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Correspondence, reports, clippings, and photographs of a Norwegian-born Lutheran clergyman, theological professor, author, editor, and lecturer. Bruce immigrated to Yankton County, Dakota Territory, in 1884; attended Fremont College, Red Wing…

Papers of a teacher of Norwegian at St. Olaf College: a Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson letter and a scrapbook of clippings dealing largely with Bjørnson and the centenary of his birth; a scrapbook on O. E. Rølvaag and other writers (1931-1956); and a…

A proclamation signed by Christian IX (1863-1906), and separate signatures of Ole Bull and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.

Letters, documents, photos, and other items of an emigrant from the Lofoten Islands, who came to Chicago in 1864; here he enlisted in the Navy and served on a Mississippi River gunboat during the Civil War, after which he sailed on the Great Lakes…

A Bjørnson Album, from the Writings of Ole Resset tells of the writer's association with the poet, Bjørstjerne Bjørnson, in whose employ he began as a stable-boy but later became cook and valet. Resset settled in Rothsay, Minnesota in 1905. He began…

Papers of a minister in the Methodist Church. Includes biographical information, letters, clippings, articles, and celebrations of his 100th and subsequent birthdays (1924-1988). Also includes videotapes of a television program about Schevenius…

Copy of "Minder fra Tiden omkring Aaret 1830 til 1848," published in 1872, and a 132-page typescript translation of the same. The reminiscences deal with attorney Paulsen's childhood and youth in Solør, Norway.

Clippings, correspondence, genealogy, music, pamphlets, and photographs of a Wisconsin-born author, diplomat, editor, and educator. The clippings deal largely with Anderson controversies. Anderson was professor of Norwegian at the University of…

Correspondence, clippings, essays, papers, personal reminiscences, 1932 centenary observance, and commentary on his 1881 lecture tour in the Midwest. One letter is by Bjørnson to Thoralv Klaveness concerning the latter's book, "Det Norske Amerika"…

AbstractPapers, 1927-1954, 1976. Correspondence, clippings, and pamphlets of an Icelandic-born professor of Scandinavian languages and literature at the University of North Dakota.Contents Clippings and pamphlets Icelandic literature and government,…