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Harry Burton Hanson papers, 1884-1963
Genealogical information, a photograph, and clippings describing the work of a Norwegian American who was the chief engineer for the Ford Motor Company and the designer of the Willow Run bomber plant near Detroit, Michigan. -
Harry Gilbertson papers, 1876-1881
Gilbertson's family immigrated in 1848 from Vang, Valdres (Naeseth v. 3, 1848:256-257; Robert A. Bjerke, Manitowoc-skogen (1994), p. 78)
Diary, 1876-1881. 1 volume. Typed transcription of diary of a farmer (Norwegian name: Helge Gulbrandsen) who lived near Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Many entries are brief notations about weather and work, but others record deaths of five family members. A final comment: "In it is recorded the saddest years of our existence." -
Harry H. Anderson articles and clippings, 1954-1980
Articles by the executive director of the Milwaukee County Historical Society, all published in "Historical Messenger of the Milwaukee County Historical Society" and "Milwaukee History," March 1969-Spring 1980 (complete issues). One folder of clippings about Norwegians in Wisconsin from the files of the Historical Society.
Includes:- Early Scandinavian Immigration in Milwaukee" (March 1969); "Gustaf Unonius and the Episcopal Mission to the Scandinavians" (June 1970); "Scandinavian Immigration in Milwaukee Naturalization Records" (Spring and Summer 1978); "Norwegian Shipbuilding in Early Milwaukee" (Autumn and Winter 1978); "Fiction as History: Local Novelists Depict the Local Heritage" (Spring 1980).
- Clippings about Norwegians in Wisconsin, from the files of the Milwaukee County Historical Society (1954-1978).
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Harry J. Williams papers, 1982-1992
An article in the "Chicago Tribune" about contrasts in two suburbs. Williams, a retired vice president of the Wilson Food Corporation, is pictured as typical of the residents of Kenilworth, Chicago's wealthiest suburb. Other photographs show Williams with prominent Norwegians in Chicago. A biographical questionnaire with a photograph and a memorial service program (1992) is included.
Williams was a long-standing member of the NAHA Board of Directors and that organization's promoter and benefactor. -
Harry Rudolph Tosdal biography, undated
Biographical notes concerning a professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. -
Harry Sunnstad interview, 1995 May 14
In this series of interviews by Odd Lovoll for his books “The Promise of America: History of the Norwegian-American People” and “The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today." Celeste Holm was an American stage, film and television actress. Holm won an Academy Award for her performance in Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement, and was nominated for her roles in Come to the Stable and All About Eve Unprocessed This item is currently restricted. -
Harry T. Cleven translation, 1995
The Fifteenth Wisconsin, an English version of Kristofer Janson's Femtende Wisconsin, a novel published in Copenhagen in 1887. Cleven served as minister of the American Lutheran Church in Oslo for many years. -
Harstad family history, 1930, 1977
"A Brief History of Valle, Saetersdal, Norway and of Some Families from There" and "A Brief Record of the Lives of the Reverend & Mrs. Bjug Harstad and Their Decendants" by Adolf M. Harstad -
Harstad family history, undated
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Formerly part of P539. -
Harstad/Fjeldstad/Kjos family papers, 1889-1984
Records of the Harstad/Fjeldstad/Kjos families. Sigrid Eline Harstad Kjos was born in Arendahl, Filmore County, Minnesota on November 29, 1869. She married Andreas (Andrew) J. Kjos on December 12, 1894. Andrew Kjos died on April 13, 1908. Together they had 8 children: Joseph Gerhard Kjos (April 29, 1896); Clarence Eugene Kjos (May 17, 1899-March 26, 1936); Ellen Beatrice Kjos (August 7 1901); Neil A. Kjos (Febuary 28, 1904); Ahlfeld Silian Kjos (May 2, 1907-January 27, 1907).
Documentation, photographs, and correspondence from Ellen’s Kjos-Harstad family from Freemont County, Minnesota. Includes records on:- Bjug Harstad (Ellen’s maternal great uncle). Founder, or co-founder of many early settler churches in MN, ND and Oregon and Pacific Lutheran University.
- Kittel Harstad (Ellen’s grandfather), Very active in developing Lutheran church growth in S.E. Minnesota.
- Harstad/ Kjos family groups and individual photos.
- Carl Andreas Kjos (Ellen's father)
- Sigrid Harstad Kjos (Ellen’s mother, Kittel and Eli Harstad’s daughter, and Bjug Harstad’s niece)
- Neil Kjos Sr. (Ellen's brother). Music publishing - Chicago, IL.
- Joe Kjos (Ellen's brother). Prominent Mayville, ND banker and owner of several farms.
- Clarence Kjos (Ellen's brother). Unmarried/no children, prominent Portland, OR doctor who died very suddenly at 39. His mother, Sigrid, was living with him at the time.
- Early church materials from Minnesota and Mayville, ND: Gran Lutheran Church, North Prairie Lutheran Congregation, Mayville Congregation, Greenfield Evangelical Lutheran Church.
- Harstad family in Norway.
- Photographs and records of the Fjelstad family.