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• Norwegian parchment, 1553

  A legal verdict from June 1553 written on sheepskin, the verdict decided legal ownership of a large estate between contestants Erik Bollsen and heiress Margaret Nilsdatter. The Oslo Courthouse jury found in favor of Bollsen, and each of the twelve jurors placed his seal in beeswax. All but one remains affixed to the parchment. 
  
  This parchment eventually landed in the hands of Axel T. Lindholm from Stillwater, Minnesota.
• Norwegian-American Technical Society papers, 1929-1983

  NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN TECHNICAL SOCIETY. NORTHWEST BRANCH, MINNEAPOLIS. PAPERS, 1929 - 1983. Materials about a group founded in 1929 as a branch of the Norwegian American Technical Society (with other branches in Chicago, New York, Detroit). For related materials see these collections: Chicago Norwegian American Technical Society. Papers, P 882; Society of Norwegian American Engineers, New York. Papers, P 969.
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  Ivar and Hulda Aas/Aus family papers, 1938-2021

  Biography/History:
  Records of the Ivar and Hulda Aas/Aus family. Includes information on Ivar, Hulda, and children Hans and Berit. Ivar Asbjørn Aas (1906-1993) was born in Ski, Norway, on December 2, 1906. He married Hulda Unhjem in 1938. Hulda was born in Ørsta, Norway, on December 20, 1909. They had two children, Hans Magnus Aas who was born in Ørsta on March 14, 1941, and Berit Marie Aas, who was born in Mysen on March 6, 1947.

  In 1947, the family immigrated to Brooklyn, New York, where Ivar was an associate pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church. In the 1950s, the family moved from Brooklyn to settle in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For many years, Ivar Aus was the pastor at the Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church (Mindekirken) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

  Ivar Asbjørn Aas
  Name change to Ivar Asbjørn Aus at the time of Naturalization to United States Citizenship, December 18, 1956, Kings County, New York.

  Born: Ski, Norway, 12/2/06

  Education: Hamarkatedralskole, University of Oslo, Menighetsfakultet, Union Theological Seminary

  Employment: Norway: Santal Misjon Norway, State Church

  of Norway; United States: Trinity Lutheran Church, Brooklyn, New York, Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church (Mindekirken,) Minneapolis, Minnesota; Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran, Edina, Minnesota; Central Lutheran, Minneapolis; Nile Nursing Home, Minneapolis.

  Death: September 26, 1993, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Interment Central Lutheran Columbarium, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

  Hulda Unhjem Aas
  Name change to Hulda Unhjem Aus at time of Naturalization to United States Citizenship, December 18, 1956, Kings County, New York

  Born: Ørsta, Norway, December 20, 1909

  Education: Ørsta skole, Volda middleskole, Volda gymnas, Ullevål sykepleskole

  Employment: Norway: Ørstabruk, Ullevål Skyehus; United States: none

  Death: March 3, 1999

  Interment: Central Lutheran Columbarium, Minneapolis, Minnesota

  Hans Magnus Aas
  Name change to Hans Magnus Aus at time of Naturalization to United States Citizenship, December 18, 1956, Kings County, New York

  Born in Ørsta, Norway, 3/14/41

  Education: Public School 102 Brooklyn, New York, Fort Hamilton High School Brooklyn, New York, University of Minnesota, University of New Mexico, University of Arizona.

  Employment: Newspaper boy, Brooklyn Eagle, University of Minnesota student employment, Sandia Corporation, Albuquerque, University of Colorado, Fort Collins, Colorado, Max Planck Institute, Goettingen, Germany, University of Wuerzburg Germany.

  Death: May 26, 2018, Karman, Cyprus

  Buried: Karman, Cyprus

  Scope and Content:
  Collection of personal family papers for the Aas/Aus family. Contains photographs, correspondence, film, notebooks, cookbooks, and other records.

• Ole Estensen and Anne Langlie collection, 1898-1970

  Ole E. Langli, originally from Selbu, Norway, immigrated to the United States in 1912 at the age of 17. His older brother, Ingebrigt, was already farming in Minnesota and sent Ole money for his passage. When it came time to book the journey, Ole found he didn’t have quite enough for a ticket on the Titanic—so he chose a different ship instead.
  
  Once in Minnesota, he worked on his brother’s farm and in the logging industry. He eventually met and married Anna Henmo, who had emigrated from Tydal, Norway, along with her sister. Ole later found long-term employment at the Ford plant, where he worked for 40 years.
  
  Ole and Anna settled in North Minneapolis and raised two children together.
  
  Collection includes letters and photographs.
• Carter J. Johnson and Bessie (Berg) Johnson papers, circa 1900-circa 1942

  Biography/History:
  Carter J. Johnson and Bessie (Berg) Johnson were Norwegian American residents of the Wausau, Wisconsin, area, born in the 1890s to parents who had immigrated from Norway between the 1870s and 1880s. Following their marriage in 1919, the couple relocated to Green Bay, Wisconsin, where they raised one daughter. During her studies at the University of Wisconsin, their daughter met an Alabama native enrolled in Officer Training School; the two married in September 1945 and subsequently settled in Birmingham, Alabama, where they raised six children.
  
  Scope and Content:
  The collection includes numerous photographs and photo albums spanning many years, along with a set of postcards containing correspondence. The postcards document a range of Wisconsin communities, including Wittenberg and the Bethany Indian Mission.
  
  Location:
  20/C/6
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  Eliason family papers, 1895-1936

  Biography/History: 
  Karl Enok Eliason (1847-1925) was born in Kolvereid, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway, to Elias Larsen Rygvold and Berethe Einarsdatter. In 1875, he married Kathrina Synnes in Folderied, Norway. Kathrina Andrea Eriksdatter Synnes (1847-1938) was born in Høylandet, Nordre Trondhjem, Norway, to Erik Pedersen (mother unknown). They had three children born in Norway and two in the United States: Sofie, Elias, Erik, Martin, and Alfred. In 1882, they immigrated and homesteaded near Appleton, Minnesota. Their first home was a dugout in the side of a hill on the farm. 

  The first child born in the United States was Martin (1885-1961). Martin A. Eliason married Allie Mae Olsen (1888-1956). They also farmed near Appleton, Minnesota. Martin was a member of the Horticultural Society and developed his own peony seedling called Le Charme, which can still be ordered from seed catalogs. He served as a School Board Clerk and was active in the local church. 

  Scope and Content: 
  Correspondence, photographs, pamphlets, and other records about the Eliason family of Appleton, Minnesota. Correspondence includes many letters either sent from Norway or in Norwegian.
  
  Location:
  20/C/6
  

• Oliver Brown correspondence, circa 1915

  Letters sent to Oliver Brown in Minnesota from family in Oslo, Norway.
• House of Norway records

  House of Norway records of San Diego, California. Unprocessed collection.
• Fedde family records

  Unprocessed collection.
• Seljaas family collection, circa 1988

  Includes two autobiographies: 
  

  • "The Story of My Life" by Elda Saetre Illguth Seljaas (translated by Helge Seljaas)
  • Autobiography by Kristian Seljaas (in Norwegian)