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• Oral History

  Helen Bakke interview, 1995 November 21

  In this series of interviews by Odd Lovoll for his books “The Promise of America: History of the Norwegian-American People” and “The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today,” Lovoll interviews Andreas Rhude. Unprocessed This item is currently restricted.
• Karen Erikson Bakke history, 1950-1979

  "Besta: A Story of North Dakota Pioneering," by Cyrene Bakke Dear, 2 copies. Topics covered: child's toy kettle (p1), Civil War and fighting against slavery (p2), bootmaker (p2), growing hops (p2), barn dances (p2), wagon train (p3-4), making of klub (p6), "mother as a midwife" (p6-7), grasshopper plague (p7), life at Fort Lincoln, near Bismarck, N.D. (p8), General Custer (p9), capture of Rain-in-the-Face (p11), Sitting Bull (p11), Goose River Settlement (p14), pregnancy (p15), death of infant to TB (p15), Rev. Bjug Harstad (p15), build hotel in Mayville, N.D. (p16), railroad magnate James Hill (p16), church practices (p19), threshing (p21), ailing husband and cure at Hot Springs, Arkansas (p22), Christmas 1892 (p24), Julebukk (p24), becoming an auctioneer (p26), alcoholism (p26), postpartum depression and near suicide/infanticide (p28), Rev. Rorvik (p30), raising peacocks (p33), awful storm with hail (p33), living in Hillsboro (p34), theaer in the barn (p36), circus comning to town (p36), first telephone (p37), mourning Pres. McKinley (p37), typhoid treatment--starving patient/liquid diet. Taboo of bananas (p37), killed by a train (p37), water tower collapse (p38), speaking English with a Norwegian accent (p41), first automobile (p47)
  
  Topics covered: Civil War and fighting against slavery (p2), bootmaker (p2), growing hops (p2), barn dances (p2), making of klub, (p6) grasshopper plague (p7), life at Fort Lincoln, near Bismarck, N.D. (p8), General Custer (p9), capture of Rain-in-the-Face (p11), Sitting Bull (p11), Goose River Settlement (p14), pregnancy (p15), death of infant to TB (p15), Rev. Bjug Harstad (p15), build hotel in Mayville, N.D. (p16), railroad magnate James Hill (p16), church practices (p19), threshing (p21), Christmas 1892 (p24), Julebukk (p24), becoming an auctioneer (p26), alcoholism (p26), postpartum depression and near suicide/infanticide (p28), Rev. Rorvik (p30), raising peacocks (p33), living in Hillsboro (p34), theater in the barn (p36), circus coming to town (p36), first telephone (p37), mourning Pres. McKinley (p37), typhoid treatment--starving patient/liquid diet. Taboo of bananas (p37), killed by a train (p37), water tower collapse (p38), speaking English with a Norwegian accent (p41), first automobile (p47)
• Colonel Bernt Balchen papers, 1906-2004

  Biographical material, articles, correspondence and photographs of an aviation pioneer and artist. Balchen was born in Tveit, Norway, 1899. Trained in the Norwegian Army and later volunteered for Finland's White Army. A top athlete, Balchen was a member of Norway's Olympic boxing team and set records in cross-country skiing and bicycling. He joined the Royal Norwegian Naval Air Force, graduating in 1921. Assisted in Amundsen attempted flight across the North Pole in the dirigible "Norge." Richard E. Byrd asked Balchen to join him in the United States as a test pilot in 1927. In 1948, he began a serious study of water color painting techniques and achieved critical acclaim for his works. Awarded the Air Force distinguished Service Medal (1956) and a special Congressional Medal for Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928-1930). Enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame.
• Anton Christian Bang sermon, 1908

  A sermon preached in Minneapolis by the visiting Norwegian bishop and church historian. At the request of the bishop, proceeds of the sale of the pamphlet (16 p.) containing the sermon were to be used for the relief of the poor Norwegians in Minneapolis. Includes: framed photograph of Dr. Bang (profile), ca. 1900.
• Albert O. Barton papers, 1916-1940

  A journalist, author, and public official, Barton wrote extensively about early Wisconsin pioneers, often in his column in the Madison Capital Times. Includes clippings about Barton; a pamphlet of poems, Lincoln Kissed Her and Other Verses (1931); typescript and printed articles about Knud Langeland, the Weborgs of Door County, Martin Tollack, Caroline Osmundsen, Bertol Wernick Suckow, Martha J. Holland, Gunhild Jackson, and East Koshkonong church; and a bibliography of Barton's published writings (1927) and "Norwegian Books Owned" (1925).
  
  Includes clippings about Barton; a pamphlet of poems, Lincoln Kissed Her and Other Verses (1931); typescript and printed articles about Knud Langeland, the Weborgs of Door County, Martin Tollack, Caroline Osmundsen, Bertol Wernick Suckow, Martha J. Holland, Gunhild Jackson, and East Koshkonong church; and a bibliography of Barton's published writings (1927) and "Norwegian Books Owned" (1925). Added Dec. 15, 2015: The Beginnings of the Norwegian Press in America (State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1916)
• Mark Bastoni article, 1980

  "Horror on Smutty Nose," by Mark Bostoni, in Yankee, March, 1980, gives the account of two sensational murders on Smuttynose Island (Isles of Shoals), Maine, 1873, committed by Louis Wagner, a fisherman. The victims were two sisters-in-law of John Hontvet, an 1868 immigrant from Norway, who had befriended Wagner. Hontvedt's wife was in the house at the time of the murders, but managed to escape. See also, "Ole Bull and the Isles of Shoals" by Einar Haugen, in Haugen papers, P0545, box 7.
• Julius B. Baumann papers, circa 1916-1923

  
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  • Correspondence, undated
    • Letters to and from Carl Sund, editor and importer, and Ole Olsen, poet, both living in Norway.
  • Clippings, undated
    • Typescript of tributes at Baumann's funeral by Henry P. Petersen, Waldemar Ager, Olav Redal and others. "Soenner af Norge" (Nov. 1923). Four page transcript "Soenner af Norge," (Sept. 1924): about monument to Baumann; speech of A.J. Myrland at its dedication; John Heitmann's and Ager's remarks; letter of thanks from family. Bibliography note: issue of "Nord-Norge" was mostly devoted to Baumann (Autumn 1923). 
  • Poems and manuscript, undated
  • Three Scrapbooks titled "Stottegalskab I Reform," undated
    • Each filled with clippings
• Quarum family history, 2009

  Ancestors and Descendants of Torger Olsen Nerbye and Kari Hansdatter Lien: A family from Fluberg, Søndre Land, Oppland, Norway by Howard D. Baumgart. Named Quarum and Olson in America. Self-published, 2009. Third Edition, compiled by Howard Baumgart.
  Formerly part of P539.
• Richard Beck papers, 1927-1954, 1976

  Abstract
  Papers, 1927-1954, 1976. Correspondence, clippings, and pamphlets of an Icelandic-born professor of Scandinavian languages and literature at the University of North Dakota.
  
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  • Clippings and pamphlets
    • Icelandic literature and government, Olav Haraldsson, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, and Johan Falkberget, K. Hamsun, Gunnar Gunnarsson, Anders Hovden.
    • Includes Beck's poem, "Salute to Norway," which was read at a patriotic rally in Grand Forks, North Dakota (April 27, 1942) addressed by H.R.H. Crown Prince Olav…"
    • Other published works: "Norway's Martyr-King and Saint" (n.d.); "The Icelandic Millennial Celebration" (n.d.); "Grimur Thomsen--A Pioneer Byron Student" (1928); "Gisli Brynjulfsson--An Icelandic Imitator of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (1929);
    • Book Reviews: Idealist and Cynic review of "Seven Days Darkness" by Gunnar Gunnarsson (1931);
    • Translation of God and the Soul, by Einar H. Kvaran translated from Icelandic, published in the 1931 Spring Number of the Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota.
    • "Iceland's Contribution to World Literature" reprint from the Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota, Spring and Summer 1932-1933.
    • "Bjornstjerne Bjorson - Poet and Leader of Men" reprint from the Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota, 1932-1933.
    • Grand Forks Herald, "Norwegians Honor Memory of Bjorstjerne Bjornson", December 4, 1932.
    • Clipping from the Sons of Norway May 1933, "Professor Richard Beck, en trofast og vel rustet stridsmann for norskdommens sak." in Norwegian.
    • Poem "Julekveld" published 22 Dec. 1933 in the Decorah Posten (photocopy).
    • "The 17th of May and Norwegian Youth" clipping published in 1934, Grand Forks newspaper (in English).
    • "Norway's Day of Days" clipping published May 1934 in Grand Forks Herald.
    • "Knut Hamsun, Norwegian Author Still Great at 75 Years", clipping published in Grand Forks Herald July 29, 1934.
    • "Our English Language Department", clipping published in the Sønner av Norge, January 1934 in English.
    • "En Islænder leder det skandinaviske Arbeide ved Nord Dakota Univ." published 30 June 1935 in Skandinaven in Norwegian.
    • "Forfatteren Johan Falkberget" clipping published July 16, 1934 in Norwegian.
    • "Iceland's Poet Laureate", The Friend, November 1937 in English.
    • "Nord Dakotas Statsuniversitet feirer 55 aars Jubileum", Grand Forks Skandinav, August 19, 1936, in Norwegian.
    • "Vigeland og Snorre Sturlason", Grand Forks Skandinav December 23, 1938, in Norwegian.
    • "Gunnar Gunnarsson, An Icelandic Master of the Novel", The Friend for December 1939, in English.
    • "Johan Falkberget Fyller 60 Aar", Sønner av Norge, December 1939 in Norwegian.
    • Correspondence from Dr. Rögnv. Petursson dated 13 December 1939 in Icelandic.
    • "Iceland's Poet Laureate [Einar Benediktsson]", Grand Forks Scandinav December 29, 1939 in English.
    • "Professor Richard Beck, Fra Fiskergutt til Professor og Doktor i Filosofi", Grand Forks Skandinav, June 7 1940 in Norwegian.
    • "Dikterpresten Anders Hovden", Grand Forks Skandinav, December 20, 1940 in Norwegian.
    • "Et amerikansk universitet som staar Norge nær..." clipping Normanden, October 28, 1943 in Norwegian.
    • "Prominent Sons of Norway Man [T.H.H. Thoresen] with cover letter dated April 17, 1950.
    • "Norwegian American Historical Association Observes 25th Anniversary" published in the School of Education Record October 1950.
    • Program, The University of North Dakota Convocation, November 29, 1951. Correspondence, to J. Jergen Thompson of St. Olaf College, dated December 13, 1951.
    • Thank you letter.
    • "Icelandic Americans" Member of the Month, The American-Scandinavian Foundation, April 1954, Vol III, No. 4.
    • "The Lone Eagle", reprint of poem originally published in the Minneapolis Tribune, inspired by Charles Lindbergh's historic non-stop flight across the Atlantic, May 1927.
    • "Lincoln in Marble", poem reprinted in the Minn. Posten, Sept. 9, 1976.

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• Gretchen U. Beito papers, 1955-2021

  Biography/History:
  Gretchen Beito is the author of "Coya Come Home," "Tales of the Secret Earth River," "From Agassiz to Zeh," and five Scandinavian doll books.. She earned a Master's degree in history at University of North Dakota.

  Scope and Content: 
  Publications written by Gretchen Beito, along with research notes, clippings, and articles on Coya Knutson.