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  • Subject is exactly "Immigration & society"

This 37-page pamphlet covers the story of Christian Nilson Flagum who was born on Fretland in Sogndal on January 17, 1859 and died in December 13, 1927 in his home near Lake Mills, Iowa. Christian emigrated with his parents and two brothers in 1867.…

An emigration document and letters (mainly from Kvikne, Tynset, Hedmark, 1883-1890) to Mrs. Dahlby, a Norwegian-born farmer's wife at Mount Horeb, Wisconsin.Correspondence includes 1918 letter from the Rev. Henrik Voldal from Torquay,…

Includes: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…

Reports to Norwegian immigrants concerning United States immigration laws, naturalization process, suffrage, legal and property rights, labor laws, agriculture, education, and languages.Includes:Letters, 1925 December 22-1931 June 23 Letters, no.…

A review of Loken's "From Fjord to Frontier, A History of Norwegians in Canada." Loken, the son of immigrants to Canada from Eidsvoll, Norway, became professor of Educational Administration at Calgary University in 1971.

His book is the first…

"About Florence," by Jim Hanson, 2019.

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…

Finding aid to the John Storseth papers, 1929-1944
Manuscripts of a Norwegian-born farmer, lumberman, and self-taught student of literature and religion: "Old Homes and New" and its Norwegian counterpart, "Fra gammel og ny tid i Norge og Amerika," is an autobiography, depicting the problems of…

Biographical information about a Norwegian-American woman who grew up in the home of her immigrant grandparents, Peter (1848-1936) and Martha Petersen (1854-1951), at Manistee, Michigan. Includes notes, clippings, and photographs.

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…

Finding aid to the Lars Nielssen Nesseim (Nesheim) papers, 1838-1961
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…
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