America.
Box

Date

Range

1
1

Folder Description
Includes: Letters to Sven Olsen Skrattergaard in McGregor, Iowa
1 from Tosten Hoff.
3 Includes: Assorted letters.

1862
1884

1864
1931

1

Includes: Letters to Mrs. A.P. Hanson (Oliana), operated Hanson
2 House, Albert Lea, MN. Some of the letters are from Norway.

1869

1998

1887

1901

1

4 Includes: Conrad and Swanhild Thompson collected letters.
Includes: Ernest Sylte collected postcards. Includes photocopies of
5 45 cards.

1908

1918

1

6 Includes: Ernest Sylte collected letters: Edwin Sylte.

1907

1908

1

7 Includes: Ernest Sylte collected letters: Gunder Sylte
Includes: Ernest Sylte collected letters: Skindrud postcards
(1910-1915); letters to the Skindruds (1926-1930); Skindrud
8 photographs (photocopies)
Includes: Ernest Sylte collected letters: Annette Sylte Olson letter
9 to Emily Skindrud

1908

1908

1910

1930

1954

1954

1910

1966

1910

1928

1919

1919

1

1
1

1
1
1

Includes: Ernest Sylte collected letters: From Inger Skindrud to the
10 Skindruds (1929-1966); letters to Ingrer Skindrud (1910-1931)
Includes: Ernest Sylte collected letters: To Ole Skindrud from
11 Skindrud and Sylte family members.
Includes: Ernest Sylte collected letters: Casper Sylte to Inger
12 Skindrud

�1

13

1

15

1

14

1

16

1

17

Includes: Ernest Sylte collected letters: from Casper Sylte to
various friends and relatives; letters to Casper Sylte
Includes: Ernest Sylte collected letters: from Anna Potter to
relatives
Includes: Ernest Sylte collected letters: from Nora Twedt to
relatives
Includes: Ernest Sylte collected letters: from Minnie Sylte to
relatives
Includes: Lawrence Storbo collected letter (Ole PedersonKulberg
from Roros, Norway. Letter itself, written in 1912, extolls the
virtues of the Pacific Northwest and encourages the writer's son to
emigrate.

1908

1938

1907

1930

1930

1937

1907

1944

1912

1912

1

(added Dec. 18, 2008): 20+ letters, all in Norwegian, most of them
sent form Iver H. Lahren, postmarked, Walcott, North Dakota or
Hawley, Minnesota, to his sister, Miss Louise Lahren, Ft. Ransom,
18 North Dakota.

1908

1912

1

(added Oct. 26, 2012): Lundh Family Letters (x4, 1900-1907). Most
of the letters, written by Wilhelma (Caroline Wilhelmina), wife of
Carl Johan (Charles), deal with the families of three brothers:
Hjalmar, Carl and Georg(e), and some of the children of Niels
Lauritz Lundh (one of the letter writers). Includes a business card
for Conrad Haas, 366 Wabasha St., St. Paul, Minn.; a Wisconsin
19 infantry insignia pin (28th infantry, Company G).

1900

1907

1879

1922

2 1-5

(added Oct. 29, 2012): 119+ letters (1879-1922, translated by
Donald L. Berg). Correspondents include: J.B. Baxter, N.O. Bruvold,
Ole T. Gronli, Knut Haugebu, Halvor A. Harthold, Tollef Olsen Jeitil,
Mrs. Sakarias Lofthus, Mrs. Wm. McQuigg H.O. Rue, H.
Strangeland, Knut Strangeland, Tollef Svennungson, P. Thovson, L.
Torresdal, S. Tovson, Ole Knutson Vindlos, and T.S. Windless.
Correspondent locations include: Red River Valley; Trysil, Cass Co.;
Dakota Territory; Peterson, Minn.; Lake Mills, Iowa; Perley, Norman
Co., Minn.; Fargo, North Dakota.; Dayton, Webster Co., Iowa;
Fergus Falls, Minn.; Northwood, North Dakota; Belleville, Grand
Forks Co., North Dakota; Twin Valley, Minn.; Platte, South Dakota;
Lisbon, North Dakota; Minot, North Dakota; Decorah, Iowa; Lime
Springs, Iowa; Elsworth, North Dakota; Palermo, North Dakota; and
Stoughton, Wisc. Donated by Donald L. Berg, NAHA member.

�2

(added Nov. 6, 2012): 9 photocopied letters written by Rev. Hans
Jakob Grogaard Krogh between 1874 and 1890 (translations
provided, original letters held at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa).
One letter provides a biography of Krogh at time of ordination
6 (1874).

1874

1890

2

Added June 27, 2016: Gunderson-Lee courtship letters
(1907-1916, 1948). Thirteen letters (in English) between Mathea
Marie Gunderson (1884-1963), Gary, Norman County, Minnesota,
and Gilbert Lee (1882-1937), Faith, Meade County, South Dakota.
7 Lee operated an implement and harness business.

1907

1948

3

Added January 26, 2016: Garberg-Trondvold courtship letters
(1910-1911). Eighty-two letters (in Norwegian) between Anna
Emilie Garberg (1880-1935), Good Thunder, Minnesota, and Louis
(Lars) Knutsen Tronvold (1886-1974), Oakes and Lisbon, North
1-6 Dakota.

1910

1911

Rokke Name Index
Hoff, Tosten
Serteberg, T. O.
Skrattegaard, Sven Olsen
Hanson, Anton P.
Hanson, Oliane
Tollefson, Anne
Aabergsmoen, Nels Pedersen
Bakken, Gunder Olsen
Thoen, Erik T.
Skogstad, Nils
Helle, Halvor G.
Helle, John H.
Field, Olaus H.
Field, Ole H.
Bakke, Fred
Anderson, Catherine
Rothe, Peter
Bakke, Nels J.

�</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </file>
  </fileContainer>
  <collection collectionId="29">
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="146885">
                <text>Archival Collection</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </collection>
  <elementSetContainer>
    <elementSet elementSetId="1">
      <name>Dublin Core</name>
      <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="43">
          <name>Identifier</name>
          <description>An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="124856">
              <text>P1684</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="50">
          <name>Title</name>
          <description>A name given to the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="124857">
              <text>America-America letters, 1862-1998</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="41">
          <name>Description</name>
          <description>An account of the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="124858">
              <text>Original, typescript, and photocopies of letters written by Norwegians immigrants to relatives and friends in America.</text>
            </elementText>
            <elementText elementTextId="145929">
              <text>Location: 13/C/5-13/C/6</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="40">
          <name>Date</name>
          <description>A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="124859">
              <text>1862-1998</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="79">
          <name>Extent</name>
          <description>The size or duration of the resource.</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="124860">
              <text>1.2 cubic feet (3 archives boxes)</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="44">
          <name>Language</name>
          <description>A language of the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="124861">
              <text>English</text>
            </elementText>
            <elementText elementTextId="124862">
              <text>Norwegian</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="51">
          <name>Type</name>
          <description>The nature or genre of the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="124863">
              <text>Correspondence</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </elementSet>
  </elementSetContainer>
</item>
