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Funding to digitize a portion of the American Relief for Norway, Inc. Papers provided to NAHA through the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, a component of the Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy constitutional amendment, ratified by Minnesota voters in 2008.</text>
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                <text>&lt;strong&gt;View the finding aid to the American Relief for Norway, Inc. papers &lt;a href="https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/items/show/10226" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;</text>
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