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April Rose Schultz dissertation, 1991
"'A Peculiar People': Celebration, Historical Memory and the Creation of Ethnic Identity among Norwegian American in the 1920s." "This study...analyses the Norwegian-American Immigration Centennial, a national celebration, as a strategic site for the invention of ethnicity. Through this celebration, Norwegian Americans constructed their own, though quite contested, vision of the past and the present, a social and cultural construction that both accommodated and resisted dominant Anglo-American conceptions of assimilation." A revised version was published by the University of Massachusetts Press, 1994, as Ethnicity on Parade: Inventing the Norwegian American through Celebration. A Minnesota History review (Winter 1996-1997) of the book is included.
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Karl Johan Berner Schultz memoir, 1977
"Bevegelsen gjennem livet," a few reminiscences from his childhood by a Norwegian who immigrated to the United States with his parents when he was five years old. Schultz lived in the Chicago area.
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Mildred M. Sebo narrative, 1954
A history of the Sebu-Myhre family, an account of the family's centennial celebration and of their first Christmas in America in Cedar Valley (1854), by a La Molle, Minnesota, resident. -
Niels Nielsen Sebo correspondence, 1848-1865
Family letters addressed to an immigrant who came to Winona County, Minnesota, in the early 1850s. The file contains a summary of each letter. Correspondents include: Ole N. Bergum, Ingebor Halvorsdatter, Arne Knudson (town of Pery) -
Mabel Hodnefield Seely papers, 1925, 1980
Papers of a Norwegian-American author of mystery novels, some of which have Minnesota settings. The file consists mainly of manuscripts, working papers, correspondence, and clippings.
Includes:- "Minnesota Quarterly." Includes: essay by Kenneth Seeley, "Vinegar and Gall" (1925) & "Old People" a story by Mabel Hodnefield; dust cover for "Woman of Property" a novel.
- Manuscripts "Iowa Norske." (10 p., typescript. n.d.)
- Manuscripts correspondence, 1980
- Working papers of "The Whispering Cup," a novel.
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Johannes Olsen Seim letters, 1857-1872
Letters to his family in Norway by an immigrant who came first to Lodi, Wisconsin, and then settled in Winneshiek County, Iowa. -
Claire Selkurt papers, 1848-2000
A graduate of St. Olaf College, Selkurt got her M.A. in the Design department of the University of Minnesota, with thesis on the architecture and applied arts of the early settlement period (1839-1950) of early Norwegian settlers of Luther Valley settlement, Rock County, Wisconsin. In 1979 she received the Ph.D. in art history at the University. She has taught at Mankato State University and the College of Liberal Arts, St. Paul. Her article, "The domestic architecture and cabinetry of Luther Valley" was published in Norwegian-American Studies, v. 30, pp. 247-272 (1985). The larger part of the collection consists of materials Selkurt collected in the course of her research on Luther Valley: notes on reading, photocopies of articles, photographs of buildings, bibliographic notes, papers she wrote for classes (including "Wood and stone: the frontier heritage," American architecture, 1972, 20 p. and 30 p. illus.), correspondence, etc.
Materials are in rough alphabetical order, and a few topics are noted here: Halvor N. Aae clock, signet ring, spoon. Arnold cabin fragment. Bornits. Notes on Signe Betsinger's doctoral thesis. Article by Thora Bohn. Clausen parsonage. Cleophas family. Crispensen cabin. Correspondence. Engelbretson house. Saber Gesley farm, bureaus, recollections of Torris Gesley. Gilbertson cabin at Turkop. Gravedale furniture. Greenwalt house. Haugen house. Heyerdahl house. Limestone quarry. Lofthus stone house. Melvin Lund house. Luther Valley. Emigraten print shop. Palombi grainery and house. Saberson house. Schee (Tollefsrud) house. Paul Skavlem bowls, furniture, house. Springen house. Strand house. Thostensen house. Turkop. Vesterheim Museum. Wagley (Vegli) cabin. Selkurt served as curator of the exhibit, "Norwegian-American art in Minnesota today," April 29-June 3, 2000, at the Groveland Gallery (25 Groveland Terrace, Minneapolis, MN 55403). She wrote and "introductory essay" (2 p.) and the text of the 4 p. catalog introducing the artists, with color illustration. Artists included: Wendell Arneson, Alison Aune. Kirsten Aune. Caroly Brunelle. Ruth Donhowe. Ann Jenkins. Ann Klefstad. Richard Krogstad. Tom Maakestad. Ruth Ann Larsen Norlund. Carl Oltvedt. Nancy Randall. Arna Renna.
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Ingrid Semmingsen papers, 1972-1996
Citation for an honorary degree, Dr. of Letters, St. Olaf College (1974), prepared by Kenneth O. Bjork; a review of Gudrun Hovde Gvåle's biography of Rølvaag and "A Shipload of German Emigrants and their Significance for the Norwegian Emigration of 1825"; "Etnisk historie i America," from "Heimen," no. 3, 1983; "Uppsalagruppen," a manuscript; "Til minne om Ingrid Semmingsen," by Sivert Langholm, in "Historisk tidsskrift," no. 3, 1996; and a collection of clippings. Dr. Semmingsen was professor of American history at the University of Oslo, specializing in the Norwegian migration to America.
Contents:- Articles
- Includes: Drøm og daad; utvandringen til Amerika. (Aschehoug, 1975) (another copy in library) "Amerika brev": talk given in Madison, sometime after 1975. Treats the "Lee letters, 115 in all ...1857-1925. The bulk of them date from the late seventies and onwards by two generations of emigrants" who emigrated from Hedalen, Valdres to Dane County., Wisconsin 19 p., photocopy of typescript and manuscript, with many manuscript revisions and insertions. Probably see America letters by Ole Andersen Lee, Mikkel Andersen Lee in America Letters collection. "Women in Norwegian emigration." 28 p. typescript, photocopy. "Peder Anderson of Bergen and Lowell: artist and ambassador of culture," by Eva L. Haugen and Ingrid Semmingsen. (American Norvegica IV, 29 p.) "Noen brevglimt av norske kvinners liv i Amerika" (By og bygd, v.30, 1985) pp. 209-214. "Nordic research into emigration" (Scand. J. Hist., 3:107-129, 1978) "Norwegian emigration in the nineteenth century" (Scand. Econ. Hist. Rev., viii no.2, pp.150-160. "Emigration from Scandinavia (Scand. Econ. Hist. Rev., xx no.1,1972, pp.45-60. "De tyske emigranter i Bergen, 1817-18 " (Bergens Historiske Forenings Skrifter, 77/76, 1976, pp.120-138. "A unique collection of America-letters in Norway" (Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, July 1984, pp.316-321. See also her article, "Family emigration from Bergen, 1874-92; some preliminary results of a statistical study" in Americana norvegica, vol. III (E.Haugen festskrift) E193.A6 v.3 (pp.28-63) 'LT7i. "Det norske Amerika: i fortid og naatid" (Kirke og Kultur,21, pp.321-345)
- Uppsalagruppen, 1996
- Conference papers--"The Lee Letters," undated
- "Women in Norwegian Emigration," undated
- Articles
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A.O. Serum papers, 1871-1927
Correspondence, reports, speeches, articles, clippings, and account books of a Norwegian-born farmer at Halstad, Minnesota. The papers include school district reports; articles and letters treating the early days in the Red River Valley; correspondence with Fuller and Johnson, farm machinery company, Madison, Wisconsin; and personnel at Augsburg and Augustana (Marshall, Wisconsin) seminaries. The clippings include items on synod controversies and letters from World War I servicemen. Serum held state and church offices, spoke on crop production, suffrage, monopoly, cooperatives, and local history, was the first teacher in his district, the first president of the Selbulag, and the author of "Nybyggerliv i Red Riverdalen" in "Selbygbogen." -
Clause Hanson Sether family history, 1958
"History of the Clause Hanson Sether Family," telling the story of his father who emigrated from Vardalen, Trondelag, to Goodhue County, Minnesota, in 1868, and later moved to Jackson County, Minnesota.
A pamphlet, "Early History of the Upper Midwest," compiled by Evelyn Wigen Watland is included (from "History of Jackson County")