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Pauline Farseth papers, 1950-2006
Clippings about and letters to Pauline Farseth, who taught at North High School in Minneapolis and at an International Institute in St. Paul, and was active in cultural activities in the Minneapolis and St. Paul areas. She also translated Gro Svendsen's letters, which NAHA published as "Frontier Mother." -
Concordia College Language Camps records, 1973-1995
Papers about the Camps/Villages associated with Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, many regarding Skogfjorden, the Norwegian Language Village. See also in St. Olaf Library, "Skogfjorden: Ethnicity and a Contemporary Foreign Language Camp," a thesis by Margit Lea Myklebust presented to the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, December 2003. -
Cleng Peerson Memorial Institute papers, 1970-2013
Reports describing the activities and collections of the Institute: Norseman's World-Wide Emigration Archives, in Stavanger, Norway. The institute was established in 1970. -
Josephine Brack papers, 1907-1987
Papers of a St. Paul woman who was a leader in Norwegian-American organizations, especially in the Norse-American Centennial Celebration in 1925, the Norse-American Centennial Daughters of St. Paul, and the Minnesota Leif Erickson Monument Association. She held offices in all of these organizations and continued to sponsor an annual Leif Erickson celebration after the monument had been erected in 1949. She was also an officer in the group which administered Lyngblomsten Home for the Aged in St. Paul. The papers include some of these records. The above papers were donated by Mrs. Brack's daugher, Ione Kadden, St. Paul. A collection of the records of the Norse American Daughters of St. Paul was donated by Mrs. Brack earlier and has been cataloged separately.
Select materials from the Josephine Brack papers have been digitized and available online here. -
Scanpresence II Conference papers, 1977
Papers and miscellaneous correspondence of an "Action Conference on the Scandinavian Presence in America, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 6-8 October 1977."
Includes:- Conference group on Nordic society, research directory (1977)
- Individual responses by Norwegian Special Interest Societies to Dr. Carlton Qualey's questionnaire: S, folder 2 (1977)
- Individual responses by Norwegian Special Interest Societies to Dr. Carlton Qualey's questionnaire: S, folder 1 (1977)
- Dr. Carlton C. Qualey's comments and summaries on Norwegian Special Interest Societies (1977)
- ndividual responses by Norwegian Special Interest Societies to Dr. Carlton Qualey's questionnaire: A-M (1977)
- Miscellaneous correspondence and articles (1977)
- Individual responses by Norwegian Special Interest Societies to Dr. Carlton Qualey's questionnaire: T-Y (1977)
- Registration List (1977)
- Individual responses by Norwegian Special Interest Societies to Dr. Carlton Qualey's questionnaire: N (1977)
- Paper on the Calumet Bicentennial year by Arthur E. Puotinen (1977)
- Official Collection of Papers (1977).
- Proposal to the Task Force on Education by Nils Hasselmo and Gøran Stockenstrøm (1977).
- Proposal on folk high school courses by Kristian Hvidt (1977).
- Paper on Nordic music in the United States by Robert Karlen (1977).
- Paper on Finnish Unitarians by Ernest and Violet Knuti (1977).
- Paper on ethnicity by Duane R. Lindberg (1977).
- Correspondence (1977).
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Arlys Edman Thun papers, 1977
Typescripts of "The World of the Vikings," and an article, "The Red River Valley of the North," written by a former resident of the Red River Valley area. -
O. Myking Mehus clippings, 1931-1977
Typescript of a speech by O. Myking Mehus and clippings about him. He is a graduate of Augsburg College, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1916, and earned a Ph.D. degree at the University of North Dakota. He was President of the State College at Winona, Minnesota, 1939-1943, and was Chief of the Vocational Rehabilitation and Education Division, Veterans' Administration, St. Louis, Missouri, 1943-1963. He served as president of Hallinglaget, 1964-1969. In retirement, he became the owner of Old Shepherd's Book Shop in Branson, Missouri. See also P0236, about his father, Mikkel Mehus. -
Magny Landstad Jensen clippings, 1947-1978
Copies of clippings about a Norwegian-born poet who came to the United States in 1926, living first in New Jersey and later in California. She has written for newspapers and periodicals and has published "Girdle Stones," 1975; "Wilding Ballads," 1976; and "No Love is Lost," 1977; "Cookbook of Norwegian Recipes," 1947. Some of the poems are based on Norwegian themes. She is a great-granddaughter of the Norwegian poet and hymnwriter M. B. Landstad. -
Irving H. Highland papers, 1960-1970
Correspondence and other papers relating chiefly to the Society for the Preservation of Norwegian Culture, of which Mr. Highland was president. The Society was organized to endow a chair in Norwegian Studies at the University of Chicago. The Professorship in Norwegian was established at the University on 29 October 1961, after a gift of $100,000 had been received. -
Werner Bill papers, 1977
A Tale of the North, a story written by a retired businessman in Arcadia, Wisconsin. The tale is set in a Wisconsin village on the shore of Lake Superior in the early part of the 1900s. It concerns a boy who won a skating race and the blacksmith who sharpened his skates for him.