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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 a Norwegian-born physician who established a clinic and sanitarium in Minneapolis. File includes newspaper clippings from 1923 to 1939, and two pamphlets, "The New Science of Curing Diseases" and "Twentieth Century Practice of…

Correspondence, clippings, essays, papers, personal reminiscences, 1932 centenary observance, and commentary on his 1881 lecture tour in the Midwest. One letter is by Bjørnson to Thoralv Klaveness concerning the latter's book, "Det Norske Amerika"…

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…

AbstractA 20-page offprint of "Vinlandsferdene," a lecture presented to Det norske geografiske selskab in 1936 and then published in "Norsk geografisk tidsskrift". A clipping reporting a similar lecture held in Minneapolis and Northfield is…

Correspondence, reports, clippings, and photographs of a Norwegian-born Lutheran clergyman, theological professor, author, editor, and lecturer. Bruce immigrated to Yankton County, Dakota Territory, in 1884; attended Fremont College, Red Wing…

AbstractReminiscences, 1960. "Pioneer Incidents as Told by My Mother," Hegbert Township, Swift County, Minnesota; and seven family letters (1885-1916) translated by Conrad Byre.ContentsArticle. Note: Nearly all the people mentioned in the letters are…

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…

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.

Letter written in Skånevik, Hordaland, Norway by Lars Eide to his children, Lars, Britha, and Margrethe in America. Britha, married to Ole Berhow (Berhaug), immigrated (1858) first to Illinois and then to Iowa in 1860. Contents:Lars Bastiansen Eide…