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Rev. Dr. Lauritz Larsen Memorial, An Appreciation by the National Lutheran Council, April 1923. As President and Secretary of the Council Dr. Larsen went to Europe following World War I to assist in releif work. His death, shortly after his return to the United States, was attributable to the severe strain under which he had worked.
Letters, clippings, speeches of a plant pathologist of the Wisconsin State Department of Agriculture, who was involved with efforts to preserve the American elm tree. In his retirement Mr. Hafstad came across a hand-written copy of "Sinklars Visen," of which he made a translation. Both the hand-written copy and the translation are in the collection.
Includes:
Stock certificate of The Duluth-Vermillion Mining Company (1910).
Letters from Hafstad's mother when he was in Monrovia, Liberia (1934-1935); a collection of 40 illustrated picture post cards (1909-1915).
Copy of the minute book of a Chicago women's reading club (Laeseklubben Glimt) which celebrated its 80th anniversary in 1979. The book opens with a brief history of the club up to 1906. A clipping about the 80-year-old club from "Vinland" is also included.
Letters and clippings concerning Joachim G. Giaver (1856-1925), a Norwegian-born civil engineer in Chicago, who received the St. Olav Medal from King Haakon of Norway in 1921. Included in the letters is one from a relative, Ivar Giaever, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1973.
A newspaper clipping from the "Richland Observer" and a paper, "History of Five Points, Norwegian Settlement in Township of Akan, Richland County, 1850-1947," written by Ruth M. Dobbs to fulfill an assignment in a course in Wisconsin history under Professor E. G. Doudna.
Clippings and notes giving biographical information about a Minnesota artist, some of whose paintings are of the Lofoten area in Norway, where her mother was born.
Copy of a letter to her niece Edna from a La Crosse, Wisconsin, woman, who emigrated from Kristiania in the 1860s. She apparently was a teacher in Chicago. An English translation of the letter and notes concerning the writer and her family are in the collection.
Translation of selected passages from the first 90 pages of "'Viking' fra Norge til Amerika," written by a member of the crew of the ship "Viking" which sailed from Bergen to the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893, under Magnus Andersen as Captain. The book was published in Bergen, 1894, and is in the NAHA collection in the St. Olaf Library. The translation is unsigned. A full translation of the book was made by Helen Fletre and edited by Rolf Erickson, Louise R. Miller, James O. Rugland, and Darrell F. Treptow in 1984. The book is also in the St. Olaf Library.
An illustrated brochure, "My Thanks to Scandinavia," covering the thirty-year career of a California woman who produced and narrated nine films about Scandinavia.
Copies of biographical data, concerning an emigrant from Nordre Fron, Gudbrandsdalen, who came to Brooklyn in 1882. He was the first president of "Nordmaendenes Sangforening" in Brooklyn.