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• Svein Ellingsen hymnology, 1986

  "An Interview with Svein Ellingson," 20 pages, reported in The Hymn, April, 1986. The interview with the Norwegian hymn writer and translator took place at Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in August 1985.
• Oral History

  Tilla Thompson Ellison interview, 1995 September 6

  "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,” Lovoll interviews Andreas Rhude. Unprocessed This item is currently restricted."
• Habberstad and Knudsen family history, 2023

  Family history titled "From Oxcarts to Aeroplanes: The Story of the Habberstad and Knudsen Families of Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1818-1939." 
  
  Table of contents:
  

  1. Dedication
  2. Letter to the reader
  3. Chapter One: Ole and Margrethe Habberstad's Story
  4. Chapter Two: Ole and Serena Knudsen's Story
  5. Chapter Three: Olaf and Celia Habberstad's Story
• Lars Christian Endresen papers, 1975

  Biographical information and photographs concerning an immigrant from Christiansand who came to Hoquiam, Washington, in 1888, and who first found employment as a ship's carpenter. He became a shipbuilder and operated the Endresen Spar and Timber Company.
• Guri Olsdatter (Rosseland) Endreson papers, 1866-1951

  Endreson, Guri Olsdatter (Rosseland) (1831-1881). A heroine of the Sioux Uprising in central Minnesota, August 1862, Guri Endreson settled with her husband Lars and their children by Lake Solomon, north of Willmar, Kandiyohi county, in 1857. The Norway Lake settlement just to the north was the only large Norwegian colony in the Lake Park region before the Uprising. On Aug. 20, 1862, her husband and their oldest son and his wife were killed, the farm buildings burned down, and two daughters were taken hostage. The following day Guri emerged from hiding to find the wounded younger son, and managed to transport him and two wounded neighbors to safety 30 miles east.
  
  Included is the letter she later (Dec. 2, 1866) wrote to her family in Hardanger; typed transcription of the letter; and the English translation (with introd.) by Theodore C. Blegen, photocopy of article in Minnesota History, De. 1929, pp. 425-430.; Also, transcription of "Statement of Mrs. Gure Anderson" from History of the Great Massacre by Charles S. Bryant and A. B. Murch (St. Peter, 1872: in library collection, E83.86.B91.; Clippings (1907-1951) about Endreson and the Uprising and later observances. Includes souvenir programs (1933, 1941, 1960) of memorial observances held at Monson Lake Memorial Park, and information about the Endreson cabin now preserved on the Willmar fairgrounds. Includes memories of Mars. Halsten Olson; article by Agnes C. Laut (North Star, Dec. 1920, pp. 37-51); three installments of account published in Fergus Falls Ugeblad (1929); article by Martha (Aabye) Finney (Decorah Posten Aug. 4, 1936); article by Ole Paulson (Ungdommens Ven, July 1907). Added 2002: article by Deb Nelson Gourley about events near Belmont, Jackson co., Minn.
• Ole O. Enestvedt papers, 1932-1944, 2013

  Articles and clippings of a Norwegian-born Minnesota farmer. The clippings are a series on local history that appeared in "Sacred Heart News" in 1944. "De Forenede Staters Vrste Indianerkrig" (39 pages) deals with the Sioux uprising in 1862, as does "Intervju med Guri Endressen" by Gabriel Stene. The latter appeared in revised form in "Minneapolis Tidende" (January 19, 1933). The third article, which appeared in "Skandinaven" (January 1, 1937), concerns the snowstorm of January 7, 1873. Enestvedt wrote a column for "Decorah-Posten," "Norske Pionerslegter," and was editor of the Numedalslag yearbook for many years.
  
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  • Articles & Clippings
  • Manuscript Translations. Poetry clippings.
  • Added Dec. 4, 2013: Jacqueline Nasseff Hilgert, Seeds Sown Through Time: The Legacy of Johannes & Sis Enestvedt. Family and business history of Enestvedt’s Hybrid Seed Corn, Sacred Heart, Renville County, Minnesota.

  
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• Halvor Trogaton family history, 2008

  Family history titled "Descendants of Halvor Trogaton (born before 1600): Norway and America."
• Sigleif Engen article, 1962

  "Knut Olson Eia," the story of the life in Norway of an emigrant said to have come to America in 1821 with Cleng Peerson. Engen attempts to get at the facts about an obscure pioneer and to correct erroneous statements that have been made about him.The article appeared (in Norwegian) in "Ætt og heim," 1962, page 66-67.
• Bert J. Enger letter, 1923

  A letter to an employee by a Norwegian-American businessman while on a world cruise. Enger founded the Enger and Olson Furniture Company in Duluth and donated land for the Enger golf course and the Enger Tower. A park was also named in his honor.
• Ralph Enger papers, 1947-1949

  Papers of the founder and editor of "The Pacific Coast Scandinavian", consisting of correspondence and a history of the Norwegian Club of San Francisco, 1898 - 1946. The history (1947, 88 p. + 17 plates) deals largely with the social life of the Club, including the entertainment of such guests as Roald Amundsen, whose ship, Gjøa, the Club bought and gave to the city. A sketch of Andrew Furuseth; a list of officers, 1906 - 1946; an account of the voyage of the ship Gjøa; and the consitution and by-laws are also includes. Photographs of founder members; past presidents; "old-timers"; current members, also included. The correspondence deals with the work of Gjøa Foundation, founded in 1939, "for the preservation and upkeep of Roald Amundsen's Gjøa, famed for making the Northwest Passage 1903 - 1905." Includes a reprint of an article on the "Gjøa" by Erik Krag, which first appeared in the 'Pacific Marine Review', April 1949.
  
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  • Copy of the manuscript "The History of the Norwegian Club of San Francisco" by Ralph Enger, 1947
  • Pamphlet "An Account of the Perilous Voyage of the Ship Gjøa: her arrival in the Bay of San Francisco; the reception tendered to Captain Roald Amundsen and his crew by the citizens of San Francisco; the ultimate disposition of the Gjøa","designed and printed, in edition of 500 numbered copies by the Grabhorn Press for the Gjoa Foundation, January 1947. This is number 144."
  • Manuscript "The History of the Norwegian Club of San Francisco" by Ralph Enger, 1947
  • Correspondence of the Gjøa Foundation, June 20th, 1947 - May 4th, 1949. Includes brochures, "Introduction; articles of incorporation, by-laws, membership" (1978, 1993); program of "Syttende Mai lunsj, 1994"; photocopy of 1 sheet "Report on condition of finances...1906"; 2 p. typescript history, by Labadie; 4 p. account by Labadie, "Historian" (1993); list of members, and active members of the ladies auxiliary, 6 p. (1966)
  • Copy of book "The History of the Norwegian Club of San Francisco" by Ralph Enger, 1947