"Dress in Rural Norway, Mid to Late 19th Century. From Norwegian Rural Dress to American Dress," an article adapted from a lecture (with photographs and slides) given by the Førstekonservator, at the Bygdøy Museum in Oslo, Norway. No photographs are…
Articles on emigration from Trondheim which appeared in Arbeider-Avisa, June 2-23, 1956.; Contents: "Sophie's mislykte ferd i 1850 med trondere paa gullgraving; Blad om de tronderske utvandreres forste reis; Amerikaferberen faar form av en epidmie,…
"A preliminary English version" of an article published in a Norwegian journal, based on about eighty letters written to his parents in Levanger by Andrea Stomsoe between 1892 and 1906, with extensive excerpts from the letters. Stromsoe was born 1869…
Index of emigrants from Krodsherad, Sigdal and Eggedal who went to America.Contents: Box 1How to use this index: all entries are alphabetical by first name.
Includes: patronym, farm names, sex, year of emigration, area the individual came from, birth…
Paaverknaadene paa dei norsk utvandrarane sitt spraak. Senior oppgave, Scandinavian Studies, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, 1989. 10 p., 2 p. notes, 2 p. bibliography (including a number of interviews). Typescript.Contents:The Influences on the…
Kolkin emigrated with his family from Gjerpen, Telemark, to the Christiania settlement, Dakota county, Minn. In 1865. He was a student 1872-4 at Marshall Academy, Marshall, Wis., and at Augsburg Seminary in Minneapolis, and also at the University of…
"From Emigrant with an E to Immigrant with an I...," a copy of a 26-page paper presented to the Dhahran Saudi Arabia Genealogical Society. The paper deals with general aspects of Norwegian emigration from 1830 through World War I. The concluding…
Lærdal-Borgund emigration list (with a short biographical sketch). Research completed by Forrest Brown in 1984 for Alfred Espe, Lærdal, Norway. Includes over 116 individuals/families that settled in Goodhue County, Minnesota by 1880. A short…
Copy of a letter to "Dearest Julia," with title added "My Trip Across the Ocean," dated Evanston, February 24, 1915. The letter relates the author's experiences leaving Norway, crossing England, and the journey across the Atlantic on the "Northland."
Clippings and letters concerning the needlework artistry of a Norwegian-born housewife who emigrated in 1906 and who lived in Superior, Wisconsin. In 1939 some of her work was exhibited on the occasion of the visit of Crown Prince and Princess of…
