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Albertine Johnson cassettes, 1977-1978
Interviews with a Norwegian emigrant from Arnøy, in northern Norway, in 1917 to Duluth, Minnesota. She was cited by King Haakon VII in 1946 for her contributions to Norwegian work after World War II. The contents of each cassette is on the label. The interviews cover life in Norway, emigration, immigrant life in Duluth, and family history. A family history, by her son Rudolph Johnson, partly based on these interviews, was published in Nord Norge, June, 1994. A photocopy of the article is included. A more complete family history entitled "North Norway Ancestry," by Rudolph Johnson, third edition, 1986, is in the Family History Collection, P 539, box 26. -
Marit Rodvang biography, 1902
A copy of a clipping "En Pionerkvinde," a biographical note about Marit Rodvang, an emigrant from Vestre Slidre, Valdres, written by Abraham Jacobson and published in Decorah Posten, December 13, 1902. A translation is included. -
Kenneth Smemo bibliography, 1976
"Norwegians in North America," a Balch Institute reading list. -
William Solheim article, 1986
"The Decision to Emigrate: Adventure or Necessity," a paper based on the memoirs of Elling S. Solheim, who was born in Nordmøre in 1880 and emigrated in in 1904. The paper attempts to demonstrate emigration in terms of the "push and pull" theory. -
Anna T. Spafford papers, 1894-1930
Copies of letters written in 1894 to Abraham Jacobson, Decorah, Iowa, and copies of newspaper clippings (1897-1950) telling the story of the American colony in Jerusalem, which had been founded by Horatio Gates Spafford and his wife, who was born in Stavanger. Anna Larsen Spafford had come to Chicago with her family in the 1850s, where she continued to live until her departure for Jerusalem in 1881. Other members of the family had moved to Goodhue County, Minnesota, among them Edward Larsen (1838-1911), a half-brother. She is portrayed as Mrs. Gordon in Selma Lagerlöf's novel Jerusalem. Sven Hedin gives a sympathetic picture of the group in Till Jerusalem. Her daughter Bertha Spafford Vester published Our Jerusalem, an American Family in the Holy City. -
H.H. Strom records, 1896-1915
A receipt book and ledger showing receipts and disbursements in connection with the guardianship of the minor children of Martin Hermanson. Strøm was a State Senator from Hillsboro, North Dakota. -
Marilyn Priestly bibliography, 1980
"Comprehensive Guide to the Manuscript Collection and to the Personal Papers in the University Archives," compiled by Marilyn Priestly. Of special interest are the pages dealing with Norwegian Americans. -
Lorence Munson Woodside papers, 1888-1953
This extensive collection covers all aspects of Woodside's impressive career as educator, public speaker, author, translator, civic leader, and gardener. Born in Hamilton County, Iowa, the daughter of Norwegian emigrant parents, Sivert and Mesine Munson, she graduated from Highland Park Normal College at Des Moines in 1893. There were later studies at the University of Chicago and at Boston University. She was instructor in elocution at Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, Iowa, and the director of Physical Culture for the Iowa WCTU for a brief time.
From 1901 to 1927 she was employed by the Redpath Lyceum, Eastern Lyceum, and the Chautauqua system as reader and occasionally as manager. In 1909 she married Alonzo Woodside, a veteran of the Spanish-American War who also served in World War I. He later served as a superintendent in the inquiry section of the Boston Post Office. Lorence Woodside's interest led beyond a career in public speaking. She developed a cut-flower dahlia named the "Mrs. Woodhouse." Much of her energy was given to community service. She held offices in the Massachusetts Food Administration, 1918; the Advisory Council of Women at Massachusetts State College, Amherst, 1926-1953; Boston Rental Housing, 1951-1952; and many local organizations. Her trips to Norway in 1906, 1913, and 1926, the last as an Honorary Fellow of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, brought her into contact with Norwegian writers. Her major achievements in this regard were the translation of Sverre Brandt's "Sonja's search for the Christmas Star", produced by the New York Junior Players, December 1929, and the translation of Barbara Ring's "Peik", published by Little Brown in Boston, 1932. -
Katarina Thorwaldsen papers, 1892-1911
Katarina Thorwaldsen (born 1877 in Sandsvaer, Norway; died 1954 in Brooklyn, NY) emigrated from Norway in 1911 and settled in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, Theodore Thorwaldsen (born 1875 in Tonsberg, Norway; died 1969 in Brooklyn, NY) a ship captain, who had emigrated from Norway two years earlier. Katarina traveled to the United States with her young daughters, Esther and Eldrid.
Includes:
- Handwritten recipes and other handwritten material all in Norwegian. 8 notebooks dated 1892-1896.
- Sample of knitting and sewing
- Clippings
- Book titled, “Norge I Vare Hjerter” by Nordahl Grieg published in 1929.
- Affixed to the inside cover of this book is a handwritten letter in Norwegian, dated Julen 1942, signed by Haakon VII of Norway.
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Torrey Savereid letters, 1942-1944
Torrey Savereid entered the armed forces with a background including being the son of a Norwegian immigrant, a Norwegian Lutheran and coming from rural Iowa. He had met a young Norwegian-American woman (Marjorie Thronson) who was working in Minneapolis before he left overseas. The letters tell of his early history (and life in the trenches) while the overseas courtship continued through war-time censorship and V-mailletters.
Includes:
- 10 folders of correspondence between Torrey Savereid and Marjorie Savereid..
- "My Love is Always Yours: The World War II Letters of Torrey Savereid, 194s-1944" by David W. Thronson.