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Halfdan Bendeke (Bendecke) photo albums and clipping scrapbooks, 1869-1915
Bendeke was born in 1869 in Trondhjem, Norway. He was a son of Lieutenant Colonel Johan Fredrik Bendeke and Else Mathilda (Due) Bendeke. His great grandfather was a member of the convention which framed the constitution of Norway in 1814. After immigrating (1889) and settling in North Dakota, Bendeke established a real estate, loan, and abstracting business. In 1898 he was appointed Norwegian-Swedish vice-consul for North Dakota. In 1905 he became Norwegian vice-consul, after the separation of Norway and Sweden. In 1911 he was decorated by the King of Norway as Knight of the Order of St. Olaf.
Includes photo albums and clipping scrapbooks, and photocopies of obituary. Albums contains family images: William and Jose Olson; Lieutenant Colonel Johan Fredrik Bendeke; group photo of boys from middleskole (Trondhjem); "Tante Dik" & Johan Frederick Knudtzen; Tante Eleanor Kehr.
Clipping scrapbook contains several political posters (Bendeke ran as a Republican for several state positions). Autograph of Captain Roald Amundsen and several letters from Amundsen to Bendeke, 1912 August 14. -
Ole Bendickson (Rudie) papers, 1881, 1978
Translation of a poetic memoir (4 typescript pages) written in 1881 by an emigrant from Slidre, Valdres, who came to Winneshiek County, Iowa, in 1857 and later moved west. The memoir is supplemented by an account of his later years written by a granddaughter. Ole and a brother enlisted in Co. D., 138th Iowa Infantry, sworn in August 20, 1862. The brother was killed June 16, 1863. Civil War. Ole moved to Winnebago Co., Iowa 1866 and died while living with a daughter near Lemmon, South Dakota.
Includes poetic memoir "Memory Song" (February 5, 1881. Translated by Mrs. Lila Evenhus; "Ole Bendickson's Later Life" (1 page typescript), written by Mrs. Lila Evenhus (1978). Topics Addressed: Single motherhood (p.1); Civil War (p.1-2); Enlistment (p.2); Vicksburg (p.2); Disease (p.2); School teaching (p.2-3); Founding a farm (p.3); Prayer (p.3-4); Sorrow (p.4); and Death (p.4). -
John D. Bengston papers, 1975-2007
Papers written for the program leading to an M. A. degree at the University of Wisconsin.
Includes:- "'Han Ola og Han Per,' language and literature in the comic strips of Peter Julius Rosendahl" by Bengston, prepared for Scandinavian 1975: Seminar in Immigrant Research, April 1977.; added January 2008: Tormod Kinnes' MA thesis, "The Humor of Han Ola og han Per taken seriously," (Trondheim, May 2007)
- "A study of lexical interference in the English of Norwegian-Americans" by Bengston (1975). "The paper is basically a survey of English as spoken by Minnesotans of Norwegian descent, pointing out influences in vocabulary from Norwegian."
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Paul Benson history, 1995
"The Empire of Song : A Panoramic History of America's Choral Kingdom," a survey of the development of choral music at the Scandinavian-American colleges in the United States, by a graduate of St. Olaf College, 1967. -
Thomas I. Benson thesis, 1968
Typescript of thesis entitled "The Norwegians in California, 1850-1900: A Preliminary Survey" submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in history in the College of the Holy Names, May 1968. The author was a teacher in the public schools of Oakland, California. -
Anders T. Berg correspondence, 1888-1894
Letters to a Norwegian-born farmer at Sunburgh, Minnesota. Correspondents include Thorstein Berg, Johannes Halvorson, Bjug A. Harstad, T. T. Kopseng, T. P. Satner, and Johannes Tingelstad. All in Norwegian. -
Arthur A. Berg letter, 1884
Copy of a letter written by a student at St. Olaf College who had come as an immigrant from North Odal, Norway, to Fergus Falls, Minnesota, in 1880 at age sixteen. -
Slektningene: Etta Marine Hokenstad Berge, 1995
Includes a 7 typescript autobiography (1995)and transcript of diary of her first year of marriage near Garretson, SouthDakota (1933-1934). -
Gulbrand Olsen Berge papers, 1886
Copy of "The Autobiography of Gulbrand O. Berge, 1827-1886." Born in Valdres, Norway, Berge emigrated in 1849 and settled near Manitowoc, Wisconsin. He served in the 37th Wisconsin Regiment during the Civil War. These memoirs were published in Decorah-Posten in 1932, August 9 and 16. See also Ole Olsen Berge Papers, P 35. -
Knut Eilevson Berge (Bergh) poems, circa 1857
Manuscript volume of 4 poems about immigration to America. Bergh was a teacher at Luther College, 1868-1872. Born in Voss to Ellef Storksen Berge, he emigrated in 1857 and taught in Liberty Prairie, Wisconsin and Big Canoe, Iowa. Representative in Iowa legislature, 1872. Poems in Norwegian.
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Knut E. Berge (Bergh) Poems. Mimeographed copies. Manuscript volume of 4 poems.