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Philip Karl Boraas Lundeberg papers, circa 1940-2017
Born in Minneapolis into a distinguished Norwegian-American family (see papers of other Lundebergs), Lundeberg was educated at Duke University and Harvard University, where he was assistant to Samuel E. Morison. He was officer on the destroyer escort "Frederick C. Davis" when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat near the close of World War II. He taught at St. Olaf College and the Naval Academy, but most of his career was as a naval curator at the Smithsonian Institution.
He collected and donated papers of his relatives to NAHA, 1987-2003. Includes:- Abstract Ship Log in Historical Perspective of U.S.S. Frederick C. Davis, 1941-1945;
- German Naval Critique of the U-Boat Campaign by Philip Lundeberg, 1963, Military Affairs; Oral History Program from Naval Historical Foundation, 2003;
- Correspondence with Forrest Brown and Philip Lundeberg. Added Nov. 8, 2012: Philip K. Lundeberg, "Undersea Warfare and Allied Strategy in World War I (The Smithsonian Journal of History, Vol. 1, 1966).
- Lundeberg, Philip K., Arthur B. Cohn and Jennifer Jones. Tale of Three Gunboats: Lake Champlain’s Revolutionary War Heritage (National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 2017).
- In the spring of 1776, the Lake Champlain Valley became a pivotal location in the American War for Independence. The British invasion from Canada and subsequent battle for naval supremacy of this strategic waterway was critical to the Americans' eventual success in later years. With General Benedict Arnold leading the American effort, the combatants met on October 11, 1776, at the Battle of Valcour Island. This and other wartime encounters on Lake Champlain left behind a legacy of shipwrecks and an underwater archaeological collection.
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Norge ship clippings, 1904-2000
Clippings and other information about a Danish emigrant ship (Thingvalla Line) which sank June 28, 1904 after hitting Rockall (400 miles from the Orkneys) with the largest loss of life in the Atlantic before the sinking of the Titanic. Only 168 people of the more than 700 passengers and 68 crew were rescued; most were emigrants from Eastern Europe, with some from Norway. Contents.
Advertisement for book Titanic's predecessor: the S/S Norge disaster of 1904 (Bergan, Seaward Publishing, 2004) by Per Kristian Sebak; also for Sebak's book Titanic: 31 Norwegian destinies (1998) which gives information about the 31 Norwegian passengers on the Titanic, only 10 of whom survived. Correspondence (2003) between Eleanore B. Lundeberg (whose father's sister and family were lost) and Kevin J. Heath, who located the wreck and is working on a filmed documentary; and Philip K. Lundeberg and Paul Johnston. Photocopy of page in book The Atlantic ferry in the 20th century by F.R. Corsin (1921) describing the incident.
Photocopy of article in Feb. 4, 1939 New York Sun. copies of obituaries (1956, 1964) of Helmer and Karen Fosmoe, who survived the wreck. Copy of Lorraine Shearer's article in the Orcadian Features (Aug. 14, 2003), 13 p.; Added 2004: photocopy of article by Thor Bjarne Bore, (The Norseman, May 2004, pp. 43-47) reviewing Sebak's book. -
Garfield A. Stensland interview, 1985
An interview conducted November 5, 1985 at 7251 W. Thorndale Ave., Chicago, Il 60631 by Hazel Anderson. Includes a letter pertaining to his induction into the 1984 Senior Citizens Hall of Fame, and one of 1981 about the family of his grandfather Aanen Aanensen Stensland, of Jaeren. Born in Chicago, Garfield first worked in banks, but after study at Northwestern University he became administrator of the Norwood Park Home for the Aged in Chicago. He was licensed as a lay preacher, and was active in several male choruses. "In 1984 he received the St. Olaf Medal at Edison Park Lutheran Church for his outstanding service to the church and his community." -
Sverre Utseth articles, 1956
Articles on emigration from Trondheim which appeared in Arbeider-Avisa, June 2-23, 1956.; Contents: "Sophie's mislykte ferd i 1850 med trondere paa gullgraving; Blad om de tronderske utvandreres forste reis; Amerikaferberen faar form av en epidmie, Selbu og Meraaker blandt de bydene som ble tappet for mest arbeidskraft; Svenskene var et saerlig ettertraktet vilt for emigrantbetjentene i byen. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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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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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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.