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• Andrew Gullixson papers, 1891-1959

  Papers of a physician at Albert Lea, Minnesota, who attended Luther College, Decorah, Iowa.
  
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  • Letters written to Gullixson while he was a student at Luther College, and after he was established as a physician at Albert Lea, Minnesota (1891-1920).
    • Correspondents are: J. E. Granrud, W. Sihler, Ludvig Hektoen, T. A. Rossing (his uncle), and S. Sondreson of Lillesand, Norway. Also a group photograph taken at Luther College c.1897; identified in the photograph are: Erling Bolhue, Alfred Marlehus, O. K. Omlie, Eli Lewison, G. B. Wollan, Andy Gullixson, Jake Stub, E. A. Boyd.
  • Speeches and clippings of T. F. Gullixson (brother of Andrew), President of Luther Theological Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota (1941-1959, n.d.).
• Christ (Kristen) Gundersen America letters, 1923-1934

  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.
  
  Includes photo newspaper clipping.
• Severin Gunderson papers, 1854-1947

  Correspondence and a statement regarding the doctrine of predestination by a Norwegian-born Lutheran clergyman, Mount Horeb, Wisconsin. Includes letters from George J. Fritschl and Thormod S. Kolste.
  
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  S. Gunderson Papers: Correspondence & Statement. Includes letters from George J. Fritschl and Thormod S. Kolste. See many articles about Gunderson in the Rowberg File (NAHA Archives)
  
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  Eleanor Iverson Gunlaugson papers, 1913-1980

  Pamphlets, pictures, scrapbooks, clippings of a Minneapolis physician, who was graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1934. She had practiced in different communities before returning to Minneapolis where she worked at well-baby clinics in the Minnesota Department of Public Health and was for a time a medical director at Northwestern Hospital.
  
  Includes a scrapbook about the 1939 royal visit to America by the Crown Prince and Princess of Norway, newspaper clippings, programs from events honoring them.
• Elise Margreth Cammermeyer Welhaven Gunnersen memoirs, 1844-1904

  Photocopies of pages 135-270 of the handwritten reminiscences of the wife of Professor Rud Gunnersen (1844-1904), who taught at Augsburg College, Minneapolis from 1874 to 1883. The memoir is a lively account of the interrelated lives of the Sverdrups, Oftedals, and Gunnersens, who occupied three apartments in the same house near the Augsburg campus. Elise Gunnersen found it difficult to adapt to life in Minneapolis, and her husband was not happy in his work at Augsburg. After leaving Augsburg the family spent a year at the Hauge Seminary in Red Wing, Minnesota. The Gunnersens returned to Norway in 1884, where Elise settled into a life that was more in accord with her background.
• Elise Gunnersen memoirs, 1844-1904

  Photocopies of pages 135-270 of the handwritten reminiscences of the wife of Professor Rud Gunnersen (1844-1904), who taught at Augsburg College, Minneapolis from 1874 to 1883. The memoir is a lively account of the interrelated lives of the Sverdrups, Oftedals, and Gunnersens, who occupied three apartments in the same house near the Augsburg campus. The location of the manuscript is unknown. Not at Augsburg College, Luther Seminary, National Library (Oslo).
• Gunnufson family documentary, 2007

  "The Gunnufson Family Documentary," created by Kent Gunnufson
• Ole and Peder G. Gunnulson papers, circa 1870-1933

  Papers consisting of correspondence, diaries, creamery reports, tobacco pool reports, tax receipts, and assessor's statements (1891) for Town of Christiana, Dane County, Wisconsin. The correspondence deals with farm interests in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, and Arvada, Wyoming, and also with the construction of First East Koshkonong Lutheran Church of which Ole Gunnuldson was architect and builder. The Gunnelson homestead, for occupied by Gunnul Olson Vindeg in 1840, is now (1962) owned by Martin Gunnulson, great grandson of Gunnul and donor of these papers.
  
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  • Correspondence and diaries, 1870s-1924
    • Includes financial records (1918 - 1919); diary (1910 - 1912); bills, receipts, and order forms; photo of the Gunnulson family gravestone; book of expenses (December 1912 - 1913); book of expenses (1908 - 1909); newspaper clippings referencing the Gunnulson brothers; promotional material for Martin Gunnulson in the 1959 Eastern Dane Assembly District elections; photo of the house built by Gunnul Olson Vindeg in Christiana.
    • Two photos, brief biography (1939); newspaper clippings in both Norwegian and English; Morgenstierne's talk in Minneapolis (1935); speech made in Minneapolis at the Sons of Norway 50th anniversary celebration (August 1944); pamphlet "Norway, an Active Ally" by Morgenstierne, published in the National Geographic Magazine (1943); speech made at the Annual Dinner of the Overseas Press Club of America, New York (1949); "Ambassador Wilhelm Morgenstierne: Noen artikler, taler og meddelelser til pressen, 9 april 1940 - mars 1944"
    • Letters and articles, 1898-1899
      • Includes 2 copies of "Kirkeraadets svar paa Pastor Harstads 'Aabent brev' (Suppl. To Evang. Luthersk kirketidende, April 12th, 1916, 30 p.); pamphlet "Pioneer Days and other events briefly sketched for the 75th anniversary of the Synod for the Norwegian Evang. Lutheran Church of America" by Rev. B. Harstad, (June 1928); "Letters and Articles on a Trip Into the Yukon Region" by Rev. Bjug Harstad, published in the Pacific Herald (1898), translated by Oliver Harstad (1955); newspaper clippings; maps.

  
  For further information see Aarbog Nr. 2 for Numedalslaget (195) 91 - 102 and Nr. 5, 127 - 130; also R. B. Anderson 'The First Chapter in Norwegian Immigration" (1890), 335 - 347. For photograph of Ole Gunnulson see D. G. Ristad papers (P582, box 4);they are standing in the chancel of the new East Koshkonong Church.
• Stephen Clifford Gutgesell essay, 1968

  An Immigrant Conflict: The Slavery Controversy in the Norwegian Synod, 1861-1869, a St. Olaf College department of history senior honors paper.
• Rev. Bernhard E. Bergesen letter, 1940 July 13

  Letter sent to Rev. B. E. Bergesen of Minneapolis, Minnesota, from King Haakon of Norway in July of 1940. The king had just fled to England and was living at Buckingham Palace. The letter is in his own handwriting and explains why he fled Norway.