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Papers of a Norwegian-born artisan and farmer of Ostrander, Minnesota, consisting of correspondence, diaries, legal papers, and pamphlets. The correspondence, 1854-1894, consists of Norway letters, a Civil War letter, and letters from New Ulm, St.…

Articles and clippings of a Norwegian-born Minnesota farmer. The clippings are a series on local history that appeared in "Sacred Heart News" in 1944. "De Forenede Staters Vrste Indianerkrig" (39 pages) deals with the Sioux uprising in 1862, as does…

Biography/History: Ole Edvart Rølvaag was born in a fishing village on Dønna, Norway, on April 22, 1876. He immigrated to the United States in 1896 and worked as a farmhand in South Dakota from 1896–98. After graduating from Augustana Academy in…

Papers consisting of correspondence, diaries, creamery reports, tobacco pool reports, tax receipts, and assessor's statements (1891) for Town of Christiana, Dane County, Wisconsin. The correspondence deals with farm interests in Yellow Medicine…

Correspondence, clippings, and speeches. Most of the letters are by Bu and his wife to his parents in Gudbrandsdalen, Norway, dealing with his student days in Christiania, their emigration in 1875, and life in Ostrander, Minnesota, where Bu was a…

Secretary's record of a society organized in 1929 to promote Norwegian-American literature.

Brochures and reports of a St. Paul, Minnesota, institution, founded 1901.

Official organ of a Swedish Lutheran secondary school located at Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

Report about a school rounded in 1895 in Minneapolis. A. H. Faroe and E. M. Schelde were on the teaching staff.

Articles, brochures, clippings, correspondence, and reports of a Norwegian-American society organized in 1925 following the Norse American Centennial celebration in Minneapolis of that year. It has supported the Minnesota Leif Erikson Monument…