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Einar Ingvald Haugen ( April 19, 1906 – June 20, 1994) was an American linguist, author, and professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison and Harvard University.
In 1931 Haugen joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he stayed until 1962. He was made Victor S. Thomas Professor of Scandinavian and Linguistics at Harvard University in 1964, and stayed here until his retirement in 1975. Haugen served as president of the Linguistic Society of America, the American Dialect Society, and the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. Haugen was also a member of the Board of Editors of the Norwegian-American Historical Association.
The collection includes O. E. Rolvaag letters to Haugen, correspondence, clippings, and articles in typescript and print.
Articles and speeches by and a collection of clippings (1910-1952) about Hoidale and his family. Hoidale was a Norwegian-born editor, attorney, and congressman from Dawson and Minneapolis. The file includes two speeches made during his campaign for United States Senate (1930) on the Democratic ticket (one speech is dated June 1929, 6 typescript pages) and a biographical sketch of Hoidale by Martha Ostenso.
Also includes postcard "Hoidale for Congress: 'We have had enough of the Square Deal on paper and in talk--Now give us the real thing and let us have it without quibbing or delay."
Papers of a Norwegian-born journalist and publicity director: correspondence, articles, and scrapbooks dealing with a variety of subjects such as war, politics, religion, immigration, and Norwegian-American literature. Among his correspondents are Fred Biermann, H. Sundby Hanson, Sverre Mortensen, and Felix B. Wold. There are World War I letters and letters by Theodore C. Blegen, Knut Gjerset, Birger Osland, Kristian Prestgard, and O. E. Rolvaag. Josephsen was on the"Skandinaven" staff, circulation manager of "Decorah-Posten," with the book department of Augsburg Publishing House, publicity manager and later public relations manager of the New York Central Railroad Company, and finally the public relations director of City National Bank, Chicago.
Includes:
Articles, Clippings, Diary. Includes: "Bjerke's Review of a New Catechism," translated by E. Josephsen (1910); "Has 20th Century Civilization Improved Mankind?" (1939), 1914-1942
Scrapbook, 1918-1921
Scrapbook, politics, 1961-1962
Article, "History of Decorah Park System," by Fred Biermann, 1956
Clippings, a circular, and a letter from the Norwegian-born author of "The Man with the White Horse" (1979). Leistad was a trainer of wild horses and a performer of vaudeville acts.
A biography of and articles, speeches, essays, manuscripts, and meditations by a Norwegian-American journalist who had a long-time career as editor of Decorah-Posten, beginning in l927. The biography, "An Editor Chooses America: The Story of Einar Lund," is written by his daughter, Eva Lund Haugen. Ms. Haugen states that a thesis on Lund written by Baard Meyer-Myklestad had overlooked items her article includes. The mentioned Meyer-Myklestad thesis is in the NAHA Book Collection.
Letters and clippings concerning Joachim G. Giaver (1856-1925), a Norwegian-born civil engineer in Chicago, who received the St. Olav Medal from King Haakon of Norway in 1921. Included in the letters is one from a relative, Ivar Giaever, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1973.