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Catalogue of and clipping about a private high school in Minneapolis (1890-1897) operated by Wilhelm W. Wraaman.

Articles, correspondence, catalogues, record books, reports, photographs, programs, and a scrapbook concerning a Lutheran secondary school at Willmar, Minnesota (1883-1919).

Catalogues, correspondence, and photograph.

Four papers, including one by Carlton C. Qualey titled "Upper Midwest Centennials." Introduction by Theodore C. Blegen. Paper titles: "Is the Territorial Centennial of Concern only to Professors of American History?" by A.C. Krey; "Upper Midwest…

A 3-page typescript biography of Mrs. Knute B. Norswing (his sister) and a program for Constitution Day (1933). Hoverstad was superintendent of agricultural stations in Minnesota.Includes poster, "Constitutional Convention and Patriotic Celebration.…

Correspondence and articles (32 typescript pages) of a Norwegian-born farmer at McGrath, Minnesota. The articles consist of anecdotal accounts of land claims, Indian neighbors, transportation, housing, forest fires, livestock, drought, wildlife, and…

A sixteen-page mimeographed typescript entitled "Chronicles of a Minnesota Pioneer" covers the period 1870 to c.1890 in Blue Earth and Lyon Counties, Minnesota.

Scrapbook of a Rushford, Minnesota teacher and homemaker, contains letters by Knut Gjerset, Kristian Prestgard, J.B. Wist, and O.E. Rølvaag clippings pertaining to them and Adolph Gunderson, Ragnvold Nestos, Henrik Shipstead, Dikke Reque, and the…

In this series of interviews by Odd Lovoll for his books “The Promise of America: History of the Norwegian-American People” and “The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today,” Terje Joranger interviews Thelma Lane of Iowa. A…

On January 7-9, 1873, Minnesota residents experienced a violent blizzard when dozens of people died primarily on the State’s flat, tree-less prairies. Minnesota native, Carolyn Mankell Sowinski takes the reader back 150 years and tells the stories of…