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A. Jorgensen report, 1865
Reproduced copy of "The Emigration from Europe During the Present Century" published in Quebec in 1865. The causes and effects of emigration are based on Norwegian statistics and reports and on a French history of emigration. Transferred to library for cataloging, 2001. See Blegen's "Norwegian Migration to America: The American Transition (NAHA, 1940), p. 360n, 379-380. -
Olof Meyer Jorgenson papers, 1903-1980
Miscellaneous papers of a 1903 emigrant from Fiskenes on the island of And. He became a member of the Baptist Church in Norway. After study at the Danish-Norwegian Baptist Seminary in Chicago, he was ordained in 1911 and served parishes of the Danish-Norwegian Conference in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Washington. The file includes a biography by Mrs. Jorgenson; a sizable collection of letters by Jorgenson to his family in Norway and his family's letters to him; a seminary thesis; obituaries and other funeral notes; sermons and sermon outlines; and church related documents such as minutes, congregational papers, anniversary programs, church histories, and tributes. Portions of Jorgenson's letters, particularly those to a brother Hans at And, provide frank commentary about American economic, political, social, and moral life. He experienced two World Wars, the depression of the 1930s, droughts, dust storms, prohibition and its later repeal, and Roosevelt's New Deal. -
Theodore Jorgenson papers, circa 1911-circa 1950
Correspondence, articles, clippings, diaries, family history, handbooks, lectures, lecture notes, minute book, notebooks, pamphlets, poems, reports, scrapbooks, speeches, and translations of a Norwegian-born professor of Norwegian at St. Olaf College. Jorgenson immigrated in 1911 and was a member of the St. Olaf College faculty (1925-1966). Among his many publications he was author of "History of Norwegian Literature," "Norway's Relation to Scandinavian Unionism, Ole Edvart Rolvaag: A Biography" (with Nora O. Solum), "Henrik Ibsen: A Study in Art and Personality," "Norwegian-English School Dictionary." He was the Democratic Farmer-Labor nominee for the United States Senate in 1946.
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Einar Josephsen papers, 1907-1962
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
- "A Man in the Street" manuscript, 1932
- Correspondence, 1907-1961
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Harris E. Kaasa papers, 1984
Copy of typed translation of Arne Garborg's "Laeraren" ("The Teacher"), a play in five acts, by Harris Kaasa, a professor of religion at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa. -
Hans Olaus Kaasbøll papers, 1782, 1829
Transcript of propositions in geometry by Kaasbøll.
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Jacob Theodore Sohner biography, 1986
"J. Theodore Sohner, Portrait Painter," by Ione Kadden, the story of a versatile artist who was also a fine musician. Subjects for his paintings were distinguished Minnesotans: governors, senators, judges, scientists, and musicians. A plea is made in the story for locating the extant Sohner portraits so that a record may be preserved at Vesterheim Norwegian American Museum in Decorah, Iowa. -
Kahrs family history, 1923, 1967
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"Stamtavle over familien Kahrs" by Thora Sollied Kahrs, Bergen, 1923
"Family Kahrs," translated by Elizabeth Kahrs Pennell, 1967
Citizenship papers for Nikolas M. Nelson dated Oct. 13, 1893, Whatcom County, Washington
Formerly part of P539. -
Erwin Kalevik pamphlets, 1984
Two accounts, "Kallevig Reunion" (1978) and "Georgeville, Minnesota, from 1860-1983," edited by Kalevik, a Norwegian American, who at one time was a resident of Georgeville, Stearns County, Minnesota. The Kallevig reunion was held at Willmar, Minnesota, where descendants of the three brothers, Alias, Johannes and Olle Kallevig gathered in the area where the three brothers originally settled in the 1880s and 1890s, after emigrating from Moster, Hordaland. -
John Kallestad family papers, 1890-1987
Documents, correspondence, photo albums concerning the family of John Kallestad, a master mariner who came to Chicago from Kristiansand in 1921 and whose family followed in 1923. The Kallestads were charter members of the Norwegian Memorial Church in Chicago where John served as chairman of the Church Council.