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Collection includes a photograph of an unidentified nursing staff, ca. 1920, 2 Christmas letters, 1949 & 1956, the former recounts her trip to Norway, and an inscribed book, "Norway Calling" (Oslo, Norway: Mittet & Co, ca. 1945).
Blagen, Emma L. (1895-1983) Collection. Blagen lived most of her life in Decorah, Iowa. She was employed by John Longstreet Photograph Studio and the Decorah Meritol Co. The collection includes diaries kept between 1934 and 1978, family letters and postcards, 1913-1960s, and 150-plus family photograph negatives (scanned & printed), ca. early 1900s.
Tvedt Family Letters (585 photocopies, 1883-1894). Correspondence between Johannes Tvedt and two sisters, photocopied clippings from the Skandinaven newspaper regarding the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago, and research regarding artist Norwegian-born sculptor, Kristian Schneider, who was Louis Sullivan's primary modeler. Tvedt apparently lived with Schneider and his wife for some years before returning to Norway.
The diary begins when Bergendahl leaves New York Harbor as a cabin boy on the S.S. Capto. He observes his 16th birthday en route to the Far East. Later in life, Bergendahl went on to a successful ship chandler business in lower Manhattan.
Turn of the Century: The Lives and Times of My Norwegian-American Grandmothers by Martha Norem (126 p.). Details lives of Halvorson's and Chrislocks of Wanamingo area, Goodhue County, MN.