Translation of a diary kept by 14-year-old Lina Alsaker as she made the journey from Kristiania (now Oslo) to Stoughton, Wisconsin, via Castle Garden and New York in 1886. Translated by Christine Rypestol, 1984. The Norwegian version was published by…
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."
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…
"The Immigrants: An Autobiography," a 95-page story of the life of John (presumably the writer) who was born at Raak in the Bjugn Fjord area of Sør Trøndelag. He emigrated in 1902, via Hull and Liverpool, and came to Virginia, Minnesota, where he…
Copies of transcripts of letters written by Hans Jacob and by Johan Gotfred Gasmann, who emigrated from Skien. December 18, 1943 and May 9, 1847. Biographical data collected by Alfred Gasmann, Skien, Norway, and J. S. Schneider concerning Hans Jacob…
A kept by an immigrant from Telemark who came to Wisconsin in 1865. The file includes an edited translation with an introduction by Malcolm Rosholt, who published it in the "Iola Herald," Iola, Wisconsin (date unknown).Two volumes of a journal or…
Papers of a Norwegian-born carpenter and merchant of Sharon, North Dakota (emigrated 1872), consisting of several poems and his autobiography (4 p. typescript), edited by Vigleik E. Boe in 1933, where he tells of early houses, land problems,…
Letters by a Goodhue County, Minnesota, farmer to his fiancée regarding her ticket to America and to his parents about farm produce and prices. Mads emigrated from Stjørdal (Nord-Trøndelag) in 1870. His fiancée (Olia Guttormsdatter Kirkeby) emigrated…
Emigration papers of a Lutheran clergyman and missionary. Hellestad was born at Scandinavia, Wis. to Christian 0. Hellestad and wife Karen Jorgensen. He attended Scandinavia Academy, St. Olaf College, and the United Church Seminary, receiving the C.…
