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History/Biography:  Carl Gustav Otto Hansen was born on March 16, 1871 in Trondheim, Norway to Sivert Christian Hansen (1839-1872) and Marit Megrund (1842-1927). In 1881, Carl, alongside his mother and siblings, emigrated to the United States. They…

Papers of a Norwegian-born editor and realtor: correspondence, clippings, and a scrapbook dealing with such subjects as the cultural life among Norwegian Americans; Norwegian-American press; Bjornson in America; Scandinavian professorship at the…

Correspondence and assorted papers of a pharmacist and administrator of the St. Paul Luther Hospital. Includes a small booklet for the Woman's Club (1910-1911) Dell Rapids, S.D.; class notes from the University of Minnesota, Department of Medicine,…

An autobiography written for “children, sisters, cousins of all degrees, close friends and for anyone interested in learning the history of a second to fourth generation Norwegian-American growing up in Wisconsin in the 1940–1960s.” Included are…

Kierland, who emigrated from Granvin, Norway in 1890 when he was eighteen, brought with him two mindebog journals from his high school years in Voss, Norway. Included in the Iver Kierland papers are these two journals, various examples of his…