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"A Norwegian-American Dream," a story told in the first person about a woman returning to Norway for a visit. The account is based on the writer's reading of immigrant history of a Wisconsin community.
A pamphlet, To the Slums with Love, by Marie Sandvig and Doris Nye; a copy of the Minneapolis Tribune Picture Magazine, September 4, 1983, which tells the story of how Sandvig, a Norwegian immigrant, opened a Revival Mission in 1940 and brought material help as well as the Gospel to the unfortunate in what was then a Skid Row district. The Marie Sandvig Center moved to Franklin Avenue in 1974.
"J. Theodore Sohner, Portrait Painter," by Ione Kadden, the story of a versatile artist who was also a fine musician. Subjects for his paintings were distinguished Minnesotans: governors, senators, judges, scientists, and musicians. A plea is made in the story for locating the extant Sohner portraits so that a record may be preserved at Vesterheim Norwegian American Museum in Decorah, Iowa.
Copies of newspaper articles which relate the story of a successful search for ancestors in Naustdahl, Sunnfjord, by a woman whose adoption papers indicated a Norwegian background.
"Feminists and Church Leaders: Norwegian-American Women in Transition, 1850-1920," a report submitted to the American Studies Committee at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts.
The writer is a grand-daughter of Peter Norbeck, who served in the United States Senate from South Dakota
A pamphlet published by La Porte County, Indiana, Historical Society; an article by Robert F. Coffeen; and a reproduced copy of the dust jacket of a book about a notorious immigrant from Selbu, who came to Chicago in the 1890s. Belle Gunness is believed to have been a serial killer. There is a mystery about what finally happened to her.
For additional information, see Mrs. Gunness: nutidens største forbryder kvinde, by Lars Stenholt, Minneapolis, 1908, in the NAHA book collection.
A list of materials used for writing a history of the Norwegian settlement in Brooklyn. This study led to Mauk's The Colony That Rose from the Sea, published by NAHA in 1998.
A church register that lists members, officers, etc. of the Square Norsk Baptist Menighet. The minutes from 1908 to 1918 are in Norwegian. The file includes six pages of photocopied material concerning the church.
Minutes, correspondence, and newspaper clippings concerning a Minneapolis men's athletic club organized by a merger of Norge Athletic Club and the Norse Sports Club. The members were active in soccer, skiing, and skating. The club gradually became inactive, but members gathered for social fellowship until formal dissolution of the Club in 1983.