Immigration & society]]> Wilder (Minn.)]]> Highwater Lutheran Church]]>
  • Letters from Christian Batalden Meyer Batalden, 1893-1896
    • Christian immigrated to the US from Norway in 1871. Meyer was born in Minnesota in 1873. While Meyer attended business school in Wilder, MN in 1893, Christian wrote to him (24 letters).  All in Norwegian.
    • Includes transcriptions.
  • Highwater Lutheran Church, circa 1899
    • Letters from the Norwegian Lutheran Church in America regarding synod business, notes which may be church council minutes, lists of members, and more. All in Norwegian. 
    • Includes transcriptions.
  • Cassette tape, circa 1990
    • A Norwegian friend translated the letters by reading them onto the tape.
  • A 1900 catalog which was likely used to order furnishings and architectural items for the new church building. 
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16/C/7]]> Batalden, Meyer]]> Batalden, Christian]]> PO Box 2989
Cheyenne, WY 82003
307.631.3835
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Dahlby, Anne]]> Voldal, Henrik]]> Immigration & society]]> Mount Horeb (Wis.)]]> Norway--Emigration and immigration]]> Wisconsin]]>
Correspondence includes 1918 letter from the Rev. Henrik Voldal from Torquay, Sask.

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Anne Dahlby Papers, Correspondence. Includes 1918 letter from the Rev. Henrik Voldal from Torquay, Sask.]]>
Dahlby, Anne]]>
Halverson, Knut]]> Telemark (Firm : Poland)]]> Iola (Wis.)]]> Immigration & society]]> Emigration and immigration]]> Pioneer ]]> Portage County (Wis.)]]> Halvorson Teslow, Hannah ]]> Rosholt, Malcolm Leviatt, 1907-]]> Farm life]]>
Two volumes of a journal or diary kept by a 1865 emigrant from Telemark who settled in the "Indian Land [Native American]" in central Wisconsin, Portage County. The first volume covers May 1872-April 1878. The second volume covers 1890-1896, with occasional entries (not always chronological) through 1934 A letter (May 9, 1955) from a niece, Hannah Halvorson Teslow, gives information about the family. Malcolm Rosholt, who knew Halverson and gave the diaries, translated the first volume. Two versions of the translation, with introductions and notes, are included (55,56 p.).

Most of the translation was published in the "Iola Herald" in spring 1970. Rosholt published an article, "A pioneer diary from Wisconsin," in "Norwegian-American Studies," volume 21 (1962), pp. 198-211. He says the diary "may be the most significant early document relating to Portage County, Wisconsin, in the Norwegian language" for the period, giving a "fairly comprehensive picture of pioneer farm life on the Wisconsin frontier." The second volume, which was discovered later, has not been translated except for a few pages. The surname is spelling variously; this is the one used in Rosholt's article.
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Halverson, Knut]]>
Immigration & society]]> Genealogy & local history]]>
Jim Hanson’s "About Florence" is an extraordinary story, about redemption and abandonment, about lives cut short and lives lived to their fullest, and about the things that are told and the things that were not.. Set against the backdrop of Chicago, from the late nineteenth century till now, it tells of a widow’s migration from Norway with her three daughters and the family they were able to create. Charming vintage photographs help this narrative poem sketch the lives of these working women who did not count for much in their world, and the lives of their children and grandchildren. It’s a journey of discovery that sheds light on how we live today, and how women and immigrants continue to struggle, against all odds, to make a place in America. From the back cover: “To want to tell a story, when the lines of a story aren’t even visible. To use what you know about your family to provide something, anything, to flesh it out. To make some lucky discoveries that move the story forward. And then to see your forebears plainly. To grasp who they were, and how they reacted to what happened in their lives. To stand with them, face to face.”]]>
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Hanson, Jim]]> 2907 63rd St
Fennville, MI 49408

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Immigration & society]]> North Dakota]]> Genealogy]]> 16/C/7]]> Hogstad Norman, H. Minerva]]> Lee, Alvin T.M.]]> Dakota Territory]]> Immigration & society]]> Genealogy & local history]]> "From Husmann to Farmers: Norwegian Pioneers in Dakota Territory" by Eric C. Johnson follows the story of Peder Johnson and Mari Nielsdatter who were born at Nord-Fron, Gudbrandsdalen. They came to America in 1866-1867 and settled in Wisconsin, before moving to Dakota Territory in 1871 and settling in Abercrombie Township, Richland County.
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Johnson, Eric C.]]> 640 John Carllyle St. Unit 448
Alexandria, VA 22314

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Genealogy & local history]]> Immigration & society]]> Manistee (Mich.)]]> Petersen, Peter (1848-1936)]]> Kompas, June]]> Immigration & society]]>
His book is the first comprehensive account of Norwegian migration to Canada. It centers on the western provinces that have the greatest concentration of Norwegians.

Also includes a copy of the publication within folder.]]>
Loken, Gulbrand]]>
Education]]> Trade schools]]> Lutheran Church]]> Minnesota]]> Politics]]> Social Democratic Welfare State]]> Employment]]> Unemployment]]> Exercise]]> Food]]> Welfare]]> Teenage pregnancy--United States]]> Family]]> Single parents]]> Widows]]> Aid to Families with Dependent Children (Program : U.S.)]]> Olympics]]> Hockey]]> Immigration & society]]> Race]]> United States Senate Chamber (United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.)]]> Disability]]> portion of Odd Lovoll’s interview with then-Senator Roger Moe. In this fragment, they discuss Roger’s views on education, particularly higher education and technical school, as well as his thoughts on immigration, welfare, and the value of being Norwegian-American. They take a brief detour into discussing the 1994 Winter Olympics. This is clearly only a part of a larger interview, and the missing earlier portions are referenced throughout. The earlier tape may have been lost, or else the tape may have been corrupted and unsalvageable.

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Moe, Roger D. (1944-)

Roger Moe was born June 2nd, 1944 in Crookston, Minnesota to Mathilde and Melvin Moe. He earned a degree in Education from Mayville State College, and later attended both Moorhead State College and North Dakota State University. Roger taught math in a public school until he was elected as a United States Senator in 1970, at only 26 years old. Roger represented Minnesota District 2 until 2002. He was well-liked by many and cited as a calm, collected Senator.

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Voss (Norway)]]> America letters]]> Eielsen, Elling]]> Haaeim, Sjur Jørgensen]]> Immigration & society]]> Biography/History:
Lars Nielsen Nesheim, a farmer in Øvre Lemme in Voss, Norway, was responsible for copying all of these letters. A man by the name of Ivar Davidson Hustvedt (who donated one copy to NAHA) knew the man personally, and described Nesheim as a self-taught man, and as an "original.” Hustvedt said Nesheim had "bookshelves that reach from the floor up to the ceiling filling two walls" and “he spared no effort, often traveling great distances in order to get hold of these letters, as a loan or by other means, so he could copy them. He bound these copies into books” These letters were sent from America, and often helped convince or deter a person from emigrating. All of them are carefully copied in gothic script using different colors of ink. 

Scope and Content: 
The Lars Nielseen Nesseim papers consist of two volumes of copied immigrant letters. One volume was donated by Ivar Davidson Hustvedt, and the other by Rev. Sven Tverberg. The two volumes of America letters were written during the 1840s to friends and relatives in Voss and copied into books by Nesseim. Sophie Boe made typed transcriptions and translations of the Tverberg volume. Among the letters are some by Elling Eielsen, Sjur Jørgensen Haaeim, and John Haldorsen Quileqval, uncle of Knut Nelson. 

Correspondence between Sophie Boe, O.E. Rølvaag, and Theordore Blegen about the Tverberg volume, and between Blegen and the Chicago Historical Society (now Chicago History Museum) about the Ekse volume. Note, the volume donated by Ida S. Ekse to the Chicago Historical Society may be the Lars Davidsen Reque volume. Two other volumes are at the Voss Folk Museum.

Volume 1 and volume 2 of the copied immigrant letters is available online.]]>
Nesseim, Lars N.]]>