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Minnie Haukaas memoir, 1982
Draft (edited by her son, Rich Nelson of the University of Puget Sound) of her memoir. Places are left for photographs to be included in final version. Minnie was born at Aneta, North Dakota to immigrant parents. Memories of growing up in western North Dakota, (Golva, N.D.), until her marriage to Carl Hjalmer Nelson in 1922. "Essentially this is Mom's Story which she wrote in the late sixties" ed. by Rich Nelson.
"Minnie, a North Dakota homestead girl, part I; Minnie Haukaas, her own story." 48 p. 1982. Topics addressed: Promise of America (p.7); Sorrow about leaving (p.)9; Immigrant voyage (p.11); Soliciting sweetheart to come to America (p.15); Farming (p.17); Winter (p.19;) Well (p.21); Baking (p.23); Christmas gifts (p.25); Sears Roebuck (p.25); Voyage back to Norway (p.26); Visiting family (p.27); Forest (p.28); Inheritance (p.28-29); Rosemaling (p.29); Funeral (p.30); Crop payments (p.30-31) Draft (p.31,34); Babies (p.32); Infant mortality (p.32); Sweetheart (p.35); Marriage proposal (p.36,39); Regret (p.37); Romance (p.38); Permission to marry (p.40); North Pacific Railroad (p.39,42); Railroad Strike of 1922 (p.41, 43); Happiness (p.43); Bears (p.45); Jesus (p.47). -
Norwegian American Immigrant Family monument collection, 1995-1996
Information about a monument, "The Promise of America," which was erected at the east entrance to Lake Mills, Iowa and dedicated October 8, 1995. Virginia Kingland headed the commission established in 1993 to raise the needed $200,000. The sculptor was Clifford J. Carlson of Wesley, Iowa.
Includes: The dedication program includes a reproduction of the bronze plaque located at the site listing pioneer families; each mane represented a gift of $1,000. In addition to the program, there are clippings from the Lake Mills Graphic and the Des Moines Register; a print of the Floyd G. Thomas painting which served as a model; photographs and notecards with several different views of the painting and the monument; a copy of the remarks which Mrs. Kingland made at the dedication (6 p. typescript). Also, related material by Elaine Bergan (a member of the Commission) prepared for the 1996-7 Lag Stevne in Forest City: "What the area was like when the Norwegians arrived" (9 p. typescript); "Revisting the 1911 Telelag meeting at Lake Mills," (a skit, 3 p. typescript); a family history of the family of Erick (Kobbervig Olson (1846-1930), one of the families listed on the plaque. -
Norwegians in New York exhibit catalog, 2000
Information about an exhibit held at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, April-October 2000. 1. Catalog, "Norwegians in New York, 1825-2000: builders of city, community, and culture," edited by Liv Irene Myhre. Published by The Norwegian Immigration Association, Inc., with support from The Royall Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 117 p.
Contents.-Reams of freedom, hopes of progress: "175 years ago," by Sigurd Jansen; "Journey to build a future," by Knut Djupedal. Building high, tunneling deep, from the early maritime settlers to the 1950s," by David C. Mauk. American city, Norwegian colony: "Creating the colony together: the early years, the 1860s to 1914," by David C. Mauk. Community strength, cultural solidarity: "Tests of Old world tradition, new world customs: "In the comfort of the home," by Darrell D. Henning: "Art among the Norwegians of New York," by Marion Nelson. Norway's children, Americans all: "A contemporary portrait of Norwegian Americans," by Odd S. Lovoll. The Norwegian Immigration Association Membership."; 2. Biographical supplement. 15 p.; 3. Opening gala program.; 4. Newsletter of Thompson Museum consulting, which created the exhibit. -
Marion J. Nelson articles, 1971-2002
Articles by Nelson, and clippings about him. "American woodcarvers from Telemark." Telemark Historie no 8., 1987, pp. 24-53. (photocopy) "Paintings by Minnesota Norwegians 1870 to 1970." The Norseman, March 2000 pp. 13-16 (photocopy); A review of his Three Landsverks: the art of an immigrant family (1990) is in Telemark historie no. 12, pp. 158-159. (library collection). "Luther College pioneer memorial" (by Tarkjel Landsverk), article by Frieda Nowland, Telesoga May 2002. NAHA in 1994 published a book he edited, Material culture and people's art among the Norwegians in America. Added Nov. 6, 2013: "Herbjørn Gausta, Norwegian-American Painter" (offprint of Americana Norvegica Vol. III, Studies in Scandinavian-American Interrelations, 1971). -
Sigurd Styrk Reque articles, 1938
Series of seven articles, "Fra pionertiden of fremover," published in Decorah Posten, Aug. 19-Sept. 23, 1938. Subtitles: 1. Den aeldste norske bosaetning i det nordostre hjorne af Iowa og sydostre hjorne af Minnesota. 2. Nils Brandts forste kirkelige handling i Iowa. Hans forste gudstjeneste i Winneshiek County. Rare stedsnavne. Den forste brudevielse. Da Decorah bestod af ett hus. Det forste kaldsbrev af 1852. 3. Brandts 40,000 mils missionsreirser. Han blir knyttet til Luther College og Decorah. Diderikke Brandt. Ulrik Vilhelm Koren modtar kaldelsen fra Amerika. Fra has studenteraar i Kristiania. Ordination og bryllup med frk. Else Elisabeth Hysing. 4. Lidt om Pastor Korens og hustrus reise til Amerika. Jernbanen gik med 18 mils fart. En spaendende ferd over Mississippi. Ankomsten til Washington Prairie. 5. Korens forste dag paa Washington Prairie. Nybyggernes forste boliger var primitive. Prestefolkene blir kjendt med sine sognebarn. 6. Af praeriens saga. Erick Anderson. Den forste laererinde. Det hjertensgode, afholdte aegetepar "Onkel" Ole og "Tante" Mary Anderson. 7. Springfield menigheds historie. Menighedens prester fra 1852 til idag. Presteseminar i Springfield. Mange velkjendte navne. -
Osmund O. Risvold records, 1900-1925
Risvold was born at Sauda, Rogaland, emigrated 1873, graduated from Augsburg Seminary 1882. Served churches at Centuria, Wis., 1882-1919; Norway Lake, Minn. -
Nils Kolle articles, 1983-1984
"Paa sporet etter Bomlo-emigrantar," six articles published in Bomlo-nytt, June 17, 1983-March 23, 1984, tracing emigrants from Bomlo kommune, Hordaland, to the United States. The author visited Story City, Iowa; Norway Lake, Minn,; Valley City, N.D.; Seattle.; 1.Mote med den nye verda.2. Gjensyn med Lars Steinsland. 3. Den gloymde grav. 4. Mostringane ved Norway Lake i Minnesota. 5. Ein Bremmeskoloni i Nord-Dakota (2 parts). 6. Portrett av ein emigrant (Salomon Sortland).; The "Bremmenskoloni" is Litchville, Lamoure, co. N.D. -
Lars A. Stavig autobiography and family history, 1932, 1987
Stavig was born in Fraena, More og Romsdal fylke and married Maren Hustad there. The family emigrated in 1876, first to Pope county, Minn. In 1884 they moved to Day county, South Dakota. After his wife's death in 1908 Lars moved to Sisseton, S. D. His autobiography (37 p., typescript) was written in 1932. Also, included: descendants charts of Lars' and Maren's family, and of Maren's parents. Announcement of a "heritage day" celebrating the 1876 arrival in the U.S. of the family. Aug. 19, 1987 letter of Harold L. Torness about the several branches of the Stavig/Stavick family. Articles of Torness about his father, Ole Torness (who married Anna Stavig). Letters written by Torness while on a 1967 visit to the family farms in Norway. -
Karel Hansen Toll family history, 1937
Information about a presumed Norwegian who settled in the Schenectady region of New York state about 1680. See A.N. Rygg's article in Norwegian-American Studies, v. 14, (1944) pp. 244-248. "No direct proof that Hansen was a Norwegian can be produced. Nothing definite is known of him before he appeared about 1680 in Albany and Schenectady, where he spent the remainder of his life. But the tradition in his family maintains that he was a Norwegian." In 1712 "he bought 38 acres in Maalwyck. Here he made his home and he or his son Daniel built in 1717 a solid house of stone." He "is regarded as the first Norwegian who sat in a lawmaking assembly in America." Photocopy of pp. 231-242 of "Story of the Maalwyck" by Percy M. Van Epps, published by the Town Board of Glenville, N.Y., 1937.; Correspondence (1993) of John Chamberlin about the Toll family with Karel G. Toll and Susan Erickson.; See in the library collection, photocopy of Daniel J. Toll's Narrative embracing the history of two or three of the first settlers and their families in Schenectady. 1847 p. 57. -
Jens P. Vigdahl papers, 1938-1965
Born at Fortun, Sogn og Fjordane fylke, Vigdahl emigrated in 1908 to Viroqua, Vernon county, Wisconsin. He worked first on farms, then as a merchant, and from 1938 had an insurance agency. He was active in municipal and Norwegian-American organizations, serving many years as president of the Sognalag and as chair of the Bygdelagenes Faellesraad. In 1956 awarded St. Olav medal.
Includes correspondence, 1938-1965, mainly with relatives in Norway; manuscript of talk Vigdahl delivered at a Leif Erickson Fest in 1952; manuscript of a speech by Orland S. Loomis at a 1942 "I am an American day" in Viroqua sponsored by Sons of Norway; certificate of service, Lions Club, 1951/52; 4 photographs of 5th District Sons of Norway convention, (Burchett studio, Rockford, Illinois); church choir; men's club.