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Articles, catalogues, certificates, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, notebooks, manuscripts, temperance literature, clippings, and family histories of a Wisconsin-born educator. Hilleboe was principal of Willmar Seminary; superintendent of Benson, Minnesota, public schools; principal of the preparatory department at Luther College; and professor of education at Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Olaf Trygvason: Tidskrift for Religion og Politik, volume 1, no. 1, Chicago, February, 1883. An issue of a journal edited by H. Tambs Lyche, an engineer, Unitarian minister, and editor who came to the United States in 1880. He returned to Norway in 1892 and became editor of Kringsjaa. An article from Bergens Tidende is included. Throughout his life Tambs Lyche sought to interpret the United States to the people of Norway. An article by Paul Knaplund in volume 24 of Norwegian-American Studies is titled "H. Tambs Lyche: Propagandist for America."
A copy of "Beretning om en 3 Aars Reise i Amerikaforetagen i Aarene 1849 til 1852 iblandt de norske Emigranter i de Forenede Stater i Nord-amerika, (36 typescript pages)" an account of the author's preaching and teaching journey in Illinois and Wisconsin from 1849 to 1852.
Emigrated in 1837 to the Fox River Settlement. "Hans Valder is believed to have been the first Norwegian in America to become a member of the Baptist Church. In 1844 he was ordained a Baptist minister, and so also became the first Norwegian Baptist preacher in America." Founder of Newburg, Fillmore County, Minnesota.
Formerly part of P539.
Hans W. Ask, Redwood County, Minn., collected research notes and article by Hans Ask titled "Documented Local History, Nineteenth Century Homestead Certificate for County Land is Found" for the Redwood Gazette, 6 August 2012.
Formerly part of P539.
Vesterheim in Red, White, and Blue: The Hyphenated Norwegian-American and Regional Identity in the Pacific Northwest, 1890–1950 (Dissertation, Washington State University, 2018). 291-page unbound volume. Chapters include: “Norwegian Migrants and the Promise of a New Scandinavia”, “Race, Whiteness, and Nationalism Among Norwegian Americans”, “Seattle’s Celebration of the Norwegian Constitution Day”, “The Multorporean Birdmen and the Slat-Riders of the 1930s”, and “Marie Vognild Lund, Dorthea Dahl, and August Werner: the Art of Norwegian-American Cultural Creation.”
Letters written from Norway and from Vienna, South Dakota (Clark Co.) and Winfred, South Dakota (Lake Co.), by members of the family to relatives.
Content: Hanson Family Correspondence: Letters, Norway and So. Dak.
Names: Ingebör Hanson; Mrs. Maria Moorhead; Julia Hanson; Kari Jastad; B. Dybevig; Ole Thorstensen (Klövstadbakken); Chas. M. Langland (writing from Luther College to Mons H. Langland, his father, June 19, 1896). See in Rowberg File, articles on C.M. Langland, well known Highland township farmer ; and Martha Maria (Hanson) Moorhead (Mrs. Robert S.) born near Spring Grove 1866, related to Miner and Langeland families.