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Financial records and minutes of a Chicago literary society. The minutes cover business meetings, lectures, and discussions.

A pamphlet published by La Porte County, Indiana, Historical Society; an article by Robert F. Coffeen; and a reproduced copy of the dust jacket of a book about a notorious immigrant from Selbu, who came to Chicago in the 1890s. Belle Gunness is…

Clippings, correspondence, poems, pictures, notes, and souvenirs concerning a Chicago woman and her activities in Norwegian organizations in that city.

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"…

In this series of interviews by Odd Lovoll for his books “The Promise of America: History of the Norwegian-American People” and“The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian AmericansToday,” Lovoll interviews C. Marvin Lang regarding being a…

Scandinavian and American Culture, originally a lecture given before Det Norske Selskab in Washington, D.C., on January 26, 1910 and later published in "Idun," 1910, Chicago, and 17 clippings (1905-1928). Stangeland was a professor of political…

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…

Brochures, catalogs, correspondence, and reports of a school founded in 1917.

Minutes, yearbook, membership lists, and correspondence of a technical society organized in Chicago in 1922. Similar societies were later organized: the Norwegian Engineering Society of New York in 1925 (later, Society of Norwegian American…

An album containing pictures from the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893, together with other pictures said to be from the early years in Humboldt Park, Chicago.

Includes a daily ticket to Exposition (Oct. 9, 1893). Includes photo of a…