https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/files/original/ab12bdade1613f8d1f639e25816561ed.pdf 733c86664dfb4059713cbc4636255040 Dublin Core 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/. Title A name given to the resource Finding aid to the Norway-America letters, 1874-1993 PDF Text Text Collection Name: Norway-America letters, 1874-1993 Collection Number: P1685 Extent: 0.8 cubic feet (2 archives boxes) Abstract: Original, typescript, and photocopies of letters written by Norwegians to relatives and friends in America. Box 1 Folder Description Includes: Letters collected by Tommy Fossum (copied 1995) from Sunndal to America: From Gunder O. Hjelle to L.O. Hjelle (1877, 1883), From Ingrid & Ole G. Jenstad to L.O. Hjelle (1882), from Eli G. Hjelle to L.O. Hjelle (1883), from Ole E.G. Gjøra to L.O. Hjelle, from Ingrid Hjelle to L.O. Hjelle (1884), from Margit K. Svoronøyen (I.G.) to Kristoffer Svisdal (1895), from Margit K. Svoronøyen (I.G.) to Anders Larsen (1895), from John L. Bjørbekk to L.O. Hjelle (1916), from Ole Solheim to L.O. Hjelle (1916), from Erik Jenstad to 1 Laura Wennevold (1946, 1948) Includes: Letters from Hans Engen, Frank Hansen of Duluth, MN, Belle Strangeland, and [great grandfather S. Strangeland] 2 (1881-1907); Includes: letter from Myrvold farm to Mrs. E.J. Erickson of Eau 3 Claire, Wis. (ca. 1919) 1 Gloria Vatne Collection. Includes letter to Severin Vatne, Ihlen, MN from brother, Sven in Stavanger, Norway; Letter to S. Vatne from father, Simund (Simon) Vatne. The family farmed at Foss-Vatne near Sandnes.; letter to S. Vatne from his brother, Martin who lived at Foss-Vatne, Sandnes, Norway; letter to Henry Wilson (Weltzin) from his father, Joachim Frederick Weltzin. Joachim, his wife and children immigrated to Iowa in 1870 but he could not adjust to life in America and returned to Etne, Norway, a few years later. Letters sent to Henry Wilson were shared with his siblings (Betsey Wilson Teig, Jacob Wilson, and Julia Wilson Vatne.; letter 4 to Henry Wilson (Weltzin) to inform him of the death of his father, 1 1 Date Range 1877 1948 1881 1907 1919 1919 1901 1905 �1 1 1 1 1 1 Joachim Frederick Weltzin; letter to S. Vatne from a friend in Norway. Molly Aasten Collection. Letters from family members (father's 5 family) in Telemarken, Boden, Oslo and Dramen. Molly Aasten Collection. Letters from family members (mother's 6 side) in Nesttun, Norway and Canada Molly Aasten Collection. Letters from family members (general 7 correspondence) Newman Nelson collected letter (1910); Annette M. Petersen 8 collected letters of Christian Christofersen Opsahl (1874-1899) Dorothy Sohn collected letters (72 letters). The letters were written to Dorothy's grandmother (Tella Haugen) after she 9 immigrated to America in 1900. 1 10 Ole R. Haaland (Clarkfield, Minnesota) letters. Ethel Olson Dahler collected letters. Letters sent to family member 11 in Idaho Territory. 1 (Sella, Seselja, Cecilia) Haugen Brekke collected letters (70 letters). Parents Marita Haugen & Ivar Auro. She left Granvin, Norway and immigrated to America in 1899. Cecelia lived and worked in Minneapolis until her marriage to Severt Brekee (Oct. 15, 1904). She spent the rest of her life on a farm near Hartland, Minnesota where she and her husband reared 8 children. Letters, dating from 1900-1919, were written to her from Norway by family and friends. She died from cancer on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 23, 1931. 12 Letters translated. Copied photographs included. 1 1 1 (added Dec. 18, 2008) from Johan P. Sunde, Christiania, Norway to parents (Dec. 8, 1875), translated by Karl J.B. Schultz, edited by Rolf Erickson (1981); and letter from Thorstein Bryne, Stavanger, to Johan P. Sunde (Jan. 26, 1893), translated by Karl J.B. Schultz, 12 edited by Rolf Erickson (1981) (added Dec. 18, 2008): 20+ letters written mainly by family 14 members in Norway to Berit Easted of Orchard, Iowa. (added Dec. 18, 2008): Photocopies of 19 letters, most of them sent from father in Mo i Rana, Norway to son, John Rufsvold 13 (1897-1949) of Buffalo, Harding County, South Dakota. 1939 1993 1945 1946 1945 1992 1874 1910 1900 1919 1896 1936 1898 1899 1900 1919 1875 1893 1917 1952 1938 1947 �1 (added Dec. 19, 2008): Three letters donated and translated by Alice Toebaas (1) letter dated 1878: Barbro Halvorsen writing to brother-in-law, Cornelius Halvorson, to say that his mother has died.; (2) letter dated 1887: written in Chicago, probably to Malena Torbjornsen Nygaard (who had recently immigrated) and was probably living either in Calamus, Iowa or Chicago; (3) letter dated 1896 sent to Malena from Stavanger (author's relationship 15 unknown). 1878 1896 1889 1905 1947 1992 1945 1952 1 (added Dec. 19, 2008): 20+ photocopied letters and documents donated and translated by Alice A. Trask. Collection of letters written from (Trondheim) Trondjem, Norway to America from 1889-1905. Letters sent to Pedar Ludvig Pedersen and Olga 16 Therese Pedersen in Chicago, Illinois. (added Dec. 19, 2008): 70+ letters donated by Arthur F. and Delma 17 Peterson, Elmhurst, Illinois. Lindblad family letters. Two letters: From Olaf and Ruth Lindblad, Larvik, Norway to Karen and Ole Benestad, Chicago, Illinois (1945); from Anders H. Lindland, Tvedestrand, Norway to Karen Benestad, 18 Chicago, Illinois (1952). 1 Morterude Letter Collection. Forty-nine letters (dating from 19 1930-1945) sent to Bernt and Ida B. Morterude, Chicago, Illinois. 1930 1945 1 Added Dec. 10, 2014: 100 original letters (1905-1950s) sent to Martha Elena Johannessen Hoversten (1886-1984) from family and friends in the Bjorhiem, Norway. She immigrated in 1901 and later married Elias Hoversten (1879-1954) on June 29, 1904. The couple farmed in Emmetsburg, Iowa. In 1914, they moved to Island Lake Township near Lynd, Minnesota. Collection includes a number of vintage calling cards and several hair locks belonging to child, 20 Chester Hoversten 1905 1950 1 1 �2 Added Jan. 15, 2015: 143 original letters (1875-1927) sent to a Trail County, North Dakota, resident, Iver Nelson Strand (1856-1939), from family and friends in the Sparbu, Norway, area. See Janet M. Madson’s 1994 book, And There Were Eight: Story of the Strand Family. Correspondents include: Anna Bergitte Kristofersen Strand, Iver Moen (friend), Lovise Nilsen (sister), Nicolai & Josef Nilsen (brothers), Anton Andreason Overstad, Iver Nilsen (cousin), Nils Jakobsen (father), Oline Vaalen, Teodor Vaalin, Teodor Røkke, Ingeborganna Aksnes, Andreas Overstad, Ole Overstad, Ole Edvard Heie, Andrew N. Overgaard, N.P. Lindstrøm, John Sætterstrum and Iver Nelsen Strand. Collection includes wooden box and a collection of bus tokens (Minneapolis St. Ry. Co., St Paul City RY Co., Northern Transit Co., Fargo, North Dakota and Duluth-Superior Transit Co.) 1875 1927 1948 1948 1 (Loose, in front of box) Notebook, inventory on known / existing letters within NAHA collection. Starting with P0001, ending with P0574 Box 3 folder 7. (n.d.) 1948 1948 1 Added August 2, 2017: Two photocopied letters (with translations) sent from Karen Tobia Klausdatter Amdal, Stavanger, Norway, to her son, Olaf Amdal, Badger, Iowa. She asks for money to buy a pair of glasses and a cotton dress "because I get nothing from your 22 father." 1929 1930 1 Added August 11, 2016: three letters (with translations) sent from Anna Berntsen, Kamperhaug, Telemark, Norway, to her cousin 22 Mrs. O.A. Jacobsen (Anna), Willmar, Minnesota, ca. 1948. � Dublin Core 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/. Title A name given to the resource Archival Collection Dublin Core 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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context P1685 Title A name given to the resource Norway-America letters, 1874-1993 Description An account of the resource Original, typescript, and photocopies of letters written by Norwegians to relatives and friends in America. Location: 13/C/5-13/C/6 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1874-1993 Extent The size or duration of the resource. 1.6 cubic feet (1 archives box) Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence