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An album containing pictures from the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893, together with other pictures said to be from the early years in Humboldt Park, Chicago.
Includes a daily ticket to Exposition (Oct. 9, 1893). Includes photo of a Ferris wheel.
Correspondence, reports, and clippings of a Norwegian-born shoe manufacturer and merchant of Racine, Wisconsin. The papers deal largely with matters pertaining to the Scandinavian American Fraternity and the Sons of Norway, especially the latter's sponsorship of the Colonel Hans C. Heg monument. Letters include comments on the unemployment situation in Merrill, Wisconsin, during the 1930s. A copy of a letter (July 30, 1862) by Colonel Heg to James Denoon Reymert is also included.
Excerpts of letters that were published as a part of series titled "De gamle Amerika brev" in "Fædrelandsvennen," Kristiansand, 1975.
The letters to his family in Øvrebø were written by a mason contractor who came to Brooklyn about 1900 and established his own business. Many of the excerpts deal with the effects of the economic depression of the 1930s.
Letters written to a Norwegian immigrant living at Clinton, Wisconsin, in connection with her gifts to Opheim and Vinje Parishes in Vossestrand. The gifts were used for an old people's home in the Opheim parish and for a children's home at Voss. Each letter has an English translation. Also, "Ole Trondson Rong/Ole R. Tillerson; Martha Haavardsdatter Nyre; Christie Eriksdatter Slæn," by Terrance Hanold, edited by Ruth Hanold Crane.
Biographical information about a Norwegian-born artist, who came from Bergen to the United States in 1918. He established himself in Chicago and in Madison, Wisconsin, and became widely known as a fine portrait artist. Two of his portraits, those of President Lars W. Boe and President Clemens Granskou, belong to St. Olaf College. Charlotte Jacobson and Rolf Erickson collected information about him in 1976, and a report of Erickson's interview with Abrahamsen (4 October) is included. Catalog of an exhibit of paintings and drawings, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1943. Correspondence and clippings about Abrahamsen, 1926-1983.
Copies of letters and doucments (with some translations by Karl Schulz) of Christian Brisvold and Gunleik Bjornson, both of whom served in Wisconsin regiments in the Civil War. A covering letter explains why much of the materials is illegible. Benson was from Tinn, Telemark, and later lived at Laberton, Minnesota. Also includes a vaccination certificate for Tore Bjørnsdtr, Rollag, Tinn, 1832.
Data in "Omansposten" about a Norwegian sailor who spent nine years at sea, much of the time sailing between San Francisco and the gold fields in the Sacramento River area. He returned to Hamar in 1865 and became an emigrant agent, first in Hamar and later in Christiania (now Oslo).
Non-Migration and Migration in Twenty-five Hundred Families, by a physician at the Gundersen Clinic, La Crosse, Wisconsin. A statement in the preface reads: "One of the purposes of this study...is to throw light on the non-migratory families, their physical and mental illnesses." The study is based on clinical histories of patients seen by the writer over a twenty-year period (1950-1970). The patients come from Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Dr. Midelfort is the author of The Family in Psychotherapy, New York, 1957. Norwegian Families is an offprint from Etnicity and Family Therapy, 1982.