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Paul Rood papers, 1978
List of source materials available in the State Historical Society at Madison, Wisconsin, which relate to Norwegian Americans, made by a graduate student of history at the University of Wisconsin. -
Edward Rorem papers, 1974
The Biography of Edward Rorem, pastor, educator, administrator by his grandson, Paul Edward Rorem. Edward Rorem was a graduate of St. Olaf College, 1908, and of the United Church Seminary, 1911. His life's work included service as a parish minister; the presidency of Madison Lutheran Normal School, 1921-1927; and the superintendency of Sunset Home, Story City, Iowa, 1943-1954. -
Kristina W. Rosbe student paper, 1985
"A Norwegian-American Dream," a story told in the first person about a woman returning to Norway for a visit. The account is based on the writer's reading of immigrant history of a Wisconsin community. -
J. Hart Rosdail papers, 1837-1961
A collection of materials used by a descendent of a "Slooper" family in compiling the book "The Sloopers: Their Ancestry and Posterity," 1961. Rosdail, a teacher from Elmhurst, Illinois, was listed in the Guinness Book of Records for his world travels. The "NY Times," Nov. 11, 1973, published a story about him and his experiences in the far corners of the world.
Includses:- Biographical information; Miscellaneous clippings; translation of document re: stop in Madeira of Restauration; Sloopers: Family Indexes, Kendall, N.Y. Settlement map, Monroe County history; Slooper Miscellany; Norse American Centennial Items. Includes talk by Ralph A. Kimble (1931), lunch menu for Pres. Coolidge at Nicollet Hotel (1925); Fox Valley & Ottawa, Ill. Items; Colonna, Frank: "The Sloopers" (1971); Ole and Mary Aasen Family; Jane Atwater papers; Ewers family; John Johnson, Slooper; Ikdal Family correspondence; Rosdail family; Slogvik family; Stangeland Family; and Vaaland Family.
- Old Letters (1837, transcribed letter from Ole Johnsonl 1885, from John Laugman (sp?); Bakkevig, Erik. Correspondence; Bakkevig, Erik. Genealogical charts; correspondence 1930s-1940s; correspondence 1950.
- Correspondence files (1951-1960s)
- Slooper notebooks, 1961
Slogvik Family
Rosdail, J. Hart
Sloopers, Family Indexes
Colona, Frank
Atwater, Jane
Sloopers, Miscellany
Aasen, Ole T
Larson, Lars
Aasen, Lawrence O.
Velde, Faltin
Ewers, Jesse E.
Ewers, John Canfield
Ewers, John Ray
Bush, Stephen Hayes
Rendahl, Junald
Atwater, John
Geilane, Lars Larsen
Atwater, Margaret Allen Larson
Johnson, John
Johnson, Nancy P.
Gaut, Anna Mae
Aasen, Mary Christinia Lein
Rosdail Family
Jacobson, Ray K.
Stangeland Family
Stangeland, Andreas Kniudsen
Grange, Jessie Cary
Stangland, Benjamin Franklin
Ewers, Anna Hart
Velde, Elida
Larson, Martha G.
Steine, Johannes Jacobson
Vaaland Family
Vaaland, Svend Larson
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Ove Rosdail (Danielsen) letters, 1847-1849
Two letters to Rosdail, La Salle County, Illinois. One letter in English from Lars Ellickson, Company G, 1st Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Santa Fe, New Mexico, concerns the death of Rosdail's brother-in-law, Cornelius Cothrien (1814-1847). The other, from Ole Johnson [Eide], Kendall, New York, concerns sale of land. -
Eli M. Rosenbaum transcript, undated
An 80-page typescript entitled "Eugenics in Norway: An Historical Account" by Rosenbaum, University of Pennsylvania. -
Peter Julius Rosendahl cartoons, 1918-1980
Bound copies of the first and second compilations of "Han Ola og Han Per," the only continuous Norwegian cartoon published in America. The series appeared in Decorah Posten, 1918 - 1942, with re-runs until the paper was discontinued in 1972. The compilations were transferred to St. Olaf library for cataloging in 1997, a duplicate copy of the second is included here. The creator of the cartoon was a farmer near Spring Grove, Minnesota, the son of immigrant parents from Norway. His brother Carl Otto Rosendahl was a distinguished botanist at the University of Minnesota. Also includes "Han Ola og Han Per: A Prairie Comic Strip," by Robert Bly, published in A Lake Superior Journal, v.1, no. 1, winter-spring 1975, "Selections from Han Ola og han Per" sponsored by Ye Olde Opera House, Inc., Spring Grove, Minnesota, 1980, 37 pages, poem "A cabin in the woods", 'Han Ola og han Per' published by Air Push hog Press, 1980, "Peter Julius Rosendahl" by John Wogsland, 17 p. typescript, newspaper clippings about Rosendahl. -
Reidar Victor Colderup Rosenvinge papers, 1959-1979
Clippings, correspondence, family history, and a 1979 Rolf Erickson interview of a Norwegian-born painter who came from Halden, Norway, to Chicago in 1926, where he worked at painting and decorating. At the same time he continued his studies in art at the Art Institute in Chicago, painting landscapes and murals. In 1972 he began work in "rosemaling" and gave lessons in that art in several Chicago centers.
Includes:- Includes interview with Rolf Erickson, August 1979
- Mural at Bethesda Home. Includes clippings, correspondence.
- Family History.
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Malcolm Rosholt papers, 1902-1990
Miscellaneous articles, clippings, photographs, correspondence, manuscripts, family history material of a former foreign correspondent (Asia) and freelance writer, in recent years best known as an expert on the local history of central Wisconsin, especially the Norwegian settlements described by Thor Helgesen as "Indianeres land," which encompass sites such as Stevens Point, Iola, and Scandinavia. A translation of J. W. C. Dietrichson's "Reise blandt de norske emigranter"; a history of St. Michael's Hospital, Stevens Point, Wisconsin; a serial in the "Iola Herald" (1965-1970) entitled "From the Indian Land" (based on Helgesen's "Fra Indianernes lande" (1915), on plat books, and town, school, and church records) that relates the history of Norwegian settlements in Waupaca County, Wisconsin; cassettes containing interviews, mainly about the late author O. A. Buslett; "A Photo Album of the Past"; and biographical information about Rosholt himself and about his earlier family members who gave Rosholt, Wisconsin, its name.
See: A letter from Mina Hellestad to Rosholt's wife, donated 1994, will be found in the Oscar 0. Hellestad papers, P 149.Audio recordings include coversations with:
- Amelia Nottelson (Scandinavia, WI), circa 1950
- Sonia Nilsen (Scandinavia, WI), 1953
- She is the daughter of Ole Nilsen.
- Oscar Hellestad, China missionary, circa 1965
- John Solem, concerning Buslett, 1976
- Rev. S.H. Njaa, undated
- Roshol is his son-in-law. Interviews about Njaa's early life as a mission paster in Canada in the early 1900s.
- Alfred Erickson (Chicago, IL), undated
- Hallis Wilson (Amherst, WI), undated
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Gustav Rosseland letters, 1901-1918
Rosseland spent his early years as a sailor, and served with British supply ships to Africa during the Boer War. In 1903 he married Anna Larsen (born April 10, 1879, Kristiansand) and he emigrated (to Stearns, Kentucky) in 1904, where his wife and daughter joined him. A second child was born 1908 at Stearns; a third was born at Ludington, Michigan; a fourth at Castor, Alberta, Canada.
Letters written to Rosseland's sister and to his wife from Stearns, Ludington, and Youngstown, Alberta. An English translation was spoken onto a tape, which is included (no transcription has been made).