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Clippings, correspondence, genealogy, music, pamphlets, and photographs of a Wisconsin-born author, diplomat, editor, and educator. The clippings deal largely with Anderson controversies. Anderson was professor of Norwegian at the University of…

Manuscript volume of 4 poems about immigration to America. Bergh was a teacher at Luther College, 1868-1872. Born in Voss to Ellef Storksen Berge, he emigrated in 1857 and taught in Liberty Prairie, Wisconsin and Big Canoe, Iowa. Representative in…

ContentsArticles of a Norwegian-born clergyman. "Mod Bennett-Loven, vidnesbyrd og grunde," 8 pages, no date. The Bennett-Law, passed in 1889, required school attendance of children from 7 to 14 years of age in Wisconsin. The stipulation that…

Scrapbook of clippings from American and Norwegian newspapers compiled by a schoolteacher and nurse from Coon Valley and La Crosse, Wisconsin. Among the items are a poem by Kristofer Janson, O. J. Breda's address at the Kristofer Janson festival in…

Andreas Larsen Dahl was born in Skrautvall, Valdres, Norway. Dahl emigrated in 1869, joining an older brother in DeForest, Dane County, Wisconsin. From 1873 until his ordination in 1883 he worked as a traveling photographer in southern Wisconsin and…

A letter from Døving to "Kjære ven," February 4, 1923; "The Døving Hymn Collection," by Frank R. Miller, published in "The Friend," February, 1936; photocopies of 15 hymns translated by Døving; and lists of translations which have been made of two…

A Luther College student paper entitled "The Authenticity of Norumbega," which seeks to disprove the existence of Norumbega, a Norwegian colony believed by some to have existed in the area of Boston about the year 1000 CE.Contents:Duffner, Russel A.…

Articles, sermons, speeches, notebooks, and manuscripts of a Norwegian-born educator and theologian. Topics include child training, Norwegian language, Norway's literature and history, church schools, Ibsen, and reminiscences.Includes:Manuscript of…

Articles, clippings, and correspondence of a Minnesota-born Luther College graduate and professor of English at the State University of Iowa, Vanderbilt University, Gettysburg College, and lastly Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster,…

Articles, catalogues, certificates, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, notebooks, manuscripts, temperance literature, clippings, and family histories of a Wisconsin-born educator. Hilleboe was principal of Willmar Seminary; superintendent of…