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A. B. Andreassen catalog, undated
Norwegian-born artist and manager of a Norwegian art shop in Minneapolis, who dealt in reproductions of Norwegian art. Andreassen operated at 526 Hennepin Ave in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Agency for H. Abels Kunstforlag, Kristiania, selling reproductions of Norwegian art. -
Alfred Andresen papers, circa 1893
Advertisements from the firm Alfred Andresen, the Western Importer, Minneapolis, established in 1893, regarding such items as "Sunhets Saltet" and other medications, spinning wheels, and "kromkagejern."
Contents:- Advertisements and imported articles, undated
- One sheet (one-side) advertises and illustrates various "Norwegian wares." A double-sided sheet has endorsements "from leading European men" of medication, and also one from H.P. Leachman "of the firm J. Leachman & Son" of Minneapolis, Feb. 12, 1897. A very large sheet issued by Heymann Bloch & Co. of Copehagen, is devoted to endorsements of the medication, but does not mention Andresen. The address of Andresen's firm is given as 1310 Washington Ave. S., Minneapolis.; Added (Aug. 24, 2009) photocopied article from magazine The Spinning Wheel Sleuth (July 2006, no. 53): Alfred Andresen, Spinning-Wheel Entrepreneur, by Michael B. Taylor. Added December 7, 2016: Laurann Gilbertson, Chief Curator, Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, "Cast Iron,Flax Straw, and Celluloid: Business Ventures of an Immigrant Entrepreneur" (presented at the Northern Great Plains History Conference, St. Cloud, Minnesota, September 15, 2016. 8 pgs.)
- Advertisements and imported articles, undated
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Nicolai Andresen memoirs, 1938-1963
A typescript of 41 pages covering reminiscences from the home in Oslo and visits to other parts of Norway at the turn of the 20th Century. The memoirs were written during the last twenty-five years of Mr. Andresen's life in the United States. He died in New York City. -
Ole Andreson (Anderson) correspondence, 1864-1887
Letters to his wife at Wiota, LaFayette County, Wisconsin, from a Norwegian-born farmer who enlisted February 2, 1864, with Company H of the Third Wisconsin Regiment of Infantry and was killed May 25, 1864, at Dallas, Georgia. Andreson gives instructions to his wife regarding farm operations, purchase of land, and collection of his pay. He describes the health and living conditions of his company, the slaves he meets, destruction of property, and the battle engagement north of Atlanta. Two letters from Rice Lake, Wisconsin, are descriptive of logging days.
Contents:- Correspondence, Civil War and other letters, circa 1886-1887
- All letters in Norwegian; one letter transcribed. Letters from Olaus Fjeld of Rice Lake Wisconsin, December 12, 1886 and March 6, 1887. One letter from Anders Thorsen Aase, Dane County, Wisconsin, December 19, 1867, all addressed to Ole's widow, Ragnild.
- Correspondence, Civil War and other letters, circa 1886-1887
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Peter Andressen papers, 1975-1979
Clippings from a Hawley, Minnesota, newspaper "The Herald" which published the "America letters" of a pioneer farmer in Clay county, Minnesota. Written from 1869 to 1901 to relatives in Rollag, Numedal, Norway, the letters cover aspects of pioneer life (in Emmet County, Iowa, and Clay County, Minnesota) and give news of family and friends. Andressen emigrated in 1869 and settled near what became Rollag, Minnesota, in 1877.
Includes: clippings of photographs and some biographical material translated by Otto Bratlie, but only two translations are included. One photograph was taken in 1975. -
Torres Anfinsen papers, 1853
Immigration papers (LaSalee Co., Ill.), citizenship papers (1853), and transcription of a letter (& transcription) written from Ottawa, Illinois, 1851 by Lars A. Wiigh to "Torres Anfindsen Wiig, Rochester P.O., Racine Co., Wis." N.B.: (see Naeseth's "Norwegian Immigrants" v. 2, p. 223 for Torres emigration on "Kong Sverre" from Bergen to New York, arriving June 24 or 29th, 1846; born Skaanevik, Hordaland.
Includes a vaccination certificate (1819); certificate (1852) from Lærdal parish for Ingeborg Ovesdatter Lysne, born 1822. -
Nina Sandström Angelsen thesis, 2005
A Hovedfag thesis submitted to the Dept. of Modern Languages at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Trondheim, November, 2005. Soft-cover, 198 pages.
Her thesis attempts to answer the question of what kind of contact or relations existed between Norwegian-Americans and Jewish-Americans in North Minneapolis and the general quality of their relationships. The author observes that the Minneapolis public schools and high school clubs and organizations were successful in bringing the greatest number of ethnically diverse groups together. -
Martin T. Annexstad Sr. scrapbooks, circa 1900-circa 1960
Three scrapbooks: 2 scrapbooks with cartoons about "Han Ola og Han Per" from the 1940s, in the Decorah-Posten, 1 scrapbook with political cards, mid-20th century and earlier. All compiled by Markin T. Annexstad Sr., Lake Park Farm, Norseland, Rte. 3, St. Peter, MN. -
Ansten Anstensen papers, 1916-1977
The papers consist of a "Sjøfartsbok," recording his terms as a merchant seaman, with notations for 1916-1918; a handwritten notebook entitled "Norske Stiler av Ansten Anstensen," with marks and corrections, perhaps from his study at St. Olaf College; and clippings by and about Anstensen, 1925-1942. Anstensen graduated from St. Olaf College in 1925, received a Ph. D. from Columbia University and studied in Germany, and founded the German Department at the University of Saskatchewan.
The papers were found in the attic of Old Ytterboe Hall, a men's dormitory at St. Olaf College, in March 1977.
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Georg B. Anthonisen papers, 1935-1940
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Papers of a Norwegian-born inventor and engineer who emigrated in 1910 and worked for the Great Northern Railway and the Minnesota Highway Department. Correspondence and blueprints of his spring spikes and variable twisted track spikes. See "Norwegian American Technical Journal," 10:8 (Feb. 1937) and Kenneth Bjork, "Saga in Steel and Concrete" (1947), p. 379.
Contents- Correspondence and blue prints