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• Columbia Lutheran College papers, 1911-1915

  Bulletins, photographs, clippings, catalogues (1911/12 - 1914/15) and reports of an Everett, Washington, academy founded in 1909.
• Commercial fisheries articles, 1940-1980

  Articles (mostly photocopies) about commercial fisheries off the Pacific coast of North America, in which many Norwegian-Americans participated.; Lokken, Harold. "The halibut fishing, an important industry developed by Norwegians." Trønderlagets aarbok, 1940-41, pp. 76-82.; DeArmond, Robert N. "pioneers of the halibut fleet." Alaska, the territorial magazine, October 1946, pp. 16-17.; Page, Don. "Alaska king crab boom." Seattle Post-Interlligencer, August 16, 1964, pp. 9-11.; "The Alaskan king crab industry."
  
  Alaska: review of business and economic conditions University of Alaska, Institute of Business, Economic and Government Research. November 1965, pp. 2-8.; Larssen, A.K. "From other harbors: Petersburg, Alaska: meaningful progress." The Fishermen's News, February 1975, pp. 3,8 ",,,From the ‘long, long ago.'" September 1977 pp. 5,18 "…From the saga of the Pacific cod fishery." February-March1980 (4 parts).; Chadwick, Susan. "They make their fortune fishing for king crab." Alaska Journal of Commerce, March 3, 1978.; Page, Don. "High stakes on high seas." Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 27, 1978, B-7. "Record king crab harvest in Alaska." Seattle Times, December 29, 1978.; Ramsey, Bruce. "Alaska crab rush brings gold from sea." Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 13, 1979, pp. 1-10.; Loven, Pamela S. "NW fishermen reeling from slashing of king crab prices."
  
  Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Sept. 24, 1980.; Arestad, Sverre. "The Norwegians in the Pa;cific Coast fisheries." The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, January 1943, pp. 3-17. (and as reprinted in Washington Posten, March 26, 1943.; Article "adapted from Oil and water: the struggle for Georges Bank, by William H. MacLeish, Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1985. "Incomplete copy, no author, title, source, pp. 107-110.
• Concordia College Language Camps records, 1973-1995

  Papers about the Camps/Villages associated with Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, many regarding Skogfjorden, the Norwegian Language Village. See also in St. Olaf Library, "Skogfjorden: Ethnicity and a Contemporary Foreign Language Camp," a thesis by Margit Lea Myklebust presented to the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, December 2003.
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  Concordia College papers, circa 1891-1979

  Biography/History: 
  Concordia College was dedicated as a private academy on October 31, 1891, by a group of approximately one dozen Norwegian pastors and laymen who had recently settled in the Red River Valley. The school was founded on the property of the former Episcopalian Bishop Whipple School, which had closed in 1887. The school is associated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

  Scope and Content: 
  Brochures, catalogs, clippings, journals, programs, reports, and history.

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  Congregations records

  Printed and typescript histories, constitutions, programs, yearbooks, and records of some 400 Norwegian-American churches, filed alphabetically by state and city (or county).
• Connie Giddens family history, 1996

  No description available.
• Conrad J. Hansen papers, 1919-1949

  Choosing a Life-Work, an account of how the author became interested in the YMCA, an organization he served from 1919 to 1949, after having served as a member of the 77th Division of the A.E.F. during World War I. He is the son of the well-known editor of the "Minneapolis Tidende," Carl G. O. Hansen.
• Corelius Olson and Carrie Nelson family history, undated

  No description available.
  Formerly part of P539.
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  Cornelia Cleophas Bjorlee papers, 1901-2003

  Biography/History: 
  Cornelia C. Bjorlee was born in Kensett, Iowa, and in 1911 studied music in Vienna, Austria, under Otokar Sevcik until 1914. At the outbreak of World War I, Cornelia returned to the U.S. and continued her studies at the Juilliard School of Music from 1915 to 1916. Cornelia married Ignatius Bjorlee, who graduated from St. Olaf College in 1909. She helped her husband with his work at the Maryland School for the Deaf in Frederick, Maryland. The couple retired to their farm in Albert Lea, Minnesota. He passed away in 1968, and she moved to Northfield, Minnesota, in 1978.

  Scope and Content: 
  Correspondence, pamphlets, clippings, and photographs that document the life of Cornelia C. Bjorlee. 

• Corneliussen family history, 1947

  "Records of the Family Corneliussen"