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A brochure, prepared by Halvor Nordbø, welcoming the Berglands to Telemark, Norway. Includes information about Bergland's Norwegian ancestry and about the Bergland farmstead in Telemark. Bergland, a former Minnesota congressman, was Secretary of Agriculture at this time.
Newsletter and other papers of an organization, founded by Neil T. Eckstein in 1973, which sponsors literary and educational projects clustered around American Studies. The academy publishes monographs in an Ethnic Heritage series and a magazine, "The Winchester Academy Round Table."
Copy of a "Norwegian Immigrant Drama, The Sloopers," written by Mrs. Storwick and presented in Silvana, Washington, 25 October 1975, as a part of the Norwegian-American Sesquicentennial celebration.
Papers of a minister in the Methodist Church. Includes biographical information, letters, clippings, articles, and celebrations of his 100th and subsequent birthdays (1924-1988). Also includes videotapes of a television program about Schevenius (1987), and writings on Norwegian-Danish Methodism in Minnesota, 1850-1943 (1973).
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Biographical information, letters, clippings, articles, and celebrations of his 100th and subsequent birthdays (1924-1988).
Videotapes of a television program about Schevenius (1987).
Writings on Norwegian-Danish Methodism in Minnesota, 1850-1943 (1973).
List of source materials available in the State Historical Society at Madison, Wisconsin, which relate to Norwegian Americans, made by a graduate student of history at the University of Wisconsin.
Autobiography of a Norwegian-born retired school superintendent, for a time superintendent of Ebenezer Home in Minneapolis (1946-1962). Includes descriptions of his childhood and youth in Norway, his emigration to the United States in 1913, his school days at Jewell Lutheran College and St. Olaf College, his experiences in both World Wars, and his work in the Iowa schools and at the Ebenezer Home. He retired to Northfield, Minnesota, in 1962.
Letters addressed to Mrs. Nels U. Person, Columbus, North Dakota, from relatives in Norway, and one from her mother, dated Montevideo, Minnesota. Many of the letters are undated and fragmentary. These letters were found in an abandoned farm house near Columbus in August 1966 by John Paul Rhinehart of Amarillo, Texas.
Copy of a pamphlet, "Minder og erfaringer," published in Copenhagen, dealing with a Norwegian immigrant family in Wisconsin, who brought up one son to become a physician in a Seventh-day Adventist health care institution and four to become Seventh-day Adventist ministers.