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An article by Dr. Marion Nelson, published in Sons of Norway "Viking," and a story in the "Minneapolis Tribune Picture Magazine" on Minnesota art, concerning Gausta, the first professional artist among Norwegian-Americans. Both clippings include reproductions of Gausta's paintings. Other clippings, including memorials and an article concerning Gausta as a photographer.
Welcome to Norway, First Permanent Norwegian Settlement in America, established 1834, a brochure prepared by the Norway Improvement League, Memorial markers and a Memorial Park in the area honor Cleng Peerson, who came with the first settlers to the county; "La Salle County Centennial Directory of Former Ottawa Residents, 1831-1931." Clippings and articles about the area are also included.
Materials relating to a society founded in New York as the Norwegian Engineers' Society of New York, Inc., which changed its name in 1969. Includes a history published in 1950 and one (edited by Erik J. Friis) in 1975. Membership lists, information about The Order of the Busted Atom, photographs, and correspondence about the 1956 and 1958 issues of its journal, "Norwegian American Technical Journal." For related material see: P1557, Norwegian American Technical Society, Northwest Branch; P0882, Chicago Norwegian Technical Society.
General information, reports, and photographs of a paper manufacturing firm which was founded by Dedrick W. Bergstrom, who came at the age of five to Menasha, Wisconsin with his parents from Christiania. He became a blacksmith, and later operated a stove works. In 1904 he purchased the local Winnebago Paper Mills, which is now the Bergstrom Paper Company, a producer of fine printing and writing papers from recycled waste paper.
Guide to the Holdings, compiled by David B. Olson. The Center is a regional repository of the Minnesota Historical Society and is affiliated with the Department of History, Moorhead State University.
Papers relating to an air conditioning company and its founder, Reuben Trane, son of James A. Trane, a Norwegian immigrant who came to La Crosse in 1864, and who started a plumbing establishment in 1885. The Trane Company was an early leader in the field of air conditioning.
Papers of the Norwegian Immigration Sesquicentennial which was celebrated in Norway and in the United States in 1975, one hundred and fifty years after the landing of "Restaurationen" in New York with the first shipload of Norwegian immigrants, the "Sloopers." In the United States five regional commissions had been organized with headquarters in New York. The others were Chicago, Ottawa, Illinois, Minneapolis and Seattle. To facilitate planning between these groups there was a National Coordinating Committee, which also worked with the committees in Norway. Celebrations in the United States included a great variety of church, cultural, educational, entertainment and sports events, all of which were given extensive newspaper coverage. The climax of the festivities came with the visits to each of the regional centers by King Olav V of Norway, 2-29 October 1975.
A newspaper clipping from the "Richland Observer" and a paper, "History of Five Points, Norwegian Settlement in Township of Akan, Richland County, 1850-1947," written by Ruth M. Dobbs to fulfill an assignment in a course in Wisconsin history under Professor E. G. Doudna.