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Pictorial record of occasions involving the Norwegian-American community in Chicago: May 17, appearances of Bernt Balchen, Governor Adlai Stevenson, the Oslo Håndverkers Chorus, and ribbon-cutting ceremonies. Blessum, a Chicago businessman and for a…

Also known as the Norsemen's Federation. Includes miscellaneous records and officers' reports of the Chicago chapter of an international organization "of and for men and women of Norwegian descent." Founded in Oslo, Norway, in 1907, its goal is to…

"My Life," Dyre Dyresen's translation (64 typescript pages, 1984) of an account written by an emigrant from Nordrehaug in Ringerike. After coming to Chicago in 1871 he became a Seventh Day Adventist and spent the rest of his life as a layman working…

Muster rolls of infantry companies stationed at Fort Dearborn, Illinois. Include Frederick Peterson, possibly a Norwegian, term June 1, 1808 to June 1, 1812 (or 1813). According to Lovoll's A century of urban life (NAHA, 1988) pp. 9,318 (note 15), in…

Material about the Scandinavian Department of the Salvation Army, especially in Chicago. Collected by Helen Fletre and Josefa Andersen for Odd Lovoll to use in preparing A Century of Urban Life (NAHA, 1988).See pages 201-202, 229, 237, 289.; Lovall…

"Norwegian theatre in Chicago: from peak to demise." 16 p. typescript. Sources, p. 16.; "The Norwegian theatre was most active during the 1920s and 1930s, and I concentrated my study on this period historical background, producing organizations,…

Photographs and documents of the family of an immigrant to Chicago from Kongsverg. Name also "Tony: and Haavelsen. Includes the family of his wife Rose (born March 20, 1882), and daughter of Gustav and Janna Jurgensen (he was a Chicago cabinet maker,…

Copies of family documents, correspondence, photos, and union records of a Chicago emigrant from Stavanger, who was a member of the Bridge and Structural Iron Workers Union, beginning in 1902. He served on the steam yacht during the Spanish-American…

Jan Andersen was born in Hvaler, Fredrikstad, Norway, in 1920, and went to sea in February 1938. After 70 months of service during the war, he was discharged in December 1946. That year he married Josefa Hansen and they settled in Chicago, Illinois,…

Information about, and papers given at a Chicago conference titled "Norwegians in Chicago: Their History," designed to provide an overview of the "colony" once regarded as the Norwegian capital of America. Rolf Erickson coordinated the event, with…