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An interview with a Norwegian immigrant, conducted by Clarence Kilde for the "Minnesota Talking Book Calendar." Mrs. Tofteland emigrated in 1925 and became a busy farm wife and mother who found time to paint and write. She was a charter member of Agderlag and was its secretary for 24 years. Includes a biographical sketch and an obituary.
Copy of a "Dagbog over Atlanterhav" kept by a passenger on the ship "Thingvalla" during the voyage of July 27-August 14, 1882. A translation by Serena Bjornstad is appended.
"The Norwegian Fox Lake Settlement," the reminiscences of a Rice County, Minnesota, pioneer about the church life in the community and the building of a church, 5 pages typescript. The translation is by the Reverend A. J. Torgerson. A letter is included.
"Documentation of Traditional Music in Northern Wisconsin and Michigan," final report of an ethnic music project conducted at Northland College, Ashland, Wisconsin.
"Søren Jaabæk—Man for His Time," a paper presented to the Ygdrasil Literary Society, Madison, Wisconsin, by Judge Roang of the Rock County Court. Roang's grandmother was a cousin of Søren Jaabæk. The collection includes biographical data about Sverre Roang. The clippings concern Jaabæk and descendents, including a translation of a poem Jaabæk wrote upon the death of a grandson in the early 1870s in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. The file includes information about Jaabæk's son Peter (1841-1916), who emigrated in 1865. See also article on Jaabæk in "Nordmands Forbundet," September, 1932.
Reports about a Norwegian American who was Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Papers of a foreign sales representative for the American Gas Company of Albert Lea, advertisements for his company, travel routes in Norway, a folk high school annual report, and a petition protesting a proposed highway through the Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, area. Mrs. Knatvold's grandfather, Knut Olson Hastvedt, was a prominent citizen in the Blue Mounds area.
Includes Aarsmelding fraa Vestuppland Folkehøgskule (1906-1916); couple of "Norske Reiseruter" for Valdres and Sogn and the Bergen-Oslo Railway.
Clippings, correspondence, and diaries of a Norwegian-born riverboat captain who held master pilot licenses on the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi rivers. His story is more fully told in "Americans from Norway" (1950), by Leola Nelson Bergmann.
Correspondence with Mrs. Leola Nelson Bergmann (1947-1950); Information from Dorothy Warren (River reporter for "St. Paul Dispatch") (1941-1947); and diaries (1922-1950)
"Scandinavian Settlement in Iowa" and "The Norwegians in Iowa" in "Palimpsest," March, 1956 and August, 1959. "The Negro in Iowa" in "Studies in Iowa History." Bergmann is the author of "Americans from Norway" (1950) and "Music Master of the Middle West" (F. Melius Christiansen), 1944.