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Anna Christine Lovise (Prytz) Tangjerd memorabilia, 1825-1943
Verses written by family members for special occasions in the life of her family. A five-page manuscript verse inscribed to her, 1st Dec 1943, is the only American production. The others (except for one in manuscript) are nicely printed, some in Bergen or Oslo, and often meant to be sung to familiar tunes. There are verses on the silver wedding celebration (April 24, 1902) and the golden wedding celebration of Pastor and Mrs. A. F. W. J. Prytz; their 30th birthdays; and the brudeparret Loftfield, 21de juni 1927. Mrs. Tangjerd was born in Mo i Rana, but after her father's early death was brought up by her maternal aunt (Mrs. Prytz) and husband, and took their name. She emigrated when 19 and married Pastor Peder Tangjerd in 1890. File also includes business card of Paul G. Peterson (donor of this collection).
Also includes: 100+ Letters (1885-1936)between Anna Christina Lovisa Isaacson Prytz Tangjerd and Milda Prytz; and several letters between brothers Peder & Lauritz Tangjerd. Collection includes a CD with scans of each letter, plus additional family images and manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and compiled family histories. Additionally, several artifacts: a piece of silk from the wedding dress of Mrs. Prytz, sister of Ole Tobias Olsen (c. 1825); and two silk scarves given as baptisms gifts. -
Marjorie Marie Kimmerle dissertation, 1938
Norwegian Surnames of the Koshkonong and Springdale Congregations in Dane County, Wisconsin, a University of Wisconsin, Department of English, Ph.D. dissertation that deals with the influence of the Norwegian environment on the original names and the influence of the new American environment in changing those names. It is the first study of the Norwegian surname as a family name with reference to its local social background. -
Barbara M. Dalby article, 1973
"Illinois Records in the Norwegian-American Historical Archives," Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly, volume V, no. 2, pages 99-100. -
Oluf O. (Moksnes) Olson papers, 1847-1891
Olson emigrated from Trondheim in 1858 via Quebec and Chicago, arriving in Hudson, Wisconsin, August 14. Papers consist of photocopies of selected portions of a daily journal, July 1880-January 1886, and April-May 1891. The complete journal with a 10-year gap in the middle continues to 1935. Copies of military documents dated 1847-1854; and a copy of a letter from A. Eggen, Trondheim, 1873. -
Norse Discovery and Exploration of America articles, 1838-1909
A continuing file containing reprints and photocopies of articles, book reviews, excerpts from books, and other materials concerning a controversial topic. -
Gustav Elwood Johnson dissertation, 1940
"The Swedes of Chicago," a University of Chicago, Department of History, Ph.D. dissertation. -
Emil Lauritz and Helle Margrethe Mengshel papers, 1908-1944
Helle Mengshoel (1863 [?]-1929), a daughter of Pastor Jonas Wessel Crøger, emigrated to Minneapolis about 1893. With her second husband, Emil Mengshoel (1866-1945), who emigrated in 1891, she published from 1903 to 1925 Gaa Paa, proclaimed to be the only Norwegian-American newspaper representing the Socialist party. The title changed to Folkets Røst in 1918. The collection consists of photocopies of letters to Norwegian Socialist leaders Christian Holterman Knudsen, Olaf Kringen, and Carl Jeppesen. One letter is from Helle Mengshoel's son A. O. Devold, an attorney who was a contributing editor to the newspaper and served in the Minnesota legislature. Also, a collection of clippings that treat both the Mengshoels, including obituaries. See "Emil Lauritz Mengshoel: A Norwegian-American Socialist," by Odd Steinem Granhus in Essays on Norwegian-American Literature and History, Oslo, 1986.
Includes: photocopies of 3 newspaper articles (1929, 1945); photocopies of letters (1908-1925) to the Norwegian Socialist leaders Christian Holtermann Knudsen (Mrs. Mengshoel wrote Knutsen) (1845-1929), Carl Jeppesen (1858-1930), and Olav Kringen (1867-1951). One letter from Mrs. Mengshoel's son A. O. Devold, an attorney who was a contributing editor to the newspaper and served in the Minnesota legislature. File also contains photocopy of article Seeks Senate Seat Through False Pretenses, submitted, printed, published, and circulated by A. O. Devold (ca. 1918?).
Clippings from Hansen collection. Includes: various newspaper articles (original and photocopy), all in Norwegian, except 1 in English, including obituaries of both E. L. and H. M. Mengshoel; an article by Carl Søyland; Personlige erindringer om Amerikas mest berømete humorist -- Mark Twain, by E.L. Mengshoel, Nordisk Tidende (Jul. 23, 1942); two articles (July 27, Oct. 8, 1930) from Minneapolis Daglig Tidende on a world language; an article on Devold from Tidens Tanker with a picture of Senator Olaf Devold (May 1921); several 1929 articles about Helle's father, Jonas Wessel Crøger (a pastor in the Church of Norway who attempted colonization in Brazil in the 1850s); clippings of poems by E. L. Mengshoel, including Under Poppeltræet (1930), Canto Omesso (1943) -- a canto on the Radio Curse to supplement Dante's Inferno -- Versenkt?, Sammarsnatt ve Mjøsa, En Wessel-episode, En Landflygtigs Hjemve; editorial cartoons from Gaa Paa! (Jan-May 1904); photocopied photograph (from newspaper?) of A. O. Devold. File also includes typed copy of Under poppeltreet with edits (6/17, 1930); handwritten note by Helle bewailing sudden disappearance of her son and his wife, and begging them to return or let her know where they are; photocopy of sections about Gaa Paa and Norske blade i Sioux City, Iowa -- which mentions E. L. Mengshoel -- from Norsk-amerikanernes festskrift 1914, ed. Jahs(?) B. Wist., Decorah, IA, Symra company. -
April Rose Schultz dissertation, 1991
"'A Peculiar People': Celebration, Historical Memory and the Creation of Ethnic Identity among Norwegian American in the 1920s." "This study...analyses the Norwegian-American Immigration Centennial, a national celebration, as a strategic site for the invention of ethnicity. Through this celebration, Norwegian Americans constructed their own, though quite contested, vision of the past and the present, a social and cultural construction that both accommodated and resisted dominant Anglo-American conceptions of assimilation." A revised version was published by the University of Massachusetts Press, 1994, as Ethnicity on Parade: Inventing the Norwegian American through Celebration. A Minnesota History review (Winter 1996-1997) of the book is included.
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Neil Allen Hofland genealogical charts, 1932
A reproduced copy of Jon Laberg's Aardal i Sogn: bygd og ætter, 1932, 520 pages, with a translation of this work on facing pages by Hofland and his parents Carl John and Joyce Elida (Danielson) Hofland. The file also includes 31 pages of genealogical charts; a 10-page preface; and short papers that treat naming conventions, weights and measures in old Norway, Norwegian currency, some Norwegian words and their meanings, farms in Aardal and their subdivisions, and a detailed map of Aardal. -
Ola Hanche-Olsen papers, 1908-1995
Tidevann; Sandefjord gutten som ble en av verdens største dirigenter, a biography or a documentary novel by a nephew of the director and composer Ole Windingstad based on information Hanche-Olsen garnered from his parents who visited Windingstad, from letters Windingstad wrote to his sister, and from extensive reviews, reports, and critiques that had appeared in Norwegian-American newspapers. Windingstad was born May 18, l886, at Sandefjord, Norway. After studies in Oslo and Leipzig, he settled in New York in 1906. He was director of the Nord-mændenes Sangforening in Brooklyn from 1911 to 1939, but also led many other choral, orchestral, and operatic groups in the New York area, including visiting musical organizations from Norway. He conducted the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra for four years. He made orchestral arrangements and composed a number of pieces. His most notable symphonic work may have been "The Tides." He died June 3, l959. The file also contains 35 clippings, a 1922 concert program, and a 1923 letter.
Includes:- photocopy of Ola, Hanche-Olsen, Tidevann: Sandefjordgutten som ble en av verdens største dirigenter, a private publication, intended (for the time being) for a restricted circle…number 11 of 12, 264 pp. (1989). 1989
- Book. Clippings on Windingstad. Includes: news clippings (1910-1955), most in Norwegian, about Ole Windingstad, including Bravo! Ole Windingstad! (at that time conductor of The Greater New Orleans Symphony Orchestra); The Times-Picayune (Jul. 12, 1943); Who Is This Sinatra? Phooey on Jazzicians! (Fri. Aug. 13); Windingstad Conducts Grieg's A-Minor Concerto at Poughkeepsie (Nov. 11, 1948); article about Windingstad and Percy Grainger at Carnegie Hall, Nordisk Tidende (1953). Many of the articles contain pictures of Windingstad. File also contains copy of Ole Windingstad Sandefjordgutten som ble berømt amerikansk dirigent, The Norseman (Nov. 1995), pp. 30-33; Wetlesen, Anton, Ole Windingstad, copy of part of text about Windingstad, Norden (Jan.(?), 1931); Synopsis, Grand Norwegian Concert, in Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Scandinavian Symphony Orchestra, The United Scandinavian Singers, Ole Windingstad, Augusta Tollefesen, Erik Bye, Nora Fauchald (Feb. 26, 1922); letter to Carl Hansen (letter says Hansen) from J. A. O. Stub re: Windingstad's merits and the possibility of his coming to Minneapolis (Jan. 15, 1923). 1910-1995
- Book. Clippings about Skandinavisk Musikforening (conductor: Windingstad). Includes: 4 newspaper clippings (in Norwegian) (1908). 1908