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Commercial fisheries articles, 1940-1980
Articles (mostly photocopies) about commercial fisheries off the Pacific coast of North America, in which many Norwegian-Americans participated.; Lokken, Harold. "The halibut fishing, an important industry developed by Norwegians." Trønderlagets aarbok, 1940-41, pp. 76-82.; DeArmond, Robert N. "pioneers of the halibut fleet." Alaska, the territorial magazine, October 1946, pp. 16-17.; Page, Don. "Alaska king crab boom." Seattle Post-Interlligencer, August 16, 1964, pp. 9-11.; "The Alaskan king crab industry."
Alaska: review of business and economic conditions University of Alaska, Institute of Business, Economic and Government Research. November 1965, pp. 2-8.; Larssen, A.K. "From other harbors: Petersburg, Alaska: meaningful progress." The Fishermen's News, February 1975, pp. 3,8 ",,,From the ‘long, long ago.'" September 1977 pp. 5,18 "…From the saga of the Pacific cod fishery." February-March1980 (4 parts).; Chadwick, Susan. "They make their fortune fishing for king crab." Alaska Journal of Commerce, March 3, 1978.; Page, Don. "High stakes on high seas." Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 27, 1978, B-7. "Record king crab harvest in Alaska." Seattle Times, December 29, 1978.; Ramsey, Bruce. "Alaska crab rush brings gold from sea." Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 13, 1979, pp. 1-10.; Loven, Pamela S. "NW fishermen reeling from slashing of king crab prices."
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Sept. 24, 1980.; Arestad, Sverre. "The Norwegians in the Pa;cific Coast fisheries." The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, January 1943, pp. 3-17. (and as reprinted in Washington Posten, March 26, 1943.; Article "adapted from Oil and water: the struggle for Georges Bank, by William H. MacLeish, Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1985. "Incomplete copy, no author, title, source, pp. 107-110. -
Betty Bergland article, 2003
Faculty member at Univ. of Wisconsin-River Falls, Bergland presented her paper, "Norwegian Immigrants, Wisconsin Tribes and the Bethany Indian Mission in Wittenberg, Wisconsin, 1883-1955" (37 typescript pages) at the NAHA-Norge, 2003. -
Richard W. Solberg papers, 1938-1999
A well-known Lutheran pastor, historian, writer and educator, Solberg was born in Minneapolis, son of Carl K. Solberg, brother of Carl T. Solberg. He graduated from St. Olaf College in 1938, later received graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin (1939) and the University of Chicago (1952), and graduated from Luther seminary in 1943. He served as pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Ingleside, Illinois, 1943-1945, and later taught history at St. Olaf and Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D. He served as religious affairs advisor for the U.S. Military Government and the U.S. High Commission in Berlin (1949-1950) and as representative of the Lutheran World Federation in Germany (1953-1956). From 1964-1973 he was vice president for academic affairs at Thiel College, and from 1973-1982 he was director for higher education for the Lutheran Church in America.
In 1957 he published As between brothers: the story of Lutheran response to world need; in 1961, God and Caesar in East Germany; in 1980, How Church-related are church related colleges?; in 1985, Lutheran higher education in North America; in 1992 Open doors: the story of Lutherans resettling refugees; and in 1991, Miracle in Ethiopia. Copies of all except the last are in the library collection.; 1 volume "A student traveler's European journey, Summer 1938." 160 p.; 1 vol. "My first eighty years, a personal memoir." 1949 p. + index. 2 copies.; 1 vol. "Rev. Carl K. Solberg, 1872-1954; sketches of his life and career."; Various pagings. "Account of his life as seen through the pages of his diaries" which are in C.K. Solberg's papers; 1 vol. As between brothers. 1957; 1 folder "C.K. Solberg and the Indremission" and related material. -
The Promise of America exhibition papers, 1983-1986
Correspondence, clippings, brochures, etc. about an exhibition held in connection with the publication of Odd Lovoll's The promise of America, first at the Sonja Henie/Nils Onstad Art Center at Hovikodden June 23-Sept. 16, 1984, and later at the Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minn., June 22, 1985-June 1, 1986.; Includes also a prospectus for a proposed voyage of the Hardanger yacht "Anna Kristina" to a number of American cities, and special issues of "Samtiden:Tidsskrift for Politikk, Litteratur og Samfunnssporsmaal" (v. 93 no. 3, 1984) and "Prisma-Nytt" (no. 9, Summer 1984).
Also program and report of the Norwegian-American Seminar I held at Hovikodden June 26-30, 1984, proceedings of which were published in 1986 as Essays on Norwegian-American Literature and History, edited by Dorothy Burton Skaardal and Ingeborg Konglien.; The "Samtiden" issue has articles by John R. Jenswold, Hans Fredrik Dahl, Nils Johan Ringdahl, Terje I. Leiren, Kjetil Flatin, Ingeborg R. Kongslien, Caecilie Stang. Among subjects treated are Thorstein Veblen, Hans Tambs Lyche, Naakon Nyhuus. -
Sonja (Hegge) Hillestad papers, 1995
Ole Hegge was "a world-famous ski jumper…In 1926, skiing for Norway, he won the King's Cup in the combined event for jumping and cross country…In 1928, in the Olympics, he won a silver medal for Norway, again for a combined event. He was a member of that country's Olympic cross-country team three times." He emigrated in the 1930s and "worked as a carpenter for the Westchester Co. YMCA and for Camp Sloane in Lakeville, retiring in 1966. He skied in local races and helped coach jumping and cross country for the Salisbury Winter sports Association." His wife was Solveig (Thorkildsen), 1904-1986.
Mrs. Hillestad's biography of her father is 24 typescript pages; that of her mother 15 typescript pages. The photocopies are mostly undated.; According to a May 7, 2002 letter, in 1926 "King Haakon broke the Norwegian cultural/racial exclusion of nordlanders by dramatically including Ole publicly in his person sphere A very similar experience to our Jackie Robinson being accepted in our US popular culture…In 1930, Ole and Sonja Henie were sponsored to present skating and skiing to Americans via Madison Square Garden. This resulted in the first ski train being chartered to the first northeastern ski jump in Norfolk, Conn. In Norfolk, the boy from nordland physically built the facility." Includes family stories, biographies of her parents, and photocopies of newspaper articles and other materials about her father's athletic career. -
James T. Hillestad article, circa 1900
"A consideration of Iowa's Norwegian-Americans politically through the editorial policy of the Republikaneran, 1899-1901."
Contents:- Background of the Norwegian-American press and politics. History of the Republikaneran. Winnebago County. Editorial policy of Republikaneren 1899-1901. Bibliography, 24 p. Appendix: Norwegian language newspapers contemporaneous with the Republikaneran in Iowa. Winnebago County, Iowa, newspapers, 1899, 1902. Some Iowa population statistics. The personalities treated in this paper: Albert Baird Cummins. John Henry Gear. Gilbert S. Gilbertson. Gilbert N. Haugen. Leslie Mortier Shaw. John Story.; Begun 1887 in Story City, Iowa, as Story City Tilskuer. In 1888 changed name to Vesterheimen, later to Sioux City Tidende. Moved to Lake Mills, Iowa in 1897, changed name to Republikaneran. Folded in 1903.
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Stavig letters, 1882
Translations of over 150 letter between the Lars A. Stavig family and that of his half-brother, Knudt Stavik. Lars emigrated from the Stavik farm in Romsdal in June 1876 with his wife and three sons. In 1882 they homesteaded near Nutley in Day county, South Dakota. Knudt remained on the home farm. The letters were preserved by Lars' grandson Harold Torness, and translated by Marta Boyce.
Folder 1- Includes family photographs, maps. Two brochures: "Through the eyes of an immigrant: a conference on Scandinavian immigration told through history, drama, and architecture, October 12-13, 1996," at the Stavig House Museum, Sisseton, S.D.; and, "The Stavig letters: the story of a Norwegian immigrant, Monday, July 16, 2001, Minnesota History Center, St. Paul." (Dr. Wayne Knutson (University of South Dakota) "developed this dramatization based on the letters."
- DVD "The Stavig Letters: The Story of a Norwegian Immigrant" is a dramatic performance of the letters selected, edited and Dramatized by Dr. Wayne S. Knutson, Professor Emeritus at the University of South Dakota. The cast of three includes a narrator and the two half-brothers, Lars Stavig, who comes to the prairie, and Knut Stavik, who remains in Norway. Using direct excerpts from the letters and basic theater props, the play lasts approximately 70 minutes and can be performed anywhere. "The Stavig Letters" is a program of the South Dakota Humanities Speakers Bureau: http://www.sdpb.org/stavigletters/
- Jane Torness & John S. Rasmussen (compiled & annotated), Dear Unforgettable Brother: The Stavig Letters from Norway and America, 1881-1937 (2013). Includes essays from Edvard Hoem, “One Family, Two Lands. Why Did We Leave?” and Betty A. Bergland, “Norwegian Immigration to the United States and the Northern Great Plains.” Over 130 years have passed since Lars Stavig first wrote home to Knut Stavig. Like the lives their authors lived, their letters reflect the challenges faced by families in both Norway and America. Covering the span of five decades, these letters gained popularity through an award-winning South Dakota PBS film. The communication among the Stavig relatives gives readers personal insight into the lives of those who emigrated and those who stayed behind.
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Lute Olsen article, 2002 September 22
"Special commemorative section" of the Arizona Daily Star honoring his election to the Basketball Hall of Fame, Springfield, Massachusetts. Born September 22, 1934 on a farm outside Hatton, N.D., Olson grew up in Mayville and Grand Forks, N.D., and graduated from Augsburg College (Minneapolis) in 1956. He served as coach and teacher in Mahnomen and Two Harbors, Minn,; Boulder, CO.; Anaheim, CA. In 1974 he was named head basketball coach at the University of Iowa; in 1983 head basketball coach at the University of Arizona. -
Eigel Strömsöe article and letters, 1892-1906
"A preliminary English version" of an article published in a Norwegian journal, based on about eighty letters written to his parents in Levanger by Andrea Stomsoe between 1892 and 1906, with extensive excerpts from the letters. Stromsoe was born 1869 and studied pharmacology at the University of Kristiania. He immigrated to America in 1892, and worked at drugstores in Brooklyn, N.Y.; Park River, N.D.; Morris, Minn.; Chicago. In May 1895 he returned to Brooklyn where he spent the rest of his life. In 1893 he married a fellow emigrant whom he had known in Kristiania, and they had four children. The family made an extensive visit to Norway in 1906. Andreas died in 1917, 47 years old.
"The letters describe Andreas' working and family experiences as an immigrant…making his way in America, include his observations on numerous aspects of the American and Norwegian scenes of the era, comments on the doings of many relatives, and expressions of his outlook on life." (Introd. by Richard Palmer). Includes a family tree compiled by Palmer, and photographs of the family and places in Norway associated with the family; and information about Andreas' four sisters.
Also includes letters from Andreas Strömsöe to his parents, Peder Gustav and Emilie Wold, 1892-1906. -
Helen M. Thal autobiography, 2002
Childhood in Lakota; stories of the 1920s in small-town North Dakota" San Diego, CA, copyright 2002 by Helen M. Thal.
"First written as apart of a personal history writing class…between 1994 and 2000…For the Thal kids our lives were typical of the rest of the town, but with one exception: our Grandpa and Grandma Thal were Jews who had emigrated from Germany in 1882. Their oldest son Abraham, my dad married Ida Ellingboe, a Norwegian Lutheran school teacher…My Uncle Gus married a Methodist, and lonly Alfred managed to find himself a Jewish wife. So being ‘Jew' didn't mean much to us kids."; "In Part Two, I have edited and reprinted a story told by Grandma Thal…that describes…the harshness of homesteading in the new land. It was first published in a book, Pioneer stories written by people of Nelson county, N.D." Received from the Carl Solberg estate, 2003.; Born 1916, Thal graduated from St. Olaf College in 1938, earned graduate degrees from the University of Iowa and Teachers College, Columbia University. She has been an English and journalism teacher, and editor, and a professor. She retired from Penn State University in 1981.