Hei hei! NAHA is currently undating our archival catalog. Some finding aids are currently unavailable. Please contact the NAHA archivist with any questions.
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.
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.
Thirteen issues (1942-1943) of "The Viking," a mimeographed newsletter containing information about events in camp and news from occupied Norway with cartoons by Claus Hoie, and a collection of clippings about the 99th. The Viking Battalion, as it was also called, was composed of "men of Norwegian extraction, Norwegian nationals, and Americanized Norwegians," and organized for particular missions during World War II. The unit trained at Camp Ripley and Fort Snelling in Minnesota, and at a mountain skiing center at Camp Hale in Colorado. For a complete statement, see "Bataljon 99," by Gerd Nyquist, Oslo, 1981.
Papers of a Norwegian cultural and benefit society in Chicago, consisting of records, pamphlets, and photographs. Norwegian Society Nora was organized July 18th, 1860, re-named Nora Lodge No. 1, Knights of the White Cross in 1863. Merged with the Sons of Norway in 1938.