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Diaries kept from 1884-1886. Gunderson was from Kenyon,Goodhue County, MN. Diaries are informal and present a vivid picture ofthe "dailyness" of life for a student and beginning teacher. File containsbiographies of Lauritz Torkildson Westvelt & August Thomas Westvelt, photocopies of photographs, obits (Hans P. Gunderson. File also contains amanuscript of family history/Goodhue & Rice County genealogy.
Various correspondence to Signe M. Marton of Bloomington, Illinois. Much of the correspondence is with family in Norway.
Clausen emigrated from Norway in1923, and settled in Illinois. Her brother, Morton, served as Editor andPublisher for the Hamilton Press in Hamilton, Illinois. In 1971, Clausenvisited Norway (transcribed letters included) for the first time in 48 years.Scanned photographs saved to CD and printed. Added January 25, 2010:40+ letters exchanged with family members in Norway (1971-1984). 13specific folders. File 6 (Alden W. Clausen, President of Bank of America).Folder 8 includes postcards: Somers, Montana; boat excursion at FlatheadLake, Montana; winter logging with sled; exterior and interior postcards ofNorwegian Lutheran Church, Somers, Montana. File 11: postcards: GreatNorthern Railroad over Flathead River at Coram, Montana; Christmas;Thanksgiving; Hudson River from West Point Battery; Boating by Moonlighton the Missouri River near Great Falls, Montana; Mauritania Cunard Liner;romantic; Statue of Liberty; winter scenery; Daughters and Sons of NorwayHall, Seattle, Washington; Rapid City, South Dakota American Legion paradeheld in Omaha, Nebraska (Bison pulling float); real photos of familymembers: man standing with fishing pole and 22 fish. Added Sept. 15,2015: Marton, Signe Clausen and Patricia Marton, ed. A Journey to aBeloved Country (2015, Received electronically and subsequently printed).Excerpted letters written during the summer of 1971 while revisitingNorway for the first time since emigrating in 1923 from Bø, Nordland, Norway.
Original letters from siblings Jenny and Asbjorn Jacobsen. Includes the book: "Brev Fra Brooklyn, 1923-1940" by Kirsten Limstrand: A group of four siblings emigrated from Salten in Nordland to America in the period 1923-1927. The book is based on many hundreds of letters to and from the siblings. The book is a family story, but at the same time gives a picture of how life and business behaved for most people in Brooklyn at this time.