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Luther College (Canada) catalogues, 1961-1969
Information about an academy and junior college of the American Lutheran Church. The college courses were offered in affiliation with the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. -
John F. Hanson papers, 1888-1966
Notes on Life History, an autobiographical sketch (29 p., typescript) of an immigrant from Stavanger whose life was largely spent in the Quaker ministry. A partial autobiography (through 1910) kept by Estella Hanson Watland (1872-1950), whose entries expand upon her father's story at several points and also give a graphic description of her childhood, youth, and married life in Iowa, South Dakota, and Oregon. Hanson's book "Light and Shade from the Land of the Midnight Sun" (1903) is in the NAHA books collection. Emigrated with parents to Iowa (1856), to South Dakota (1879), to Portland, Oregon (1904)
Includes:- "Notes on Life History," (ca. 1903) an autobiographical sketch (29 p., typescript) of an immigrant from Stavanger whose life was largely spent in the Quaker ministry. Includes topics such as: Civil War and Quaker response; notes concerning Iowa yearly meetings (1865-1889) and movement to manage Indian [Native American] affairs under the Pres. Grant's Indian policy; "Recollections of the temperance agitation"; "Prohibition in South Dakota"; "Experience with the American Indians" mentions Wounded Knee Creek incident.
- Estella Hanson Watland. A partial autobiography (photocopied, through 1910) kept by Estella Hanson Watland (1872-1950), whose entries expand upon her father's story at several points and also give a graphic description of her childhood, youth, and married life in Iowa, South Dakota, and Oregon; includes obits for Henry Watland (1966) & Estella Watland (1950). Topics covered: "Prairie Fires in South Dakota" (1885); "A cow-pony named Bill"; "The Great Blizzard [Children's Blizzard] of 1888"; "Father helped the Indians [Native Americans] of Pine Ridge Reservation [South Dakota]"; temperance movement in South Dakota; Penn College, Iowa (1893); "Christmas Memories in South Dakota,"
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Olga Graff papers, 1876-1955
Copies of poems, letters, and clippings of a Norwegian-American journalist. Much of her work appeared in "Urd," a Norwegian women's magazine. The papers contain articles by her husband, Harald Graff, a medical doctor in Eau Claire, Wisconsin; drawings by her daughter, Gerda, an artist in Oslo; and items about her son Einar, who lived in Chicago
Includes:- Einar Graff, 1909-1917
- Harald Graff, 1876-1893
- Includes: "Tuberculosis of the Lymphatic Glands of the Neck and its Surgical Treatment," paper by H. Graff (read at the 43rd annual meeting of the Wisconsin State Medical Society, June 6, 1889); "A New Method of closing the canal in radical operation for inguinal hernia," by H. Graff (1894); "Antiseptic surgical precautions of special importance to the general practitioner," by H. Graff (1888); "What Today should be the standard treatment of Hernia, Truss or operation?" by H. Graff (1893); "Senn's Intestinal Anastomosis in operations for strangulated hernia," by H. Graff (1893); "Penetrating wounds in the Knee Joint," by H. Graff (1888)
- Gerda Graff, 1903-1955
- Includes: drawings by Gerda, an artist in Oslo; and items about her son Einar, who lived in Chicago. Includes clipping "I was Hitch-hiking to London," by Gerda Graff (1944)
- Olga Graff, 1888-1938
- Includes: obit (1938); article "Norge i Amerika og Amerika i Norge. Nordmandsforbundet og red. Hambro. Og ellers litt av hvert. ("Urd"); poem by Markus Thrane, "Finn Graff" (dated Aug. 28, 1887. On the occasion of Fin's birth. Thrane was in Chicago at that time); "To Olga Graff from Ethelyn Bryant Chapman. Christmas poem, 1925"; poem "View from the 'L'" [Chicago transit]; "Compensatioin" poem (1933); "Norsk Kunst i Amerika
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Boral Biorn papers, 1907-1995
Several works concerning the author's grandfather, L. M. Bjørn, and great-grandfather Nils Andreas Biørn: "The Leksvig Church—300th Anniversary," a translation, 4 pages. Nils Andreas Biørn served this Trondheim district congregation from 1850 to 1863. A biography of L. M. Biørn cast in the form of an autobiography, 1989, 108 pages. Supplementary notes: "L. M. Biørn and Gjermund Hoyme," and "L. M. Biørn as a Hymn Writer and Member of the Synodical Hymn Committees," 2 pages. See also Ludvig Marius Biørn Papers, P 1470.
Includes: Copy of letter from Ludvig Marinius Biorn, Zumbrota, Minnesota, Jan. 24, 1907, to his son Dr. Nils Andreas Biorn, Jackson, Minnesota. Dr. N.A. Biorn was the father of Boral Biorn. (In Norwegian) Added Dec. 1990 : A biography of Ludvig M. Biorn, by Boral R. Biorn (Mesa, Arizona, 1989) 108 p. Includes an "Introduction" (4 p.) with a translation of excerpts (written by N.A.B.) from the Journal of the Leksvig Parish; and an English translation of the above letter of L.M.B. (The biography is cast in the form of an autobiography.) Rev. Biorn gave a second copy in June 1995, with some passages highlighted in yellow: a note on p. 108 indicates these are "the areas that are authentic history" listed also on pp.109-110. It also includes two unnumbered pages: "L.M. Bjørn and Gjermund Hoyme" and "L.M. Bjørn as hymn writer and member of the synodical hymn committee," written Oct.-Nov.1993. See also in Ludvig M. Bjørn papers (P1470) Boral Biorn's "Three hymns of L.M.B.-I an essay." 1995. 32 p. Added Dec. 2011: translation of Norwegian newspaper clipping (May 6, 1992), "Wergeland Gift to the Folk Museum."; book and article translations by B. Biorn: "Church by the Fjord: Svenes Church on Strand 250 years" (edited by Jahn Børe Jahnsen, 1985) & "Aurdalskyrkja frå Lund sokn til Valdres prosti (Ivar Aars, 1987); article "Church Life in North Aurdal" (Kyrkjeliv nr. 3, May 1991) -
Art Exhibitions, New York, collection, 1924-1948
Copies of exhibition catalogs (1933-1949) of Scandinavian-American artists and of the Norwegian Art and Craft Club and a collection of related newspaper articles (1924-1944).
Includes: articles (1925-32) on the "Scandinavian American Artists" and its 1926 and 1932 exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum. Article (July 29, 1924) about exhibition of Scandinavian art planned for Brooklyn Museum; and articles ("Nordiske Tidende" June 22, June 29, 1944) about exhibition of Norwegian art at Wanamaker's Department Store, New York, opened by Crown Princess Martha. N.B. see also P1254 Norwegian Art and Craft Club. -
Texas Norwegians collection, circa 1854-2003
A file consisting of letters, clippings, articles, news releases, etc. concerning Texans of Norwegian ancestry who have achieved distinction in various fields. -
Erik Wahlgren article, 1980
The Norse Coin from Maine: Philology and Navigation, by an emeritus professor of the University of California, Los Angeles. It was published in "The Norwegian Numismatic Journal," March, 1980. -
Bjarne M. Thrane poems, 1937-1950
Typewritten copies of Norwegian and English poems written by an "old timer" in Ketchikan, Alaska. One poem, "Hilsen til Statminister Nygaardsvold," was published in "Sanger-Hilsen," March, 1943. -
Carl Swain memoir, undated
Autobiographical account of a Norwegian American who spent most of his life in educational administration. A graduate of St. Olaf College, class of 1907, he was given an honorary degreee by the College in 1940. Outline: boyhood on the farm (Roscoe township, Goodhue County; formal education (St. Olaf College). Mentions Siguard Sorenson; career in education; church administrator; mission work; politics -
Theodore G. Nelson biography, 1936-1957
Scrapbook Memories, a compilation (160 p.) covering family history and the experiences of a Norwegian American who was active in politics in North Dakota, where he was secretary of the Independent Voters' Association, which opposed the Non-partisan League. He moved to Oregon in 1933 where he became active in cooperative marketing, real estate, and retirement home movements.
Includes a campaign card and circular when Nelson ran for the Senate (1936). Biography outline: Church Chancels; Closing Curtain; Co-op Chores; Family Footnotes; Farm Frontiers; Norse Niche; People and Places; Personal Palaver; Political panorama; Realtors Realm; This and That; and What and Why