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Nina Sandström Angelsen thesis, 2005
A Hovedfag thesis submitted to the Dept. of Modern Languages at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Trondheim, November, 2005. Soft-cover, 198 pages.
Her thesis attempts to answer the question of what kind of contact or relations existed between Norwegian-Americans and Jewish-Americans in North Minneapolis and the general quality of their relationships. The author observes that the Minneapolis public schools and high school clubs and organizations were successful in bringing the greatest number of ethnically diverse groups together. -
Gleason's Pictorial, 1852 September 11
Gleason's Pictorial (September 11, 1852) which includes an article about the collision on Lake Erie between the steamer "Atlantic" and the propeller-driver "Ogdensburg." The donor, Bruce Weaver, discovered that his great-great-great grandmother, Marit Rødvang, and her family, miraculously survived the shipwreck. An article about the 1852 collision was written by Abraham Jacobson, and was featured in the 1902 issue of the Decorah Postin about Marit Rødvang and the family's harrowing journey to America. Approximately 500 people were on board the Atlantic and only 200 were rescued. Also, "Forgotten Shipwreck, Recovered Memory," by Bruce Weaver (Budstikken, May, 2006). Added Aug. 18, 2015: "Awful Calamity! The Steamship Atlantic Disaster of 1852," by Justin Wargo (Wisconsin Magazine of History, Winter 2014-2015). -
Scandinavian Academic Club, University of Minnesota, 1946-1970
First organized as the Norwegian Academic Club at the University of Minnesota, the name was changed in 1957 to include other Scandinavian students. The purpose of the club was to encourage mutual assistance and fellowship among the students in the group. -
Halvor Smedsrud letters, 1924-1933
Letters from relatives and friends in Norway to an immigrant from Heddal who came to Chicago in 1924. He was an active member of Bondeungdomslaget, Leikarringen, Heimhug, and the Chicago Norske Theater. A brief sketch from "Vinland," December, 1965, is included. -
Leola Nelson Bergmann periodicals, 1944-1969
"Scandinavian Settlement in Iowa" and "The Norwegians in Iowa" in "Palimpsest," March, 1956 and August, 1959. "The Negro in Iowa" in "Studies in Iowa History." Bergmann is the author of "Americans from Norway" (1950) and "Music Master of the Middle West" (F. Melius Christiansen), 1944. -
Louis Nyhammer papers, 1922-1950
Clippings, correspondence, and diaries of a Norwegian-born riverboat captain who held master pilot licenses on the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi rivers. His story is more fully told in "Americans from Norway" (1950), by Leola Nelson Bergmann.
Correspondence with Mrs. Leola Nelson Bergmann (1947-1950); Information from Dorothy Warren (River reporter for "St. Paul Dispatch") (1941-1947); and diaries (1922-1950) -
Olaus Jeldness biography, 1978
"Olaus Jeldness and the Birth of Skiing in the Canadian West, " by Rolf Lund, an article that appeared in "Nordic World," March, 1978. (photocopy) -
Burt Knatvold collection, 1916-1930
Papers of a foreign sales representative for the American Gas Company of Albert Lea, advertisements for his company, travel routes in Norway, a folk high school annual report, and a petition protesting a proposed highway through the Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, area. Mrs. Knatvold's grandfather, Knut Olson Hastvedt, was a prominent citizen in the Blue Mounds area.
Includes Aarsmelding fraa Vestuppland Folkehøgskule (1906-1916); couple of "Norske Reiseruter" for Valdres and Sogn and the Bergen-Oslo Railway. -
Oliver Justin Lee clippings, 1947-1978
Reports about a Norwegian American who was Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. -
Sverre Roang essay, 1974
"Søren Jaabæk—Man for His Time," a paper presented to the Ygdrasil Literary Society, Madison, Wisconsin, by Judge Roang of the Rock County Court. Roang's grandmother was a cousin of Søren Jaabæk. The collection includes biographical data about Sverre Roang. The clippings concern Jaabæk and descendents, including a translation of a poem Jaabæk wrote upon the death of a grandson in the early 1870s in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. The file includes information about Jaabæk's son Peter (1841-1916), who emigrated in 1865. See also article on Jaabæk in "Nordmands Forbundet," September, 1932.