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• Karl Olsen writings, 1992

  Two volumes of "Selected Writings of Karl Olsen," edited by Stephen Olsen. Karl Olsen, born in Valley City, North Dakota, briefly attended St. Olaf College. Before the age of twenty, he tramped through Japan, Manchuria, Mexico, the Soviet Union, and Europe. Olsen served as an intelligence officer in the Pacific during World War II, and later assigned to one of the first detachments of the U.S. forces to enter Berlin in 1945. After the war he co-founded and served the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
  Formerly part of P539.
• Kahrs family history, 1923, 1967

  Includes:
  "Stamtavle over familien Kahrs" by Thora Sollied Kahrs, Bergen, 1923
  "Family Kahrs," translated by Elizabeth Kahrs Pennell, 1967
  Citizenship papers for Nikolas M. Nelson dated Oct. 13, 1893, Whatcom County, Washington
  Formerly part of P539.
• Anna and Anders Petterson letters, 1884-1889

  "Ephraim Is My Home Now," letters written to the parents of a young minister and his wife who had been sent by the Moravian Church in Germany at the request of the Provincial Elders Conference, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, as "suitable" for work among the the Scandinavian members of the Moravian Church in Door County, Wisconsin. Anna was Danish and Anders was Swedish. The letters, translated and edited by a granddaughter, Lucille Petterson, were published in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, volume 69, number 3 through volume 70, number 2, 1986-1987.
• Immanuel Lutheran Church history, 1872-2022

  150th anniversary of Immanuel Norwegian Lutheran Church in Barrett, Minnesota.
• Hans Ronnevik collection, 2004

  Novel, "100 Percent" by Hans Ronnevik translated by his son, Jorolf Tysver Ronnevik in 2004. The original book was written in 1926.
• Oral History

  Rolf and Inez Rude interview, 1995 September 8

  "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."
• Torrey Savereid letters, 1942-1944

  Torrey Savereid entered the armed forces with a background including being the son of a Norwegian immigrant, a Norwegian Lutheran and coming from rural Iowa. He had met a young Norwegian-American woman (Marjorie Thronson) who was working in Minneapolis before he left overseas. The letters tell of his early history (and life in the trenches) while the overseas courtship continued through war-time censorship and V-mailletters.
  
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  • 10 folders of correspondence between Torrey Savereid and Marjorie Savereid..
  • "My Love is Always Yours: The World War II Letters of Torrey Savereid, 194s-1944" by David W. Thronson.
• Rollag family history, 2009

  Rollag From Norway to Minnesota: The Numedal Valley Immigrants and Their Families, compiled by Dennis K. Herbranson and Maxine Lee Shulstad (Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD, 2009). Topics include: immigrants and particularly the community of Rollag, Minnesota. Short essays on the following topics: immigrant ships, name changes, the tine, the plow, the spinning wheel, smallpox inoculation, the bible, the fiddle, the sawmill, the trunk, isolation and sorrow, Red River Oxcart Trail
  Formerly part of P539.
• Celia and Linne Thompson correspondence, 1906-1976, 2014

  100+ original letters, spanning the years 1906-1976, which were used as the basis of the book by Lester Swenson, These Two Are Champions: A chronological book of facts, history, letters, pictures and interviews about the lives of two amazing women [Celia (1884-1978) and Linnie Thompson (1884-1979) from Radcliffe, Iowa]. Celia served as a missionary and teacher in Madagascar, and Linnie worked as a nurse and family caregiver.
• I Couldn't Milk Another Goat: Goodbye Norway - Hello Minnesota

  The story of Carrie Kirkeeide Thorson (1878-1974) leaving Norway in 1903 to move to Minnesota. Written by Paul Stephen Arneson. "Why did a young Norwegian lady take this trip knowing she would likely never see her family again? Why Minnesota? What was Minneapolis like in the early 1900s? How did she and her husband and children fare during the Great Depression? What were the hardships they suffered during World War II? How did she keep her sanity outliving four of her five children?"