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Karen Erikson Bakke history, 1950-1979
"Besta: A Story of North Dakota Pioneering," by Cyrene Bakke Dear, 2 copies. Topics covered: child's toy kettle (p1), Civil War and fighting against slavery (p2), bootmaker (p2), growing hops (p2), barn dances (p2), wagon train (p3-4), making of klub (p6), "mother as a midwife" (p6-7), grasshopper plague (p7), life at Fort Lincoln, near Bismarck, N.D. (p8), General Custer (p9), capture of Rain-in-the-Face (p11), Sitting Bull (p11), Goose River Settlement (p14), pregnancy (p15), death of infant to TB (p15), Rev. Bjug Harstad (p15), build hotel in Mayville, N.D. (p16), railroad magnate James Hill (p16), church practices (p19), threshing (p21), ailing husband and cure at Hot Springs, Arkansas (p22), Christmas 1892 (p24), Julebukk (p24), becoming an auctioneer (p26), alcoholism (p26), postpartum depression and near suicide/infanticide (p28), Rev. Rorvik (p30), raising peacocks (p33), awful storm with hail (p33), living in Hillsboro (p34), theaer in the barn (p36), circus comning to town (p36), first telephone (p37), mourning Pres. McKinley (p37), typhoid treatment--starving patient/liquid diet. Taboo of bananas (p37), killed by a train (p37), water tower collapse (p38), speaking English with a Norwegian accent (p41), first automobile (p47)
Topics covered: Civil War and fighting against slavery (p2), bootmaker (p2), growing hops (p2), barn dances (p2), making of klub, (p6) grasshopper plague (p7), life at Fort Lincoln, near Bismarck, N.D. (p8), General Custer (p9), capture of Rain-in-the-Face (p11), Sitting Bull (p11), Goose River Settlement (p14), pregnancy (p15), death of infant to TB (p15), Rev. Bjug Harstad (p15), build hotel in Mayville, N.D. (p16), railroad magnate James Hill (p16), church practices (p19), threshing (p21), Christmas 1892 (p24), Julebukk (p24), becoming an auctioneer (p26), alcoholism (p26), postpartum depression and near suicide/infanticide (p28), Rev. Rorvik (p30), raising peacocks (p33), living in Hillsboro (p34), theater in the barn (p36), circus coming to town (p36), first telephone (p37), mourning Pres. McKinley (p37), typhoid treatment--starving patient/liquid diet. Taboo of bananas (p37), killed by a train (p37), water tower collapse (p38), speaking English with a Norwegian accent (p41), first automobile (p47) -
Lee family history, 1869-1980
"Lee family history: The descendants of Thorvald J. and Mathilda Lee (the history of North Dakota Homesteaders)" by H. Minerva Hogstad Norman and Alvin T.M. Lee. -
Batalden family papers, 1893-1920
Includes:
- Letters from Christian Batalden Meyer Batalden, 1893-1896
- Christian immigrated to the US from Norway in 1871. Meyer was born in Minnesota in 1873. While Meyer attended business school in Wilder, MN in 1893, Christian wrote to him (24 letters). All in Norwegian.
- Includes transcriptions.
- Highwater Lutheran Church, circa 1899
- Letters from the Norwegian Lutheran Church in America regarding synod business, notes which may be church council minutes, lists of members, and more. All in Norwegian.
- Includes transcriptions.
- Cassette tape, circa 1990
- A Norwegian friend translated the letters by reading them onto the tape.
- A 1900 catalog which was likely used to order furnishings and architectural items for the new church building.
- Letters from Christian Batalden Meyer Batalden, 1893-1896
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Asmund Hvidston papers, circa 1889-1920
Records about Asmund Hvidston's family history. Also includes photographs and diplomas of Juliet Dyste. -
Torrey Savereid letters, 1942-1944
Torrey Savereid entered the armed forces with a background including being the son of a Norwegian immigrant, a Norwegian Lutheran and coming from rural Iowa. He had met a young Norwegian-American woman (Marjorie Thronson) who was working in Minneapolis before he left overseas. The letters tell of his early history (and life in the trenches) while the overseas courtship continued through war-time censorship and V-mailletters.
Includes:
- 10 folders of correspondence between Torrey Savereid and Marjorie Savereid..
- "My Love is Always Yours: The World War II Letters of Torrey Savereid, 194s-1944" by David W. Thronson.
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Katarina Thorwaldsen papers, 1892-1911
Katarina Thorwaldsen (born 1877 in Sandsvaer, Norway; died 1954 in Brooklyn, NY) emigrated from Norway in 1911 and settled in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, Theodore Thorwaldsen (born 1875 in Tonsberg, Norway; died 1969 in Brooklyn, NY) a ship captain, who had emigrated from Norway two years earlier. Katarina traveled to the United States with her young daughters, Esther and Eldrid.
Includes:
- Handwritten recipes and other handwritten material all in Norwegian. 8 notebooks dated 1892-1896.
- Sample of knitting and sewing
- Clippings
- Book titled, “Norge I Vare Hjerter” by Nordahl Grieg published in 1929.
- Affixed to the inside cover of this book is a handwritten letter in Norwegian, dated Julen 1942, signed by Haakon VII of Norway.
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Lorence Munson Woodside papers, 1888-1953
This extensive collection covers all aspects of Woodside's impressive career as educator, public speaker, author, translator, civic leader, and gardener. Born in Hamilton County, Iowa, the daughter of Norwegian emigrant parents, Sivert and Mesine Munson, she graduated from Highland Park Normal College at Des Moines in 1893. There were later studies at the University of Chicago and at Boston University. She was instructor in elocution at Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, Iowa, and the director of Physical Culture for the Iowa WCTU for a brief time.
From 1901 to 1927 she was employed by the Redpath Lyceum, Eastern Lyceum, and the Chautauqua system as reader and occasionally as manager. In 1909 she married Alonzo Woodside, a veteran of the Spanish-American War who also served in World War I. He later served as a superintendent in the inquiry section of the Boston Post Office. Lorence Woodside's interest led beyond a career in public speaking. She developed a cut-flower dahlia named the "Mrs. Woodhouse." Much of her energy was given to community service. She held offices in the Massachusetts Food Administration, 1918; the Advisory Council of Women at Massachusetts State College, Amherst, 1926-1953; Boston Rental Housing, 1951-1952; and many local organizations. Her trips to Norway in 1906, 1913, and 1926, the last as an Honorary Fellow of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, brought her into contact with Norwegian writers. Her major achievements in this regard were the translation of Sverre Brandt's "Sonja's search for the Christmas Star", produced by the New York Junior Players, December 1929, and the translation of Barbara Ring's "Peik", published by Little Brown in Boston, 1932. -
Marilyn Priestly bibliography, 1980
"Comprehensive Guide to the Manuscript Collection and to the Personal Papers in the University Archives," compiled by Marilyn Priestly. Of special interest are the pages dealing with Norwegian Americans. -
H.H. Strom records, 1896-1915
A receipt book and ledger showing receipts and disbursements in connection with the guardianship of the minor children of Martin Hermanson. Strøm was a State Senator from Hillsboro, North Dakota. -
Anna T. Spafford papers, 1894-1930
Copies of letters written in 1894 to Abraham Jacobson, Decorah, Iowa, and copies of newspaper clippings (1897-1950) telling the story of the American colony in Jerusalem, which had been founded by Horatio Gates Spafford and his wife, who was born in Stavanger. Anna Larsen Spafford had come to Chicago with her family in the 1850s, where she continued to live until her departure for Jerusalem in 1881. Other members of the family had moved to Goodhue County, Minnesota, among them Edward Larsen (1838-1911), a half-brother. She is portrayed as Mrs. Gordon in Selma Lagerlöf's novel Jerusalem. Sven Hedin gives a sympathetic picture of the group in Till Jerusalem. Her daughter Bertha Spafford Vester published Our Jerusalem, an American Family in the Holy City.