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Richard Teslow papers, 1875-1955
Papers and scrapbooks of a farmer of Hayward, Minnesota, including a farm auction bill from 1902. -
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. -
Patricia Boddy Tharp report, 1983
"From Emigrant with an E to Immigrant with an I...," a copy of a 26-page paper presented to the Dhahran Saudi Arabia Genealogical Society. The paper deals with general aspects of Norwegian emigration from 1830 through World War I. The concluding section is a series of "America Letters" from the 1880s, written by E.B. Hillesland and his brothers who settled on North Dakota farms near the writer's grandfather. -
Olaf Thesen dissertation, 1951
Trekk ved Utvandringa fra Ringsaker 1839 - 95, accepted at the University of Oslo for the doctor's degree. The dissertation deals with conditions in Ringsaker which created and encouraged the 'America fever': agriculture, farm economics and machinery, 'America letters', depressions, population explosion, California gold, and new processes of manufacture and of labor. 97 p, typescript. -
Thomas Thomason papers, 1862-1984
Copies of various autobiographical, genealogical, and miscellaneous writings of a carpenter who emigrated from Arendal to Dane County, Wisconsin, in 1861. In 1867 he settled in Stevens County, Minnesota, where he farmed and served in many county offices. He was appointed a first lieutenant in the Minnesota militia in 1870. He visited the Pacific Northwest in 1883 and Norway in 1897. He moved with his family to Sand Point, Idaho, in 1904. Papers consist of clippings of his contributions to newspapers about himself and various members of his family, personal documents, and letters from his family in Norway, including a vivid account of the 1863 fire which destroyed much of Arendal. Thomason interspersed his account with philosophical observations and poetry.
Includes:- "Slægtregister" (Genealogy), 1904
- Sefond journal. (second journal), undated
- Clippings, letters, etc. Includes photograph. Obituary (1913); "A Trip to Spokane Falls in 1883" by Doris Thomason Winslett (1984)
- "Slægtregister" (Genealogy) translation, 1904
- "Erindringer fra Ungdomsaarene" (Memories of My Youth), 1904
- Letters from his father, brother and sister in Norway, 1862-1889
- Second journal, translation, undated
- Newspaper clippings, translation, errata sheet. Includes: "Scraps of early history. Reminiscence of early days. Trails of the first settlers and other interesting bits of recollection from a paper prepared by Thos. Thomason for the Old Settlers" [Morris, Stevens County, MN]; translations regarding life in Morris, MN (1882, 1895); "Kootenai County, Idaho" (1905)
- Thomason's manuscripts. Includes "The Winter of 1896-97 versus 1872-1873" (blizzard) n.d.; "From the Fifties [1850s]; "Ocean Ice"; condensed autobiography covering years from emigration (1861) to move to Sandpoint (1904)
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Celia and Linne Thompson correspondence, 1906-1976, 2014
100+ original letters, spanning the years 1906-1976, which were used as the basis of the book by Lester Swenson, These Two Are Champions: A chronological book of facts, history, letters, pictures and interviews about the lives of two amazing women [Celia (1884-1978) and Linnie Thompson (1884-1979) from Radcliffe, Iowa]. Celia served as a missionary and teacher in Madagascar, and Linnie worked as a nurse and family caregiver. -
Christian S. Thompson scrapbook, 1890-1897
Contains pictures, programs, and clippings from Thompson's student days at St. Olaf College [Academy, 1893] and Luther College as well as from the Mount Horeb Academy. Mount Horeb Academy, St. Olaf College, Luther College. Majority of items are Luther College. Includes football ticket for game between Carleton and Luther (ca. 1895), concert program for St. Olaf College (Feb. 24, 1896) featuring: orchestra, glee club, Mathilda Finseth, C.J. Rollefson, and A. Lavik, St. Olaf Band program for March 9, 1896, program bill for Madame Ragna Linne concert with tickets. -
Elling Thompson correspondence, 1904-1921
Letters written by a Wiota, Wisconsin, farmer to a friend in Norway describing farm activity, topography, recreation, travel, and politics, and expressing appreciation of both America and Norway. -
Henry Thompson clippings, 1920-1934
Newspaper articles concerning the history of the Koshkonong Lutheran parish in eastern Dane County, Wisconsin. Thompson was a minister in that parish. -
J. Jørgen Thompson papers, 1896-1963
Articles, clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, and records of a Wisconsin-born St. Olaf College administrator and teacher. The papers concern campus life, public relations, counseling, courses of study, student and teacher recruitment, funds solicitation, band and choir tours, and Norwegian-American culture. Manuscripts include: "Rølvaag som lærer," "Min konfirmations dag" (1938), and minutes of the Board of the Norwegian Conference of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Thompson was president of Spokane College (1917-1920); dean of men at St. Olaf college (1923-1942); secretary of NAHA (1931-1958); president of the National Association of Deans and Advisers of Men (1940-1941).