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…
Typewritten copy of "Af et brev om Amerika" by the head of the Stavanger agricultural school containing arguments against emigration. The original is in the University of Oslo Library. Contents:Typewritten transcript, 1928
Note: Sophie Bøe's…
Beskrivelse av vor reise fra Norge til Amerika, aar 1857 is a description of Buu's journey to America together with his wife and five children, beginning at Bergen and ending at Liberty Prairie, Wisconsin. Manuscript copy was made by Iver J. Jaastad…
AbstractArticles from two Norwegian newspapers about Norwegians immigrating to California in the 1850s. One includes a letter from San Francisco.ContentsPhotograph, Johannes Iversen Eide, from Skogn, Norway, member of a gold digging expedition to…
Emigration papers, a Norwegian-American Steamship Line passenger contract, marriage, death, baptism, and confirmation certificates, and a bounty land deed, in addition to various other legal documents. Chiefly 19th century with some early 20th…
An emigration document and letters (mainly from Kvikne, Tynset, Hedmark, 1883-1890) to Mrs. Dahlby, a Norwegian-born farmer's wife at Mount Horeb, Wisconsin.Correspondence includes 1918 letter from the Rev. Henrik Voldal from Torquay,…
Typescript copies of ten letters by a Norwegian-Lutheran clergyman published in Norwegian newspapers, describing his journey in 1844 to Wisconsin, his trips as itinerant minister to various Norwegian settlements, establishment of the Koshkonong…
An unidentified diary in Norwegian dealing largely with the search for work in Brooklyn, New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. A stamp at the beginning reads "A.P. Østberg, Fredriksstad."Contents: Diary (1901). Stamp at beginning: A.P. Østberg,…
Includes a release document issued to Leif Torgrimson Aanaas and his family upon their departure for America from Telemark, Norway, May 11, 1848 (Nedre Thelemarkens Fogedcontoir ved Skien).See Naeseth's "Immigrants," 1848: 1452-1456. From Sauherad,…
Includes a vaccination certificate, letters of introduction and a daily account of a Norwegian-trained businessman's journey in 1881 from Bergen to Morris, Illinois, in Norwegian.
