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Thoralf and Ruth Gundersen interview, 1995 September 9
In this series of interviews by Odd Lovoll for his books “The Promise of America: History of the Norwegian-American People” and “The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today." Celeste Holm was an American stage, film and television actress. Holm won an Academy Award for her performance in Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement, and was nominated for her roles in Come to the Stable and All About Eve Unprocessed This item is currently restricted. -
Thore Y. Heggem diaries and family papers, 1880-1976
Thirty diaries kept by Heggem from 1880-1912 (missing 1882 and 1888) [Diaries in English]. Heggem was born in Strand, Norway in 1848. According to records at the Stavanger Friends Church [Quaker], Stavanger, Iowa, Heggem immigrated to the United States in 1859. He was a minister in the Friends Church as well as a farmer. Diaries detail Heggem's exotic travels including San Francisco (present at the 1906 earthquake), Hawaii, Tahiti, New York, Australia, New Zealand, Pago Pago, and American Samoa. -
Thormodsgard family history, 1971
"A Tribute Honoring O.H. Thormodsgard" Prepared by J. Lloyd Stone and university friends. -
Thorpe family history, undated
No description available.
Formerly part of P539. -
Thorstein Veblen clippings and articles, 1920-2005
The clippings from newspapers and periodicals (1906-1993) include articles by Lyder L. Undstad: "Thorstein Veblen som Nordmand," "Veblen, Marx, klassekamp og filosofi," and "The Man and his Socio-economic Ideas." In addition are articles by Abram L. Harris, Ernest W. Dewy, David L. Miller, Carlton C. Qualey, Paul David Eastwood, Russel Bartley, and Sylvia Yoneda. For related material, see collectons of his siblings Andrew A. Veblen (P 598) and Emily Veblen Olsen (P 571). Max Lerner called Thorstein Veblen "the most creative mind American social thought has produced." Veblen was born near Manitowoc, Wisconsin, of parents who emigrated from Vang, Valdres, in 1847. In 1865 the family moved to a farm less than one mile north of Nerstrand, Minnesota. This home has been restored.
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- 2 books: Veblen, Thorstein, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (New York: The Modern Library, 1934); Dowd, Douglas, Thorstein Veblen (New York: Washington Square Press, Inc., 1964). Also includes Veblen Collections at Carleton College: Introduction and Overview, by Eric Hillemann, archivist, 19 pp. (ca.1997): Thorstein B. Veblen Collection, Veblen Family Collection, Veblen Farmstead Collection, Records of the International Thorstein Veblen Association. Also includes 2 copies of Veblen in Perspective: The Intellectual Heritage of a Native Son, September 24, 1994, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. Contents include: Program and Reading Materials, including photocopies of Carlton C. Qualey, Thorstein Bunde Veblen, 1857-1929, from Makers of an American Immigrant Legacy: Essays in Honor of Kenneth O. Bjork (NAHA, 1980); sections of The Portable Veblen (Viking Press, 1948); Veblen's The Russell Bartley and Sylvia Yoneda, Thorstein Veblen on Washington Island from International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society (Summer 1994).
- Articles, 1953-
- Includes: Harris, Abram L., Veblen as Social Philosopher -- A Reappraisal, in Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy Vol. LXIII, No.3, Part II (University of Chicago Press, April 1953), pp. 1-32 (article includes following note: This essay will appear substantially as a part of a chapter in the forthcoming book, Economic Theory and Social Reforms, to be published by Harper & Bros.); Dewey, Ernest W. and David L. Miller, Veblen's Naturalism versus Marxian Materialism, reprinted from The Southwestern Social Science Quarterly (September, 1954), pp. 165-174; Dewey, Ernest W., Thorstein Veblen, Radical Apologist for Conservatism, reprinted from The American Journal of Economics and Sociology Vol.18, No.2 (January, 1959), pp. 171-180, signed quote(With warmest regards, Ernest W. Dewey); Brodersen, Arvid, Industrialisering og samfunnsform, A propos en bok av Thorstein Veblen; 2 copies of The Carleton Voice (Fall 1980), featuring Veblen, with articles on Veblen (Thorstein Veblen, 100 Years Later; Thorstein Veblen, The Last Man Who Knew Everything, --Veblen and Women, --Veblen and Teaching, --Veblen and His Alma Mater, --His Place in History, --In His Own Words); programs for Veblen in Perspective: The Intellectual Heritage of a Native Son, A Symposium and Exhibition at St. Olaf & Carleton Colleges (September 24, 1994); Eastwood, Paul David, Seeking Thorstein Veblen, Presented to the Ygdrasil Literary Society, Madison, WI on October 10, 1992, 19 pp.; photocopy of notice in the Missouri Book News about publication of Dreiser and Veblen, Saboteurs of the Status Quo (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press), including summary of the work; photocopy of Audrey Wendland, Outcast Genius: Shy Norwegian-American left mark on social thought, in Viking (February 1996), pp. 18, 33; slightly edited version of The Early Life of Thorstein Veblen, a paper, by Prof. J. F. Balzer of Carleton College, which he read to the Rice County Historical Society in 1936, published in The Rice County Historian Vol. 25, No.2 (March 1999); photocopy of Grennes, Thomas and Einar Kvam, Thorstein Bunde Veblen and his family: Valdres to America, in Budstikken (December 2000). File also includes: a reprint of a photograph of Veblen, with verso marked Carlton C. Qualey, 100 Nevada St., Northfield, Minn. 55057; enlarged reproduction of photograph of Veblen.
- Clippings (1906-1993)
- Includes: Literatur: An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation, Minneapolis Sondag Tidende (May 27, 1917); Present Course of Business Enterprise in an Analysis: Thorstein Veblen on Absentee Ownership--The Cooperative Movement in Russia, by William MacDonald, The New York Times Book Review (Apr. 13, 1924); Veblen, Marx, Klassekamg og Filosofi, by Lyder L. Unstad, Minneapolis Tidende (Apr. 13, 1933); Thorstein Veblen som nordmand, by Lyder L. Unstad, Minneapolis Tidende (Feb. 14, 1935); An Analyst of Modern Society: In Thorstein Veblen and His America Mr. [Joseph] Dorfman Writes the Life Of a Thinker Who Has Had Great Influence, by R. L. Duffus, The New York Times Book Review; Thorstein Veblen's Social Vision: A Collection of His Essays, Clear and Penetrating in Their Ideas, Which Proves Him to Have Been at Times Prophetic, by R. L. Duffus, The New York Times Book Review (Sept. 30, 1934); Thorstein Veblen: The Man and His Socio-Economic Ideas, by Lyder Unstad, Nordisk Tidende (Jan. 31, 1933); The Grandfather of Technocracy, The Milwaukee Journal (Mar. 22, 1935); More Reflections, by Junius (Jun. 29, 1945); Trip of the Week: Washington Island: To the Edge Of the Map (Veblen quote(spent his summers and wrote the rought [sic] draft of some of his monumental treatises) on Washington Island) (Jul. 16, 1964); photocopy of The Genius Was a Jerk, by Robert A. McCaughey, The New York Times Book Review (Feb. 7, 1993); Thorstein Veblen and the New Barbarians: A cranky Minnesotan coins an economic term for the ages, by Peter Ritter, in The Rake Vol. 3, Issue 36 (Feb. 2005). File also includes clippings of obituaries for Veblen.
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Thorsten Olson family history, 1995
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Formerly part of P539. -
Thorvald A. Bjerk family history, undated
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Thorvald Anderson letters, 1883-1927
Letters from family and friends to an emigrant from Stavanger who came to Menekaunee, Wisconsin, in 1884. He moved to Iron River, Michigan, in 1899 and from there to Chicago. His last address was Prosser, Washington. He was engaged in various enterprises, including lumbering and mining. A summarized account of the letters was prepared as well as an outline of Anderson's family history. -
Thorvald Johnson biography, undated
Brief account written by a native of Kongsberg, Norway, who emigrated to the United States in 1870 and settled in Shawano County, Wisconsin. -
Thorvald Johnson family history, undated
No description available.