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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…

Citation for an honorary degree, Dr. of Letters, St. Olaf College (1974), prepared by Kenneth O. Bjork; a review of Gudrun Hovde Gvåle's biography of Rølvaag and "A Shipload of German Emigrants and their Significance for the Norwegian Emigration of…

An undated letter by Kristen Kvamme, Lutheran clergyman at Ossian, Iowa, to Ole E. Rølvaag, containing a sketch of Skougaard of New York City, concert soloist, voice teacher, and friend of Alfred Corning Clark, who published a Skougaard biography in…

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,…

Copy of a 200-page manuscript by a Norwegian writer: "To FedrelandEller Intet? Emigrantproblemet slik O. E. Rolvaag har fremstilt det i romanserien "I De Dage." The author states that her purpose in writing the book was to make O. E. Rolvaag known in…

Articles, clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, and records of a Wisconsin-born St. Olaf College administrator and teacher. The papers concern campus life, public relations, counseling, courses of study, student and teacher recruitment, funds…

Originals, reprints, and copies of articles and publications by a Professor of English at St. Olaf College, published in various journals, concerning Norwegian-American literature. Subjects are: Norwegian-American Literature, Nora Helmer, Chicago,…

Papers of a teacher of Norwegian at St. Olaf College: a Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson letter and a scrapbook of clippings dealing largely with Bjørnson and the centenary of his birth; a scrapbook on O. E. Rølvaag and other writers (1931-1956); and a…

Papers of O.E. Rolvaag's daughter. In 1944 she taught in the Foreign Area & Language Study program at the University of Minnesota, and class cards for her students (and many letters from them) are included.

General statements, genealogies, family histories, and histories of pioneer settlements by students who studied under O. E. Rolvaag at St. Olaf College. Includes a chart of emigration statistics by region, 1860-1925.