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  • Subject is exactly "World War I"

Finding aid to the Lars A. Rossing papers
Correspondence, clippings, pamphlets, scrapbooks and account books, photographs, and "The Rossings and Their Store" of a Norwegian-born merchant at Argyle, Wisconsin, dealing with merchandising, church, local history, and family interests. The L. A.…

Correspondence and articles of a Norwegian-born (Stavanger, emigrated 1883) farmer and mason, Platte, South Dakota, which discuss local church life, the snowstorm of 1888, the depression in the 1890s, and World War I. References are made to Sven…

Finding aid to the Carl G.O. Hansen papers, 1862-1958
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…

Finding aid to the Adolph M. Hanson papers, 1919-1942
Papers of a Faribault, Minnesota, physician: poems, correspondence, and articles dealing largely with his invention of, and the patent on, his extract of parathyroid gland, the royalties from which he donated to the Smithsonian Institution. Hanson…

Finding aid to the Nicolay Andreas Grevstad papers, 1892-1925
Correspondence, articles, reports, and clippings of a Norwegian-born journalist, diplomat, and financier. Grevstad was a practicing attorney and editor of Dagbladet (Oslo) before emigrating in 1883. In America he was editor of Nordvesten (St. Paul);…

"From the Cradle to the Grave, a Few Notes from Traveling through Life " by Thor Ohme. Born in Oma, Hardanger, Norway, Ohme emigrated in 1909. The account covers travels, work, attendance at Augsburg College (1911-1912), service as an airplane…

Stolee family collection, 1893-2006
(Ole) Michael Jakobsen Stolee (1871-1946) and Martha Knutson Stolee (1878-1957), missionaries to Madagascar, 1900-1911. Papers include glass negatives, photographs; letters to church officials, family and congregations who supported them. Also…

Encompassing collection that includes monographs, clippings, correspondence, photographs, memoirs and other ephemera illustrating Norwegian-Americans service during World War I.

Pamphlet titled "Legend of Life," which presents a historical survey of the first 25 years of the far-reaching accomplishments of a California hospital society that had its origin in the cooperative efforts of the Lutheran brotherhoods in the area…

Letters, certificates, and medals of a Norwegian-born army colonel Waloe immigrated to Wisconsin ca. 1891; served in the United States Army in Cuba and the Philippines (1896-1924). Appointed colonel and assistant chief of constabulary in 1917; and…
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