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Newspaper items and some correspondence collected by a Norwegian American who lived in Minneapolis and had a varied career as a journalist, educator, federal government officer, and public relations officer for U. S. Steel.
The clippings cover his interests in Norwegian-American activities. He sat on a number of boards: Lutheran Brotherhood, Fairview Hospital, and St. Olaf College. Family clippings concerning Bjorgulv Bjornaraa (1878-1942, father of Dreng Bjornaraa); Thorwald Bjornaraa (1909-1985, Dreng's brother); Bud Bjornaraa (Dreng's nephew); Knut Helland (1880-1919); and Clarence C. Knudsen (1902-1987); Obituary of Dreng Bjornaraa; Correspondence of Bjorgulv Bjornaraa; Photograph of Dreng Bjornaraa at a NAHA banquet, 1919-1987; Correspondence of Dreng Bjornaraa, 1951-1981; Nordmanns Forbundet correspondence and clippings, 1951-1981; Norwegian American Sesquicentennial clippings, 1975; Bernhard Knudsen correspondence and obituary, 1927-1945; Olav, King of Norway, clippings, 1975-1976; Vesterheim clippings, 1965-1976; and Norwegians in the U.S. clippings, 1951-1986.
Papers and articles of a graduate student at the University of Minnesota studying the role of Norwegian Lutheran clergy in America. See also "Men of the cloth and the social-cultural fabric of the Norwegian ethnic community in North Dakota" (1980) in the St. Olaf Library (Originally a thesis, University of Minnesota, 1975).
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Papers and articles written by Lindberg: "'American Saloon' and 'American School': Immigrants meet the 'Beast' on the Upper Plains (A study of the attitudes of Norwegian Lutheran clergy toward American environment, their role in ethnic cultural maintenance and influence on institutional structure of Upper Plains society)" (5 May 1970); Perceived ethnicity among Lutheran pastors and parishes in North Dakota: an empirical guide for ethnic group action" (n.d.).
Papers and articles written by Lindberg: "Pastors and Prohibition: The role of Norwegian Lutheran clergy in the North Dakota abstinence movement, 1880-1920" (n.d.).
"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.
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"The Centennial Review of Dwight, North Dakota," and "A History of Wild Rice Lutheran Church, Dwight, North Dakota, 1878-1938," both compiled by Lillian Knudsen Quamme.
Papers relating to former NAHA member E. Biddle Heg. Heg is the great grandson of Hans Christian Heg, a colonel in the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. E. Biddle Heg was originally from California, but attended schools in both California and Pennsylvania. Throughout his career he worked at various universities on the East Coast and in California as a professor and in the administration. Later in his life Heg developed an interest in investigating his family history.
Copy of a letter from E. Stengel to his daughter Martine who emigrated to San Francisco with her two sons Einer and Elmer in 1882, to join her husband who had emigrated a year earlier.