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Erik Jensen Lundlokken family papers, 1727-1794
Copies of a group of 18th century documents from Gudbrandsdal which are in the possession of Mr. and Mrs. T. Linn of Chicago.
A summary of the papers was provided by Rolf Erickson. The papers include farm sale in Tretten annex, a petition to the King of Denmark and Norway, sale of farm (newspaper story), and confirmation of farm sale in 1738 and 1794. -
Charles A. Johnson legal document, 1926
Examination of Title for a piece of property, described as Lots 7 and 8 in M.N. Kimball's Subdivision in Section 26-40-13, Cook County, Illinois, prepared by Chicago Title and Trust Company. The record begins in 1841, the document is dated June 22nd, 1926. -
Hjemkomst history, 1980-2007
A Dream is a Dream 1980 (revised edition), the story of a replica of a Viking ship, as told by the builder, Robert Asp. Building of the ship took place in an old potato warehouse in Hawley, Minnesota. Robert Asp died before the work was finished, but his family readied the ship and sailed the Hjemkomst across the Atlantic, arriving in Bergen, Norway, July 19th, 1982. A Minneapolis Tribune Picture Section (August 29th, 1982) and clippings tell the final story. The ship is now housed at the Red River Valley Heritage Society's Museum at Moorhead, Minnesota. (Heritage-Hjemkomst Interpretive Center) Beginning 1997 a replica of the Hopperstad stave church in Vik is being built in connection with the center. Clippings about this church are included, as well as those about the annual Scandinavian Hjemkomst festival held in Fargo-Moorhead. The Clay County Historical Society Archives are also in the center.
Includes programs, invitations, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and advertisements for the Hjemkomst festivals. -
Mons Anderson clippings, 1974-1982
Data covering an immigrant from Valdres, who came to Milwaukee in 1848 and moved to La Crosse in 1851. He established his own business in 1856 and became known as "The Merchant Prince of La Crosse." The clippings consist of biographical notes and information about the house he purchased in 1865. There is also a description of a coin which he had had minted with his lion trademark on the obverse side.
Contains newspaper clippings on Mons Anderson and his home in La Crosse. -
Norwegian-Danish Methodist Episcopal Conference, Richland Congregation papers, 1856-1984
Records of a rural Richland County, Wisconsin congregation, which in 1945 became part of the West Wisconsin Conference of the American Conference. The congregation was organized by a group of Norwegian immigrants in 1856. Because of declining membership, the church was closed in 1981.
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Volume: Pastoral records, 1856-1945.
Correspondence, 1984. Also contains deeds.
Pamphlet, 100th anniversary. Includes brief history.
Account book, 1910-1917.
Sunday School Record Book, 1896-1900.
Quarterly conference minutes, 1920-1941.
Photograph, 1880. -
Scandinavian Young People's Society records, 1872-1945
Minutes and financial records of a society organized in 1872 as "De Unge mænds kristelig forening tilhøreded Trefoldigheds Menighed, Chicago, Ill." Later minutes books cite 1876 as date of organization. The stated purpose was to foster spiritual, intellectual, and social development. Later they owned a building on Kedzie Avenue, Chicago.
Includes: 6 volumes of minutes, 1872-1917. Miscellaneous. Includes constitution and by-laws, 1890; various newspaper articles, including one from Ungdommens Ven, by Harald Schmidt, 1890; Vinland, 1972; A History of Norwegian in Illinois by A.E. Strand, 1908; Skandinaven: 1894, 1905; 10 ledgers. 2 volumes of minutes, 1917-1945; 8 volumes of financial records: 1886-1895, 1889-1899, 1893-1911, 1907-1923, 1911-1913, 1916-1945, 1921-1939, 1929-1930. -
Dordi Glaerum Skuggevik manuscript, 1886
A 1,000-page typescript manuscript for the book Utvandringshistorie fra Nordmøre: Stangvik og Surnadal Prestegjeld, which was published in Surnadal, Norway, 1886. The book is an exhaustive account of emigration from the above-named parish, giving details of the individuals. The publication is in the NAHA books collection: JV6734.S56.
Includes: Introductory statement: "A 'Roadsign' to Readers in America" by the author. Also included is a review (in Norwegian) by St. Olaf College professor emeritus Odd S. Lovoll. Folder 2 contains manuscript part 1: "Emigration statistics." Folder 3 contains manuscript part 2A: "Michigan." Folder 4 contains manuscript part 2B: "Michigan." Folder 5 contains manuscript part 3: "Minnesota and Wisconsin" as well as a letter to St. Olaf College professor emeritus Odd Lovoll. Folder 6 contains manuscript part 4: "Diaries of Emigrants." Folder 7 contains manuscript part 5: "West Coast" as well as a letter to St. Olaf College professor emeritus Odd Lovoll. Folder 8 contains manuscript part 6: "Gard directories." Introductory statement by the author, "A 'Roadsign' to Readers in America," in typescript with handwritten editing marks. Hardcover copy of "Utvandringshistorie fra Nordmøre: Stangvik og Surnadal Prestegjeld," given to Carlton Qualey. Inside the front cover is a letter from the author to Qualey. -
Dreng Bjornaraa clippings, 1919-1987
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. -
Bjorn Winger papers, 1916-1940
Poems, stories, and an upublished novel of a Norwegian-American teacher, folklorist, and writer. He graduated from St. Olaf College in 1914 and received his M.A. degree fom Indiana University in 1930. He taught English in an Indianapolis high school from 1916 to 1941, save for military service in France during World War I. The papers include infomation about his father, Anders Winger (1861-1928), a Norwegian actor who emigrated in 1882 and lived in Minnesota the rest of his life -
Ingeborg Olsdatter Bergeim diaries, 1850-1987
A collection of 52 notebooks (3,500 pages), which constitute the daily records of a woman from Surnadal who emigrated to the U.S. in 1880, married Peter Bergeim and settled with him in Watertown, Dakota Territory. The first diaries are written in Norwegian, but beginning in 1903 are in English. They are quite introspective, covering her thoughts and her personal and family life. There are accounts of the Atlantic crossing and of an attempt at homesteading. The diaries were discovered by her son Joseph Bergeim (b. 1894), who translated the story of her early married life into a manuscript called "Ingeborg's Story," 1944. This work also includes a genealogy, a chronology of important events, Peter Bergeim's own autobiography, some family pictures, and a summary of the diaries.