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Reports and miscellaneous papers of an organization serving seamen from all countries who come to the Port of Chicago. Interested Chicagoans of Norwegian descent have been prominent in the administration of the Center. Papers include general information, charter and by-laws, reports, board minutes, and correspondence.
Copies of family records from Norway consisting of vaccination, 1852, Lysaker (Akers-hus), apprenticeship (1871), conscription, and contract papers (1871) for Hans Christian Johannesen Schen, and a testimonial (1869) for Karen Olsen, who later married Hans Schen. Included are some John A. Miller (1856-) papers. His daughter became Dagny Miller Skoien. The translations are by Helen Fletre.
The file contains poems, correspondence, stories, and articles by Selnes, and biographical information about him. Of five collections of poems and stories, "Vestlandstoner" (1918) was the only work to be published in the United States. He contracted tuberculosis and spent some time in a sanatorium in Portland, Oregon. He returned to Norway in 1920 where he remained. See "En Amerikareise, med nedtegnelser av J. A. N. Selnes fra hans reise i 1906 og hjemturen i 1920", by Bjarne J. M. Selnes, Oslo, 1998, in the NAHA books collection.
Bright Patches: Growing up Norwegian in Shawano County, Wisconsin, by Norman Reitan and edited by Rolf H. Erickson and Wilbert S. Peterson, 1991, 108 pages. Reitan was a Madison, Wisconsin, attorney.
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.
Biographical data and articles by a Norwegian-American teacher at Northwestern University who was Director of the Institute for Language Disorders. His work with handicapped children earned him a national reputation. The institute he directed was a training center for teachers in the fields of deafness and language disorders.
Translation of a diary of an immigrant from Nes, Hallingdal, who homesteaded at Newfolden, Minnesota. The diary covers Lee's departure from his home, May 17, 1880, to his arrival at Spring Grove, Minnesota, a month later. Letters by a son and his postscript to the diary add biographical details.
Centennial edition commemorating the founding of the paper in 1879. Many of the accounts are about Norwegians who settled in the area: Ole Lien, Harald Thorson, the Reverend Gullick Erdahl, the Rock Prairie Lutheran Church, and the villages of Thorsberg and Erdahl.