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Greeting Cards collection
An assortment of postcards for various seasons and occasions.
See also: Norwegian Picture Post Cards, P 274; G.E. Hafstad papers, P1018 -
Catalogues collection, 1877-1959
Book catalogues issued by Scandinavian-American publishers and bookstores.
Includes:- Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis, 1927-1959
- Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis, 1900-1929
- John Anderson Publishing Company, Chicago, 1877-1933
- Albert Bonnier Publishing House, New York, 1915-1929
- Anundsen Publishing Company, Decorah, 1888-1923
- Broderbaandet Publishing Company, Grand Forks, 1927
- C. Rasmussen Company (Skandinavisk Boghandel), Minneapolis, 1903
- Danish Lutheran Publishing House, Blair, Nebraska, 1895-1949
- Norwegian & Danish Publishing Society, Chicago, 1882, 1901
- Evangelisten Publishing Society, Chicago;
- Gammelt og Nyts Boghandel, Minneapolis, 1899
- Gyldendal Publishing Company, (Chicago office)
- Hauges Synodes Boghandel, Red Wing, 1908-1909
- J. T. Relling & Co.'s Boghandel, Chicago, 1878/79-1890
- K.C. Holter Publishing Company, Minneapolis, 1910, 1916
- L. H. Lunds Boghandel, Chicago; Lutheran Free Church Book Concern, Minneapolis, 1909-1913
- Lutheran Publishing House, Decorah, 1893-1916
- Nordisk Tidende Bokhandel, Brooklyn; Northfield Publishing Co.'s Boghandel, 1889
- Thyra Fjellangers Bokhandel Brooklyn, 1877-1949
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Ingrid Semmingsen papers, 1972-1996
Citation for an honorary degree, Dr. of Letters, St. Olaf College (1974), prepared by Kenneth O. Bjork; a review of Gudrun Hovde Gvåle's biography of Rølvaag and "A Shipload of German Emigrants and their Significance for the Norwegian Emigration of 1825"; "Etnisk historie i America," from "Heimen," no. 3, 1983; "Uppsalagruppen," a manuscript; "Til minne om Ingrid Semmingsen," by Sivert Langholm, in "Historisk tidsskrift," no. 3, 1996; and a collection of clippings. Dr. Semmingsen was professor of American history at the University of Oslo, specializing in the Norwegian migration to America.
Contents:- Articles
- Includes: Drøm og daad; utvandringen til Amerika. (Aschehoug, 1975) (another copy in library) "Amerika brev": talk given in Madison, sometime after 1975. Treats the "Lee letters, 115 in all ...1857-1925. The bulk of them date from the late seventies and onwards by two generations of emigrants" who emigrated from Hedalen, Valdres to Dane County., Wisconsin 19 p., photocopy of typescript and manuscript, with many manuscript revisions and insertions. Probably see America letters by Ole Andersen Lee, Mikkel Andersen Lee in America Letters collection. "Women in Norwegian emigration." 28 p. typescript, photocopy. "Peder Anderson of Bergen and Lowell: artist and ambassador of culture," by Eva L. Haugen and Ingrid Semmingsen. (American Norvegica IV, 29 p.) "Noen brevglimt av norske kvinners liv i Amerika" (By og bygd, v.30, 1985) pp. 209-214. "Nordic research into emigration" (Scand. J. Hist., 3:107-129, 1978) "Norwegian emigration in the nineteenth century" (Scand. Econ. Hist. Rev., viii no.2, pp.150-160. "Emigration from Scandinavia (Scand. Econ. Hist. Rev., xx no.1,1972, pp.45-60. "De tyske emigranter i Bergen, 1817-18 " (Bergens Historiske Forenings Skrifter, 77/76, 1976, pp.120-138. "A unique collection of America-letters in Norway" (Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, July 1984, pp.316-321. See also her article, "Family emigration from Bergen, 1874-92; some preliminary results of a statistical study" in Americana norvegica, vol. III (E.Haugen festskrift) E193.A6 v.3 (pp.28-63) 'LT7i. "Det norske Amerika: i fortid og naatid" (Kirke og Kultur,21, pp.321-345)
- Uppsalagruppen, 1996
- Conference papers--"The Lee Letters," undated
- "Women in Norwegian Emigration," undated
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Mildred M. Sebo narrative, 1954
A history of the Sebu-Myhre family, an account of the family's centennial celebration and of their first Christmas in America in Cedar Valley (1854), by a La Molle, Minnesota, resident. -
Esten E. Rear biography, circa 1922
A sketch of Haldor Ostensen Rye and his family of North Aurdal, Valdres, Norway, who emigrated to Wisconsin in 1852. -
Mathilde Rasmussen family history, 1945
"A Brief History of the P. A. Rasmussen Family" includes material on their Norwegian background; activities of parishes in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and Missouri; life in the Lisbon (Illinois) parsonage. -
Henry E. Rasmussen papers, 1910-1920
Letters to Rasmussen regarding the J. J. Hill gift to the St. Olaf College Endowment Fund in 1913 and the Peter Norbeck gift to the Augustana College Endowment Fund in 1920. -
Ole Glesne papers, 1851-1943
Correspondence, reports, and a scrapbook of a Lutheran clergyman. The correspondence and reports concern chiefly the activities of the board of publications of the United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, of which Glesne was a member. The clippings in the scrapbook are chiefly from "Norden" and "Amerika" and concern the controversies between the two newspapers regarding Ragnar M. J. Monrad at Luther College, the anti-Missourian movement within the Norwegian Synod, and politics in Wisconsin. The scrapbook contains letters and articles by Gisle Bothne, John N. Kildahl, Laur. Larsen, Ragnar M. J. Monrad, Herman A. Preus, and L. A. Stenholt. -
John W. Olsen autobiography, undated
The story of a Danish-born state superintendent of schools in Minnesota, a dean of the Agricultural College (Minnesota), and lecturer. -
Seth D. Charney biography, 1966
Biographical sketch of Minnesota-born Vilhelm Magnus (1871-1929) and his discoveries in the field of medicine.
Charney was a student at Yale University School of Medicine. Vilhelm's father, Morten Henrik Magnus (1833-1905 )emigrated 1868 and was a pastor at Arendal, Minnesota 1869-75. He returned to Europe and taught at the Hamro Latin School 1883-1903.Vilh. received a medical degree from the Univ. of Christiania and practiced medicine in Christiania. He died 1929. According to Charney he published in 1901 a classic paper on the hormonal substance progesterone.