Poems by a Norwegian born Lutheran clergyman, Thompson, North Dakota. From Rolvaag Library Vault. Many of the poems are for/about specific occasions.Poems (1883-1904) and Articles (1912). 18 items, typescript. Added Nov. 1994: Article, "Et…
40 typescript pages. "Memoirs of Sister Elizabeth," translated by P. J. Hertsgaard, is an account of a Norwegian-born deaconess who began her career at the Deaconess Home in Christiania (now Oslo) in 1873, and who came to New York in 1883, where she…
"Pennestrøg—Opplevelser," the reminiscences (150 pages) of an emigrant from Feda to Brooklyn in 1880. He had been a teacher and a sea captain in Norway; in Brooklyn he established himself as a ship chandler and shipbuilder. He was influential in the…
A paper titled "The 400,000 H. P. Hydro-Electric Air-Nitrogen Plant at Notodden, Norway" (description and historical development), presented before the Brooklyn Engineers Club. Fleischer was the purchasing engineer for the Norwegian Hydro-Electric…
Typescript letters in Norwegian to Karl Holm, Brooklyn, New York, by a prisoner at Sing Sing as he awaits execution.Content:Ludvig Halvorsen Lee Letters.
A list of materials used for writing a history of the Norwegian settlement in Brooklyn. This study led to Mauk's The Colony That Rose from the Sea, published by NAHA in 1998.
A scrapbook of clippings from "Nordisk Tidende," concerning Norwegians in the Boston area, membership lists of two Norwegian societies, a sea narrative, and an article concerning Karel Hansen Toll, Schenectady, New York. The file also includes a…
"Minner Langs Livsvien," brief sketches written by Ole O. Sande, a native of Vik, Helgeland, who emigrated in 1902, settling in the Thief River Falls, Minnesota, area. Includes program for cornerstone laying festival at the Norwegian Christian Home…
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…
