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Letters from relatives and friends in Norway to an immigrant from Heddal who came to Chicago in 1924. He was an active member of Bondeungdomslaget, Leikarringen, Heimhug, and the Chicago Norske Theater. A brief sketch from "Vinland," December, 1965, is included.
First organized as the Norwegian Academic Club at the University of Minnesota, the name was changed in 1957 to include other Scandinavian students. The purpose of the club was to encourage mutual assistance and fellowship among the students in the group.
Gleason's Pictorial (September 11, 1852) which includes an article about the collision on Lake Erie between the steamer "Atlantic" and the propeller-driver "Ogdensburg." The donor, Bruce Weaver, discovered that his great-great-great grandmother, Marit Rødvang, and her family, miraculously survived the shipwreck. An article about the 1852 collision was written by Abraham Jacobson, and was featured in the 1902 issue of the Decorah Postin about Marit Rødvang and the family's harrowing journey to America. Approximately 500 people were on board the Atlantic and only 200 were rescued. Also, "Forgotten Shipwreck, Recovered Memory," by Bruce Weaver (Budstikken, May, 2006). Added Aug. 18, 2015: "Awful Calamity! The Steamship Atlantic Disaster of 1852," by Justin Wargo (Wisconsin Magazine of History, Winter 2014-2015).
A Hovedfag thesis submitted to the Dept. of Modern Languages at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Trondheim, November, 2005. Soft-cover, 198 pages.
Her thesis attempts to answer the question of what kind of contact or relations existed between Norwegian-Americans and Jewish-Americans in North Minneapolis and the general quality of their relationships. The author observes that the Minneapolis public schools and high school clubs and organizations were successful in bringing the greatest number of ethnically diverse groups together.
Thirty diaries kept by Heggem from 1880-1912 (missing 1882 and 1888) [Diaries in English]. Heggem was born in Strand, Norway in 1848. According to records at the Stavanger Friends Church [Quaker], Stavanger, Iowa, Heggem immigrated to the United States in 1859. He was a minister in the Friends Church as well as a farmer. Diaries detail Heggem's exotic travels including San Francisco (present at the 1906 earthquake), Hawaii, Tahiti, New York, Australia, New Zealand, Pago Pago, and American Samoa.
Thesis presented for B.A. at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. "Growing Up Norwegian: The Early Years of Inga Appelseth Johnson and her life on the Minnesota Prairie, 1902-1925" (2005). Inga's parents (Johan and Johanna Skarstein Apalset) immigrated in 1884 to Yellow Medicine County, Clarksfield area.
Established in 1921 and composed of Norwegian born women and American women of Norwegian descent, met monthly to study Norwegian culture, music and to continue the Norse language. Mrs. Helen Egilsrud, first president. A membership of 75 was maintained.
Includes program booklets and by-laws (1949-1989); clipping scrapbook; minutes (1968-1983); clippings; paper on the Progressive Literary Club, "Den Progressive Literare Klub" by Barbara Davidson (1991)
Founded in 1928 by a group of Swedish graduate students at Harvard (Phillips Brooks House). Purpose of the society "To strengthen the friendship and understanding between the United States and the Scandinavian countries and to promote the intellectual interests and good fellowship of its members." Monthly literary seminars offered through the Scandinavian Forum Seminar (reading group). Einar Haugen, member. During the 1970s, the organization was a member of the American-Scandinavian Foundation.