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Memoirs of a Lutheran minister's wife, Bolette Stud Bergh (Mrs. Johannes E. Bergh), who lived at Sacred Heart, Minnesota from 1872-1905.Contents: Topics addressed in memoirs include Rev. Thomas Johnson's farewell sermon; illness crossing the…

Papers of an artist born in Valdres who worked in Decorah, Portland, and Minneapolis. Two catalogs (about 1905 and 1926) include reproductions of portraits, landscapes, and altar pieces. Berger painted many portraits of church, academic, and…

Letters to a Norwegian-born farmer at Sunburgh, Minnesota. Correspondents include Thorstein Berg, Johannes Halvorson, Bjug A. Harstad, T. T. Kopseng, T. P. Satner, and Johannes Tingelstad. All in Norwegian.

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 of a professor of education at St. Olaf College: articles on educational subjects, a history of the Boraas family, correspondence, biographical data, clippings, diaries (55 volumes, 1899-1951), and a record of Boraas's public addresses. Some…

The Immigrant Wagon, typescript of a family history written by a Minneapolis physician about which he states in the introduction: "A commonplace narrative of pioneer events interwoven with contemporary data" The narrative is chiefly the story of his…

Photocopies of letters written by two immigrant brothers to their family in Vinje, Telemark, Norway, beginning with an account of their 1868 journey from Norway and later recording their experiences as Minnesota farmers. The last letters are from…

Papers of a professor of English at St. Olaf College, 1919-1960. Author and translator. Author with Theodore Jorgenson, "Ole Edvart Rølvaag: A Biography" (1939); translator: Rølvaag, "Peder Seier" (1928), "Peter Victorious" (1929); Rølvaag,…

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, 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…