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Lorie Topinka collection, 2020
"Once and Forever: The Long Journey home from Alaska to Norway 1927" by Lorie Topinka, 2020. My grandmother, Agnes Johnson Steberg, kept a daily diary during a five-month family trip in 1927 from Ketchikan along the Pacific Coast through the Panama Canal on to New York and across the Atlantic Ocean to Norway and then returning to Ketchikan overland by way of Minnesota.I was fortunate to find her diary in a box of family memorabilia and then fascinated to read this carefully written daily record of a highpoint of family history-the only return trip to Norway that my Norwegian grandfather, Knut Lauritz Steberg, ever made after immigrating to America in 1905 at the age of 18. This is a simple story about a middle-class Norwegian-American family before the Great Depression and the Second World War that captures the customs of that era and the character of this family. -
Mary Syverson Torbenson local history, 1965
Historical sketch of pioneer life in Moore Township, Ransom County, North Dakota, by a native of the area. -
Lars Torgersen letter, 1868
Transcript and copy of a letter to Torgersen's brother Simon in Scandinavia, Wisconsin, dated Solset, 16 January 1868, asking for financial help to enable him and his family to emigrate. -
Kristian Torgerson papers, 1920
Transcript of an "America Letter" from Fairdale, North Dakota, 1920; emigration certificate, 1883, for Torgerson's sister Karen; and family data from a niece, Petra Arnesen. -
Torger A. Torgerson papers, 1837-1994
Papers of a Norwegian-born Lutheran clergyman at Lake Mills, Iowa (1865?-1906): letters of transfer, baptismal certificates, histories of congregations he served, an article on slavery, a typescript copy of a biography of Torgerson's wife, Dina Anderson (Kvelve), by Erling Ylvisaker, and three pamphlets: "Falsk vidnesbyrd med mere," "aaben skrivelse til Pastor T. A. Torgerson," 14 pages, and "Chicagos Nordens Bogtrykkeri," 1886, 14 pages, both by H. A. Hartmann, and "Mærkelig tildragelse i Shell Rock, Silver Lake, Lime Creek of Round Prairie forenede N. E. L.," by T. A. Torgerson, 1870, 58 pages. Includes: "History of the Norwegian Synod from 1853-1879," (1936) 7 typescript pages, "My God, How Wonderful Thou Art," (n.d., by Rev. Erling Ylvisaker, Madison, Wis., 19 typescript pages.), Letters of Transfer & -
Iver Torkelson correspondence, 1863-1878
Copies of letters of a Norwegian-born Jackson County, Wisconsin, farmer, county official, and Civil War veteran (letter from Camp Dennison, Ohio). One American letter discusses farm crops, horse thieves, and church. Torkelson was a member of Company H, Fifteenth Wisconsin Regiment. Cf. O.A. Buslett "Femtende Wisconsin," p. 577 and Waldemar Ager, "Oberst Heg og Hans Gutter," p. 281. -
Luis Torres interviews, 1975
Interviews conducted by Luther College faculty and students with elderly residents of the Decorah, Iowa area during 1975 for the course "Winneshiek County Foxfire" taught by Torres. The interviews were first published in the student newspaper. Five were published in "Annals of Iowa," Winter 1976. These and other interviews were published in book form with the title "Conversations with the recent past" (Northeast Iowa Oral History Project, 1975; copy in the St. Olaf Library). -
Martha Torrison papers, 1931-1975
Correspondence and legal papers concerning a prominent family who were the descendents of Osul Torrison, pioneer merchant and ship owner in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The donor of the papers, Martha Torrison, was the daughter of Dr. George A. Torrison, a professor at Rush Medical College in Chicago. Includes: Agnes Torrison letters (postcards to Martha and Agnes); Osul Torrison estate; Isaac Torrison estate; Norman Torrison, William Torrison documents; O. Torrison Company papers (including photograph of sons George, Isaac, and Oscar); C.C. Stewart (husband of Agnes M. Torrison) will, 1939; concerning death, will, insurance of Martha Torrison (includes 1902 photograph Martha and Agnes).
Includes: Agnes Torrison letters (postcards to Martha and Agnes); Osul Torrison estate; Isaac Torrison estate; Norman Torrison, William Torrison documents; O. Torrison Company papers (including photograph of sons George, Isaac, and Oscar); C.C. Stewart (husband of Agnes M. Torrison) will, 1939; concerning death, will, insurance of Martha Torrison (includes 1902 photograph Martha and Agnes). -
Osuld Torrison papers, 1924-1930
Clippings and correspondence concerning a Norwegian-born Manitowoc, Wisconsin, merchant and his family. See article on Torrison by O.J. Breda in "Symra" (period.) v. 6 pp. 185-192. -
Ingvald Torvik lectures, 1950
The Language Situation in Norway and "Seventeenth of May Thoughts," by a visiting professor at St. Olaf College.