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Papers of Knud Saavesen Aaker (1797-1873) and his descendants: articles, correspondence, Civil War letters, notebooks, scrapbooks, albums, clippings, family histories, charts, and a diary. Includes letters from B.J. Muus, G. Hoyme, and Knute Finseth.

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…

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"…

Biographical data about a Lutheran clergyman who was president of Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, and president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.Includes: Biography and program, April 6, 1952-January 15, 1957. Program, "Unveiling Ceremony…

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).…

Norwegian-born artist and manager of a Norwegian art shop in Minneapolis, who dealt in reproductions of Norwegian art. Andreassen operated at 526 Hennepin Ave in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Agency for H. Abels Kunstforlag, Kristiania, selling…

Advertisements from the firm Alfred Andresen, the Western Importer, Minneapolis, established in 1893, regarding such items as "Sunhets Saltet" and other medications, spinning wheels, and "kromkagejern."Contents:Advertisements and imported articles,…

AbstractPapers of a Norwegian-born inventor and engineer who emigrated in 1910 and worked for the Great Northern Railway and the Minnesota Highway Department. Correspondence and blueprints of his spring spikes and variable twisted track spikes. See…

AbstractA historical sketch of the company by A.J. Anderson (1944), and pamphlets about staff picnics in the 1920s.ContentsArticle and pamphlets circa 1944 "When We Were Young: Reminiscences from Augsburg Publishing House," by A. J. Anderson,…

History/Biography:Julius Berg Johannesen was born in 1869 to Johannes Johannesen Bauman and Barbro Susanna Pedersdatter in Kiby (Tyby), Nord-Varanger, Finnmark, Norway. His father, Johannes Baumann, was a fisherman and partner of Per Kristian Glein,…