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Norwegian-Canadian periodical publications, 1973
Correspondence sent from the University of Calgary's Research Center for Canadian Ethnic Studies. Includes a listing of Norwegian-Canadian creative writing authors, listing of book imprints of Norwegian-Canadian creative literature. -
Hans-Petter Grav dissertation, 2018
Vesterheim in Red, White, and Blue: The Hyphenated Norwegian-American and Regional Identity in the Pacific Northwest, 1890–1950 (Dissertation, Washington State University, 2018). 291-page unbound volume. Chapters include: “Norwegian Migrants and the Promise of a New Scandinavia”, “Race, Whiteness, and Nationalism Among Norwegian Americans”, “Seattle’s Celebration of the Norwegian Constitution Day”, “The Multorporean Birdmen and the Slat-Riders of the 1930s”, and “Marie Vognild Lund, Dorthea Dahl, and August Werner: the Art of Norwegian-American Cultural Creation.” -
Lois Rand journal, 1979 September-1981 December
A detailed daily journal kept by Lois Rand while her spouse, Sidney Anders Rand, served as the U.S. Ambassador to Norway, 1980–1981. She writes, “I was sure we would want to remember the process and the people involved if Sidney’s appointment actually came to pass, and I was equally sure we wouldn’t unless we had some help. So I began making notes of people, events, and anything noteworthy so we could remember.”
Also includes clippings and notes on the visit King Olav V in 1982. -
Esther Thompson postcard collection, circa 1900
Postcard collection was assembled by Aunt Esther Thompson born in Norway feb 15 1886. Passed away in Chicago in May 2 1976 at age of 86. sister of Jacob Ralph Fjeldheim. Includes two photos of Esther (1 with brother Ralph). -
Holden and Sorlie family history, 2020
Includes a publication by Jim Holden titled "Norwegian genes: A merger of the Holden and Sorlie families." Sorlie family records includes postcards and genealoy notes. Holden family records includes pamphlets, photograph, and clippings. -
Lorie Topinka collection, 2020
"Once and Forever: The Long Journey home from Alaska to Norway 1927" by Lorie Topinka, 2020. My grandmother, Agnes Johnson Steberg, kept a daily diary during a five-month family trip in 1927 from Ketchikan along the Pacific Coast through the Panama Canal on to New York and across the Atlantic Ocean to Norway and then returning to Ketchikan overland by way of Minnesota.I was fortunate to find her diary in a box of family memorabilia and then fascinated to read this carefully written daily record of a highpoint of family history-the only return trip to Norway that my Norwegian grandfather, Knut Lauritz Steberg, ever made after immigrating to America in 1905 at the age of 18. This is a simple story about a middle-class Norwegian-American family before the Great Depression and the Second World War that captures the customs of that era and the character of this family. -
Midwest China Oral History and Archives Collection, 1983
Oral history summaries: A guide to the collection published by the Midwest China Center, St. Paul, Minnesota. Collection includes abstracts by former St. Olaf faculty who were children of Lutheran missionaries to China. -
Emil Foster and Mabel Shaw family letters, 1933-1948
Letters from the Peder Emil Foster and Mabel Shaw family. The people in the collection of letters include: Harold Johannessen Skaug/Schau/Shaw, born in Norway. Francine Matilde Lange, wife of Harold Shaw, born in Mandal, Vestfold, Norway. Mabel Knot, adopted daughter of Harold and Francine. Her father and mother were Joseph Knott and Theresia Hartmann, Germans living in the eastern Czech Republic, known as Sudeten Germans. The parents were not mentioned in the letters. Peder Emil Fostvedt-Foster, husband of Mabel, born on december 2, 1884 in Sande, Vestfold, Norway. The name Foster was used in the United States. Peder Emil and Mabel's children: Harriet Shaw Fostvedt-Foster, born in Jersey City, News Jersy on November 6, 1918 (Married Herman Lee Parrish from Bethany, Oklahoma) Evelyn Beatrice Fostvedt-Foster, born in Jersey City, on March 19, 1920 (married Robert Wilson Mason from Tennessee) Frances Ann Fostvedt-Fostre, born in Miami, on July 25, 1932 (Married James Walton Debnam from Maryland) -
Ornes postcard collection, circa 1910
Various postcards sent around 1910. -
National Ski Association of America, 1892-2002
Miscellaneous materials about the Association (founded in 1904) and about Norwegian-American participation in the introduction and promotion of the "ski sport" in America generally.