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Articles by Hoverstad regarding Johan Falkberget; a Norway Day Address in Minnehaha Park, Minneapolis, July 17, 1949; and an assortment of clippings (1919-1949) about Hoverstad.Content:Torstein Høverstad Papers: Articles.

A lecture titled "Lawyers in the Civil War," delivered before the Bar Association of the District of Columbia (1961), and an outline of an address, "Whatever Happened to Ole," given before Det Norske Nationalforbund in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1963).…

Scandinavia Today (National). News releases, programs, and clippings of a Scandinavian festival in the United States sponsored jointly by the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland, and Sweden) and the American Scandinavian Foundation.…

Established in 1921 and composed of Norwegian born women and American women of Norwegian descent, met monthly to study Norwegian culture, music and to continue the Norse language. Mrs. Helen Egilsrud, first president. A membership of 75 was…

Clippings about and letters to Pauline Farseth, who taught at North High School in Minneapolis and at an International Institute in St. Paul, and was active in cultural activities in the Minneapolis and St. Paul areas. She also translated Gro…

Papers of a Minneapolis businessman who was involved in a wide range of church, civic and Norwegian-American activities. A graduate of St. Olaf College in 1908, he became a director of music at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, 1909-1913, after…

Minutes, correspondence, and newspaper clippings concerning a Minneapolis men's athletic club organized by a merger of Norge Athletic Club and the Norse Sports Club. The members were active in soccer, skiing, and skating. The club gradually became…

Autobiography of a Norwegian-born retired school superintendent, for a time superintendent of Ebenezer Home in Minneapolis (1946-1962). Includes descriptions of his childhood and youth in Norway, his emigration to the United States in 1913, his…

A Pioneer Family, written primarily for the author's family, relating incidents from her life as a daughter of a Worth County, Iowa, farmer; as a college student; and as a teacher of piano and organ in Northwood and Decorah, Iowa, and in Minneapolis.…

A pamphlet, To the Slums with Love, by Marie Sandvig and Doris Nye; a copy of the Minneapolis Tribune Picture Magazine, September 4, 1983, which tells the story of how Sandvig, a Norwegian immigrant, opened a Revival Mission in 1940 and brought…