Beskrivelse av vor reise fra Norge til Amerika, aar 1857 is a description of Buu's journey to America together with his wife and five children, beginning at Bergen and ending at Liberty Prairie, Wisconsin. Manuscript copy was made by Iver J. Jaastad…
AbstractArticles from two Norwegian newspapers about Norwegians immigrating to California in the 1850s. One includes a letter from San Francisco.ContentsPhotograph, Johannes Iversen Eide, from Skogn, Norway, member of a gold digging expedition to…
Includes a vaccination certificate, letters of introduction and a daily account of a Norwegian-trained businessman's journey in 1881 from Bergen to Morris, Illinois, in Norwegian.
A manuscript of "Amerika feberen begynner: Av norsk utvandrings historie 1839," dealing with the 1839 Norwegian immigrants and the causes and results of their migration. A letter from Ansten Nattestad from Jefferson Prairie, Wisconsin, November 6,…
Papers of a Norwegian-born farmer in Green County, Wisconsin. A land indenture and patent, tax receipts, homestead application, marriage certificate, obituary, and baptismal records. Also includes photographs.ContentsPhotographs:
(Multiple) Town of…
AbstractA Washington (Snohomish Co.) newspaper that carried stories concerning pioneer dairying, logging, settlers, and politics.ContentsPioneer Issues
August 17, 1944
August 15, 1946
Letter written in Skånevik, Hordaland, Norway by Lars Eide to his children, Lars, Britha, and Margrethe in America. Britha, married to Ole Berhow (Berhaug), immigrated (1858) first to Illinois and then to Iowa in 1860. Contents:Lars Bastiansen Eide…
Correspondence and articles of a Norwegian-born (Stavanger, emigrated 1883) farmer and mason, Platte, South Dakota, which discuss local church life, the snowstorm of 1888, the depression in the 1890s, and World War I. References are made to Sven…
Articles and clippings of a Norwegian-born Minnesota farmer. The clippings are a series on local history that appeared in "Sacred Heart News" in 1944. "De Forenede Staters Vrste Indianerkrig" (39 pages) deals with the Sioux uprising in 1862, as does…
Eleven pages of handwritten recollections by a Norwegian-born pioneer housewife at Bear River, Minnesota, of her passage to America and of early pioneer days. Deals largely with religious life, transportation, and communication. Also, a 5-page…
