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• Adolph G. Ensrud family papers, 1879-1948

  Majority of the collection focuses on Adolph Ensrud's youth spent in Wells, Minnesota and then at St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN (class of 1917). Additional photos and memorabilia from the family of Bernt O. Ensrud and Randi Henjum Ensrud.
  
  

  • photo/postcard album (Wells and Northfield, MN). Includes Rev. Joseph O. Ensrud, Edmore, ND; Henjum Machine Shop, Wells, MN; Flour Mill ruins in Wells; group of soldiers (WW I); Ginseng Garden of H. Rolfson, Wittenberg, Wis. 1910-1918
  • photographs. Includes images of B.O. Ensrud's General Store in Wells, MN (ca. 1900); Kickapoo Lutheran Church, Viraqua, Wisc.; Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, Wells, MN; unidentified minister; Torger Steenson's Men's Clothing Store, Osseo, WI; oversized photo of interior of Our Savior's Lutheran Church; oversized photo of Einar Hooverson's funeral flowers and inset photo [this image placed in oversized folio photo box 4) 1900-1915
  • Miscellaneous family documents. Includes: excerpt from the 40th anniversary (1936) of the Norwegian Lutheran Children's Home Society (attached is a photoprint); booklet of the 40th anniversary of Zion Lutheran Church, Chicago (1932); photocopies of citizenship papers; photocopies of marriage certificate of grandparents, Bernt O. and Randi Henjum Ensrud (1887); naturalization certificate of Hans Gilbertson; (1894); obit notice for Bernt O. Ensrud (1948); obit notice for Hans Gilbertson (1927); obit notice for John B. Henjum (1922); obit notice for Randi Henjum Ensrud (1937); obit notice for Betsy Thompson Hooverson (1929); student paper on Eidsvoll by Egil Ensrud (n.d.); Randi Henjum's confirmation certificate 1879-1948
• Adolph Jacobson memoir and poem, 1917-1943

  Jacobson was born at Sandefjord and followed his family's seafaring tradition in 1870. He immigrated in 1892 to Racine, Wis., becoming a sailor on the Great Lakes. His memoirs were published in 18 installments in Skandinaven (Oct.. 6, 1931-Jan. 6, 1933) under the title, "Nogle erindringer fra seilskibenes dage." In addition to telling his life as a sailor, he provides much information about the Norwegian-American community in Racine. He also was a regular contributor of religious verse to Lutheraneren and Skandinaven. Clippings of the articles and some poems are included.
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  Adolph M. Hanson papers, 1919-1942

  Biography/History: 
  Adolph M. Hanson was a physician and researcher from Faribault, Minnesota. He won a Minnesota State Medical Awards gold medal for his exhibit on the biological effects of thymus and pineal extracts. He went on to patent his methods and related concepts on the extract of the parathyroid gland, the royalties from which he donated to the Smithsonian Institution. Hanson was the son of Martin G. Hanson and grandson of Osten Hanson, past president of the Hauge Synod. Hanson held the rank of major in the Sanitary Commission during World War I.

  Scope and Content: 
  Papers of a Faribault, Minnesota, physician: poems, correspondence, and articles dealing largely with his invention of, and the patent on, his extract of the parathyroid gland.

• Adolph Tidemand prints, 1956

  Reproductions from the National Gallery, Oslo, of paintings by a famous Norwegian artist. Among these are "Brevet fra Amerika," and "Udvandringen." Other prints deal with Norwegian church life.
• Aga family history, 1999

  Aga family history, by Roswell Aga
  Formerly part of P539.
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  Agderlag papers, 1922-2000

  About Agderlag:

  Agderlag is an organization of individuals with “roots” in the Agder region of Norway which is made up of the old fylke of Aust- and Vest-Agder including the Setesdal area. The lag originally organized at the State Fairgrounds on June 6. 1925 during the Norse-American Centennial. In 1926, they reported 188 members. 

  Past presidents included: 
  Rev. T. Tjornhom (1925-38)
  Rev. Karl Stromme (1938-50)
  Tom H.C. Gabrielson (1950-55)
  Rev. Gabriel Gabrielsen (1955-1963)
  Rev. John T. Wayne (1963-)

  Past secretaries included: 
  Wilhelm Pettersen (1925-27)
  Reinert Tofteland (1927-31)
  Thorvald Rudjord (1935-50)
  Tilda Akersmyr Tofteland (1955-68)
  Mrs. Toby Olson (1950-55, 1960-)

  History of the Bygdelag: 

  Papers of "bygd" societies and their Common Council ("Bygdelagenes Fellesraad"); clippings; constitutions; correspondence; minutes and financial records; pamphlets; pictures; programs; and reports; dealing with conventions; officers; special projects; and the Norse-American Centennial of 1925. The bygdelag; organized around the turn of the century; are societies based on regional origins in Norway. They were active in the Eidsvoll Centennial in 1914 and the Norse-American Centennial in 1925. While activity dropped off after the beginning of World War II; a revival began in the 1980s as a result of renewal of ethnic interest; and with emphasis on family history. Odd S. Lovoll's "A Folk Epic; The Bygdelag in America" (NAHA; 1975); which includes a. bibliography of lag publications.  

  Papers of the various "bygdelag;" "social organizations of (Americans) from the same homeland district; usually rural" which began in 1899 with the organization of the Valdres Samband. About fifty other lag with national-wide appeal were formed; as well as many others which were more local. They held annual "stevner" (meetings) and many published periodicals; yearbooks; or monographs which often contained extensive genealogical materials. A decline came after World War II; with a revival in the 1970s particularly through renewed emphasis on genealogical research.   

  A Council of Bygdelags (Bygdelagenes Faellesraad) coordinates activities of the groups. They were very active in the Eidsvoll centennial celebrations in 1914; and the Norse-American Centennial in 1925. Holdings for the various lag vary; but usually include clippings of newspaper articles about their meetings; correspondence; programs; and copies of their publications; duplicates of library holdings; in the periodical and book collections (monographs and annuals included in the latter). In some cases regional associations are included with the national groups; and in others separate groups which later merged are included under the merged name.

  Oversized lag photographs and panoramas are located within the Photograph Collection (P0655).
• Agnes Kjorlie Geelan biography, 1989

  The January 1989 issue of the Binford (North Dakota) Guide, volume 21, January 1989, which tells the story of a Norwegian-American, beginning with her childhood and youth in Hatton, North Dakota, and her education at the Mayville Normal School. She came as a teacher to Enderlin, North Dakota, where she married Elric Geelan, a railroad trainman. She became involved in women's suffrage, the labor union, and local politics, which led to her election as mayor and later as senator in the North Dakota Legislature. She served as Commissioner of the State Workmen's Compensation Bureau, was a member of the North Dakota Commission on the Status of Women and of the North Dakota Constitutional Convention. She is also the author of a biography of Senator Bill Langer and of two novels, The Ministers' Daughters and Pine Cove Revisited.
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  Agnes M. Kittelsby papers, 1891-1940

  Biography/History: 
  Agnes Kittelsby (1880-1925) graduated from St. Olaf in 1900, and served the college as a professor and preceptress for nine years. She also had stints at St. Ansgar Seminary, Waldorf College, and Augustana College. In 1914 she departed for China alongside her husband, who was St. Olaf’s first Rhodes scholar. There she taught the children of missionaries at the American School Kikungshan in Hunan. Her devotion to both schools lasted until she died in 1925. 

  Scope and Content: 
  Correspondence, a scrapbook, a biography, biographical notes and a diary of an Iowa-born teacher. Much of the material deals with life at the schools she served. She also spelled her surname Kittelsby.

• Agnes Mathilde Wergeland papers, circa 1900

  Mainly clippings of articles from newspapers and periodicals about a Norwegian-born poet and historian who became a much esteemed professor of history at the University of Wyoming. The file includes several photographs, including one of the bronze plaque erected in her memory at the University of Wyoming. Among the tributes is one by Knut J. Norstog.
• Agnes Tangjerd papers, 1890-1924

  Biographical data, letters, and a tribute to a teacher and librarian at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, 1940-1960.