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Clippings, letters, and other records of a Chicago dentist and violinist, who emigrated from Trondheim with his parents in 1902. A graduate of the American Conservatory of Music, 1912, and of the Northwestern University Dental School, 1914, he started his dental practice in Moose Lake, Minnesota, but after a disastrous fire there he returned to Chicago where he practiced dentistry until his retirement in 1960. During all those years he was also active as a musician, taking part in numerous concerts and recitals.
Includes:
Letters from Norway (1935-1939, n.d.).
Florence Dybdahl Correspondence and Reminiscences (1979-1981).
Florence Dybdahl Correspondence (1979).
Programs, from musical events, many with Dybdahl as a participant (1906-1942).
Sigrid Undset Letter (1 November 1940). Copy and English translation.
Trip to Norway, 1938 (1938, 1978).
Moose Lake, Minnesota, Fire, 1918 (1918-1979).
Biographical data (1912-1980). Includes 3 photographs.
Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, Illinois (1957-1959).
A three-page letter from a 99-year-old retired farmer in North Dakota, covering details of his life, his interest in Telelag, and his friendship with N. N. Ronning. He was a recipient of the St. Olaf's medal in 1963. Also included are articles about him, including an account of an experience while prospecting for homestead land in British Columbia, 1910.
Pamphlets and handwritten transcriptions of Norwegian verse which were family mementos from Norway. Also pictures and a letter regarding skiing for Asbjorn Knappen, 1924.
En Hyldest til Sangen og Musikkens Menn og Kvinner, written by a Norwegian immigrant who first heard a male chorus concert in Duluth in 1905. The essay is an appreciative account of the pleasure that has always been given him by music and musicians.
Copies of biographical data, concerning an emigrant from Nordre Fron, Gudbrandsdalen, who came to Brooklyn in 1882. He was the first president of "Nordmaendenes Sangforening" in Brooklyn.
An illustrated brochure, "My Thanks to Scandinavia," covering the thirty-year career of a California woman who produced and narrated nine films about Scandinavia.
Translation of selected passages from the first 90 pages of "'Viking' fra Norge til Amerika," written by a member of the crew of the ship "Viking" which sailed from Bergen to the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893, under Magnus Andersen as Captain. The book was published in Bergen, 1894, and is in the NAHA collection in the St. Olaf Library. The translation is unsigned. A full translation of the book was made by Helen Fletre and edited by Rolf Erickson, Louise R. Miller, James O. Rugland, and Darrell F. Treptow in 1984. The book is also in the St. Olaf Library.
Copy of a letter to her niece Edna from a La Crosse, Wisconsin, woman, who emigrated from Kristiania in the 1860s. She apparently was a teacher in Chicago. An English translation of the letter and notes concerning the writer and her family are in the collection.
Clippings and notes giving biographical information about a Minnesota artist, some of whose paintings are of the Lofoten area in Norway, where her mother was born.
A newspaper clipping from the "Richland Observer" and a paper, "History of Five Points, Norwegian Settlement in Township of Akan, Richland County, 1850-1947," written by Ruth M. Dobbs to fulfill an assignment in a course in Wisconsin history under Professor E. G. Doudna.