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Asmund Hvidston papers, circa 1889-1920
Records about Asmund Hvidston's family history. Also includes photographs and diplomas of Juliet Dyste. -
Batalden family papers, 1893-1920
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- Letters from Christian Batalden Meyer Batalden, 1893-1896
- Christian immigrated to the US from Norway in 1871. Meyer was born in Minnesota in 1873. While Meyer attended business school in Wilder, MN in 1893, Christian wrote to him (24 letters). All in Norwegian.
- Includes transcriptions.
- Highwater Lutheran Church, circa 1899
- Letters from the Norwegian Lutheran Church in America regarding synod business, notes which may be church council minutes, lists of members, and more. All in Norwegian.
- Includes transcriptions.
- Cassette tape, circa 1990
- A Norwegian friend translated the letters by reading them onto the tape.
- A 1900 catalog which was likely used to order furnishings and architectural items for the new church building.
- Letters from Christian Batalden Meyer Batalden, 1893-1896
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Lee family history, 1869-1980
"Lee family history: The descendants of Thorvald J. and Mathilda Lee (the history of North Dakota Homesteaders)" by H. Minerva Hogstad Norman and Alvin T.M. Lee. -
Karen Erikson Bakke history, 1950-1979
"Besta: A Story of North Dakota Pioneering," by Cyrene Bakke Dear, 2 copies. Topics covered: child's toy kettle (p1), Civil War and fighting against slavery (p2), bootmaker (p2), growing hops (p2), barn dances (p2), wagon train (p3-4), making of klub (p6), "mother as a midwife" (p6-7), grasshopper plague (p7), life at Fort Lincoln, near Bismarck, N.D. (p8), General Custer (p9), capture of Rain-in-the-Face (p11), Sitting Bull (p11), Goose River Settlement (p14), pregnancy (p15), death of infant to TB (p15), Rev. Bjug Harstad (p15), build hotel in Mayville, N.D. (p16), railroad magnate James Hill (p16), church practices (p19), threshing (p21), ailing husband and cure at Hot Springs, Arkansas (p22), Christmas 1892 (p24), Julebukk (p24), becoming an auctioneer (p26), alcoholism (p26), postpartum depression and near suicide/infanticide (p28), Rev. Rorvik (p30), raising peacocks (p33), awful storm with hail (p33), living in Hillsboro (p34), theaer in the barn (p36), circus comning to town (p36), first telephone (p37), mourning Pres. McKinley (p37), typhoid treatment--starving patient/liquid diet. Taboo of bananas (p37), killed by a train (p37), water tower collapse (p38), speaking English with a Norwegian accent (p41), first automobile (p47)
Topics covered: Civil War and fighting against slavery (p2), bootmaker (p2), growing hops (p2), barn dances (p2), making of klub, (p6) grasshopper plague (p7), life at Fort Lincoln, near Bismarck, N.D. (p8), General Custer (p9), capture of Rain-in-the-Face (p11), Sitting Bull (p11), Goose River Settlement (p14), pregnancy (p15), death of infant to TB (p15), Rev. Bjug Harstad (p15), build hotel in Mayville, N.D. (p16), railroad magnate James Hill (p16), church practices (p19), threshing (p21), Christmas 1892 (p24), Julebukk (p24), becoming an auctioneer (p26), alcoholism (p26), postpartum depression and near suicide/infanticide (p28), Rev. Rorvik (p30), raising peacocks (p33), living in Hillsboro (p34), theater in the barn (p36), circus coming to town (p36), first telephone (p37), mourning Pres. McKinley (p37), typhoid treatment--starving patient/liquid diet. Taboo of bananas (p37), killed by a train (p37), water tower collapse (p38), speaking English with a Norwegian accent (p41), first automobile (p47) -
Henry Bordewick papers, 1880-1940
Letters, documents, photos, and other items of an emigrant from the Lofoten Islands, who came to Chicago in 1864; here he enlisted in the Navy and served on a Mississippi River gunboat during the Civil War, after which he sailed on the Great Lakes for about three years. He came to Granite Falls, Minnesota, in 1872, where he held office as county auditor and as postmaster. In 1897 he was appointed to a consular post in Christiania, Norway, in which capacity he remained until his death Includes biographical data, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and family history information.
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- Biographical data. Newspaper clippings, correspondence, and family history information. 1912-1940
- Correspondence and documents. Newspaper clippings, correspondence, and documents from Norway and the U.S. 1890-1912
- 30 photographs, portraits, and postcards. Studios include Bordewich and Henrichsen, Henningsvær; H.L. Olson, Granite Falls; Finne, Kristiania; Selmer, Paris; Lind, Kabelvaag; Christensen, Christiania; Maartmann, Christiania; Steward, Granite Falls. 1880-1912
- "Walt Whitman" by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1900; stole from the funeral of William McKinley, St. Edmund's Church, Christiania. 1900-1901
- Includes programs, city guides to Oslo, invitations, notes, and correspondence. 1900-1923
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Karmsund papers, 1919-1969
Records and programs of a society in Chicago, organized by emigrants from Haugesund, Norway, to promote fellowship and to maintain ties with their homeland.
Includes: Records of meetings and 3 programs to events hosted by Karmsund, reports, and Ledger (1919-1940). -
Norsk Leseforening reports, 1898-1982
Records of a women's reading club in Chicago, founded in 1898 to foster continued interest in the literature of Scandinavia and particularly of Norway. At bi-weekly meetings, the members reviewed and read aloud parts of books which were being discussed. In addition, the club was often engaged in charitable enterprises with financial gifts to the Norwegian homes for the aged in the area and to the Chicago Day Nursery. Includes correspondence, letters to and from members, typically either Christmas letters or acknowledgements of donations.
- Correspondence
- Letters to and from members, typically either Christmas letters or acknowledgements of donations. 1978-1982
- By-laws and history. 4 photographs, Yearly reports, newspaper clippings, members lists, correspondence, and written histories of the organization. 1898-1952
- Raportbok, 1943-1948
- Account Book. 1914-1923, 1927-1940 , 1941-1982
- Secratarial Records. 1931-1936, 1937-1940, 1945-1948, 1955-1959, 1959-1963
- Reading and book circulation record, 1949-1982
- 1 gavel; microfilm reel; Leif Erikson memorial medal and certificate. 1900-1982
- Correspondence
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Lina Alsaker diary, 1886
Translation of a diary kept by a 14-year girl as she made the journey from Kristiania (now Oslo) to Stoughton, Wisconsin, via Castle Garden and New York in 1886. Translated by Christine Rypestol, 1984. The Norwegian version was published in "Migranten" v.2 (1989), Hamar, Norway. -
Ola Bjorland songbook, 1895
"Sanger" A compilation of 190 Norwegian folk songs, religious and secular, in Norwegian and English, compiled by the minister of the Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church in Chicago for use on informal occasions. -
George Tobias Flom articles, 1907-1949
Offprints of 42 articles and reviews published in The Journal of English and German Philology and other journals by a distinguished Norwegian-American philologist.
BOX 1:
- Folder: Clippings and biography.
- "The Lay of Thrym, or the Fetching of Thor's Hammer" from the Journal of American Folk-Lore volume XX, number LXXIX.
- "Place-Name Tests of Racial Mixture In Northern England" from Modern Language Notes.
- "On the Phononlgy of English Loan-words in the Norwegian Dialects of Koshkonong in Wisconsin."
"Alliteration and Variation in Old Germanic Name-Giving" from the Modern Language Club; January 20, 1934. - "Anglo-Norman Script and the Script of Twelfth-Century MSS in North-Western Norway" from Studies in English Philology.
Review on "The Place-Names of Cumberland and Westmorland" from Modern Language Notes. - "A History of Scandinavian Studies in American Universities" from Iowa Studies in Language and Literature number II; May 1907.
- "Old-Lore" from Modern Language Notes volume xxiii, number 6; June 1908.
- "The Noun Stems in the Didrekssaga" from The Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume IX, number 1; 1910.
- "The Scope of the Post-Positive Article in Olafs Saga Hins Helga" from The Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume IX, number 2; 1910.
- "Fragment RA.58 C. of Konongs Skuggsja: from an Old Norwegian Parchment Codex of the XIIIth Century, with Heliotype Copy and a Study of the Paleography and the Language" from The University Studies volume IV, number 2; March 1911.
- "Det norske sprogs bruk og utvikling i Amerika" from Nordmands Forbundet; May 1912.
- "The Phonologt of the Dialect of Aurland, Norway" from University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature volume 1, numbers 1 and 2; February-May 1915.
- "Scandinavian Studies: Presented to George T. Flom by Colleagues and Friends" containing a biography of George T. Flom.
- "Mål og Minne 1946"
"Et Norsk Hedersskrift I Amerika" from University of Illinois Press; 1942.
Review of "Ortnamnen I Göteborgs Och Bohus Län. IV. Ortnamnen I V. Hisings Härad. Göteborg, 1936" from Journal of English and Germanic Philology; January 1940. - Review of "Det Norske Landnåm på man (Marstrander)" from Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XXXVII, number 2; April 1938.
- Review of "Der Einfluss des Nördlichen Dialektes im Mittelenglischen auf die Entstehende Hochsprache" by Agnes Peitz and "Lingustica. Selected Papers in English, French, and German" by Otto Jespersen, both from Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XXXIII, number 3; July 1934.
- "The Edinburgh Fragment of the Old Norwegian General Law of King Magnus IV" from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XXXII, number 2; April 1933.
- "A Note on Semantic Borrowing in Old Saxon" by H. V. Velten, from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XXX, number 4; October 1931.
- "The Use of Small Capitals in Medial and Final Position in the Earliest Old Norwegian Manuscripts"; January 20, 1934.
- "The Study of Place-Names, with special reference to Norway" from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XXIII, number 2; April 1924.
- "Spirits, Black Elves, Fairies, and Giants in the Folklore of Aurland in Sogn, Norway" from the Journal of American Folklore; January-March 1949.
- "English Loanwords in American Norwegian: as spoken in the Koshkonong Settlement, Wisconsin" from American Speech volume I, number 10; July 1926.
- Review of "Egils saga Skallagrímssonar, nebst den grösseren Gedichten Egils" by Finnur Jónsson from Modern Philology volume XXIV, number 3; February 1927.
- "Breaking in Old Norse and Old English: with Special Reference to the Relations between them" from Language volume 13, number 2; April-June 1937.
- Review of "Norsk Rimsmålsordbok. Utarbeidet av Trygve Knudsen og Alf Sommerfelt" from The American Journal of Philology volume LVI, number 3;
- "Survey of the Study; Relation to Other Sciences; Major Problems of the Present." from Scandinavian Philology; January 20, 1934.
- "Studies in Scandinavian Paleography" from Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XVI, number 3; July 1917.
- "On the Phonology of English Loan-words in the Norwegian Dialects of Koshkonong in Wisconsin"; January 20, 1934.
- "Studies in Scandinavian Paleography" from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology; 1915.
"Old Norse Fránn, 'Gleaming', Orkedalen Dial. Fræna, 'to rain'. A Study in Semantics" from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XXV; 1926 (2 copies). - "Kust- och Skärgårdsnamnen I Göteborgs och Bohus län. I. Sjökortet Tjörn. Av Hjalmar Lindroth." from Modern Philology volume XXIII, number 1; August 1925.
- Reviews of "Festskrift til Amund B. Larsen paa Hans 75-Aars Fødselsdag, 15 Desember 1924." from The American Journal of Philology volume XLVII, number 1; January-March 1926.
- "English Loanwords in American Norwegian: As spoken in the Koshkonong Settlement, Wisconsin" from American Speech volume I, number 10; July 1926.
- "Some Dialect Names of Fauna and Flora in Strøm's Søndmørs Beskrivelse , I. 1762." from The Germanic Review volume I, number 3; July 1926 (3 copies).
- "Noa Words in North Sea Regions; a Chapter in Folklore and Linguistics" from the Journal of American Folk-Lore; March 1927 (2 copies).
- "The Place-Names of Lancashire" by Eilert Ekwall from the Journal of English and Germanic Philology volume XXIV, number 2; April 1925.
- "Norwegian Surnames" from Scandinavian Studies and Notes volume V, number 4; 1918.
- "Sun-Symbols of the Tomb-Sculptures at Louchcrew, Ireland, Illustrated by Similar Figures in Scandinavian Rock Tracings" from American Anthropologist volume 26, number 2; April-June 1924 (2 copies).
- "Figures of Ships and the Four-Spoked Wheel in Ancient Irish Sculpture" from American Anthropologist volume 25, number 3; July-September 1923 (2 copies).
- "Tunamål Words: Dialect of Stora Tuna Parish, South Dalarne, Sweden" from Scandinavian Studies volume V, number 8; November 1919.
Review of "Historische Grammatik D"
- "Mål og Minne 1946"
- Folder: Clippings and biography.