An unidentified diary in Norwegian dealing largely with the search for work in Brooklyn, New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. A stamp at the beginning reads "A.P. Østberg, Fredriksstad."Contents: Diary (1901). Stamp at beginning: A.P. Østberg,…
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 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…
Brochures, catalogs, histories (1923, 1933), reports, and clippings of an institution located in Brooklyn, New York. The hospital, started in 1883 under the leadership of Sister Elizabeth Fedde, merged with the Lutheran Hospital of Manhattan in 1956…
Histories and reports for New York and New Jersey Benevolent Socities. Includes: Norwegian Children's Home, Brooklyn, N.Y. Norwegian Christian Home for the Ages (Norwegian Christian Home and Health Center), Norwegian Sailors' Home (Den Norske…
Correspondence, photographs, programs and clippings of a society organized in Brooklyn in 1925. Its stated purpose was "to unite fraternally young men and women of Norwegian birth or descent of good moral character to meet together and uphold the…
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…
"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…
