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Workers Lyceum (Chicago) pamphlet, 1928
Anniversary booklet giving the history of a worker's organization in Chicago, earlier known as Branch number 1, Karl Marx, associated with the American Socialist Party. This group had its own meeting place called "Folkets Hus." Program from "Ten Year Anniversary Festival with Bazaar" (1928); Group photograph. -
Sorlandet ship papers and album, 1932-1933
Papers and album about the training ship "Slandet" which made an expedition to Chicago in 1933 as a feature of the "Century of Progress" exposition. Magnus Andersen had brought the Viking ship across the Atlantic to the Chicago Exposition in 1893.
Includes:- Leatherbound Album containing photographs regarding "Sørlandet" and the Norwegian Merchant Fleet (1933).
- Clippings, programs, and a copy of "The Viking March" (1933); "70 Years in Retrospect: On My Work on Sea and Land" by Magnus Andersen (1932).
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Nils A. Olsen catalog of papers, 1971
Nils Olsen was connected with the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1925-1935. Prepared by James T. Steensvaag, Iowa State University Library (10 February 1971). Includes a biographical note. -
Ethnic studies papers, 1972-1991
Papers relating to general ethnic studies and studies of specific ethnicities.
Includes:- Ethnic and minority studies reports from the University of Wisconsin System (1972-1973); The Novak Report on the New Ethnicity (1979); Other miscellaneous letters and reports.
- The Balch Institute: Historical Reading Lists (Immigration and Ethnicity, Irish, Swiss, French, Ukranian, Portugese, South Slavs; 1974-1975); "New Dimensions" newsletter (1980-1991).
- Newsletters: Minnesota Humanities Commission (1975-1991), National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs (1981-1985), The National Ethnic Studies Assembly (1974-1975), Wayne State University Ethnic Studies (1986-1988). Norwegian Source Materials, Ethnic Studies, prepared by Kenneth O. Bjork for a 1973 symposium.
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Reidar Stavseth articles, 1975
A series "I Midt-Vesten" which appeared in "Adresseavisen," a newspaper published in Trondheim, Norway, featuring Norwegian-Americans and their achievements in the Midwest. Mr. Stavseth travelled in this area early in 1975 and wrote the articles becue of the interest in the sesquicentennial of Norwegian immigration to America.
Subjects are: Sønner av Norge; Rapid City, South Dakota; O. E. Rølvaag; Decorah, Iowa, Luther College, and the Norwegian American Museum (Vesterheim); St. Olaf College; Snoose Boulevard Festival (Minneapolis, 1973, 1975); The Norwegian American Historical Association (NAHA); South Dakota Farms; Wall Drug, South Dakota; Black Hills, South Dakota; The "bygdelag" movement. -
Jeremias Rost Schefstad biography, 1974
Biography of a Norwegian-born violinist who emigrated from Norway in 1888 and came to Crookston, Minnesota, where he studied at a business school and worked as a clerk for the city. He continued study of the violin and spent the years 1894-1899 at the Leipzig Conservatory. He returned to Grand Forks, North Dakota, where he spent the rest of his life as a teacher and concert artist. He had been invited by Gustav Mahler to become concertmaster of a New York orchestra, an invitation which he turned down. He contracted tuberculosis and died in Arizona at the age of 41. -
Carlton C. Qualey papers, 1930-1988
Dr. Qualey, a graduate of St. Olaf College, was prominent in the affairs of the NAHA as writer, board member, and editor. After his retirement as Professor of history at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, he was associated with the Minnesota Historical Society, serving as editor of "The Immigration History Newsletter."
Includes:- Articles: "Pioneer Norwegian settlement in North Dakota" from "North Dakota Historical Quarterly" (1930); "Pioneer Norwegian settlement in Minnesota" from "Minnesota History Magazine" (1931); "The Fox River Norwegian Settlement" from "Illinois State Historical Society Quarterly Journal" (1934); "Pioneer Scandinavian settlement in Michigan" from "Michigan History Magazine" (1940); "Newer interpretations of American history to 1860" from "National Council for the Social Studies, Yearbook 17" (1946); "Territorial history: a bibliographical note" from "Minnesota History" (1947); "Recent scholarship and interpretations in American history" from "Social Education" (1951); "Immigration in American history" from "History Teachers' Club" (1963); "On being an ethnic historian" for Friends of the Library, Western Reserve Historical Society (1972); "Norwegians in the Upper Midwest: immigration and acculturation" for the Conference on Norwegian Influence in the Upper Midwest, University of Minnesota-Duluth, 22-24 May 1975; "Immigration to the United States since 1815" published in 1980, written for the Wuppertal Colloquium, West Germany, preparatory conference for the 1975 International Congress of Historical Sciences in San Francisco; "Racism, nativism and nationalism as factors in the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924" by Lillian Ray Bowman (1951) for a seminar in U.S. History taught by Qualey; "Ethnic studies and higher education" (1972). See also Qualey's article "A typical Norwegian settlement: Spring Grove, Minnesota" in "Norwegian American Studies and Records" volume 9, pages 54-66 (1936). NAHA published in 1938 his "Norwegian Settlement in the U.S.," for related material see P1000, Box 38.
- "An Academic Autobiography" (1986); copies of articles from the "Carleton Voice" (1970); clippings (1932-1988); Correspondence with NAHA (1960-1986); photograph of Qualey.
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Amandus Norman papers, 1884-1942
Papers of a Norwegian immigrant whose father homesteaded in Clay County, Minnesota. Amandus Norman was influenced by Kristoffer Janson and was trained for the ministry at Meadville Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. He served as Janson's successor at Nazareth Church in Minneapolis from 1893-1906, where he spent winters. During the same time period, summers were spent in Hanska, Minnesota, where, after 1906, he served the Unitarian congregation. He also spent some time as a journalist. -
Clyde Johnson article, 1973
An issue of "Inland" from the Inland Steel Company of Chicago, containing an article entitled "Saturday Night on the St. Mary's," the story of a Great Lakes oreboat, captained by Clyde Johnson, whose father, Harold A. Johnson, was also a captain. -
Seraf B. Holter pamphlet, 1968-1970
A pamphlet concerning the emigration of Seraf Holter's grandparents Christoffer Olson Holter (1827-1866) and Anna Holter (1827-1922) from Nannestad, Norway, in 1862 and their first years in America. They came on "Nordlyset" to Quebec, and went on to Koshkonong, Wisconsin; later to Fillmore County, Minnesota, and finally to Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. The pamphlet included information about Nannestad and Rundalen, Voss. Two sons became Lutheran clergymen and editors: C. C. Holter (Seraf Holter's father) and K. C. Holter, who founded the K. C. Holter Publishing Company in Minneapolis.