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Biography/History: Norsgaard was a professional photographer and cinematographer, originally from Norway, but for much of his late life he lived in Lakeville, Connecticut. Campbell Norsgaard was the official photographer for the Royal Norwegian Air…

In this series of interviews by Odd Lovoll for his books “The Promise of America: History of the Norwegian-American People” and “The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today,” Bjorn Borgen and Odd Lovoll discuss Bjorn’s childhood in…

A biography, 1975, photos, clippings, and assorted biographical information on a Norwegian-born major general in the United States Army Engineers and a founder of Sverdrup & Parcel, Inc., Engineers and Architects.

Harald Sorhaug was bron in Norway on February 1913. During World War II, he worked for the Norwegian Resistance (Hjemmevernet). Sorhaug often told stories of the war, and around his 90th birthday, his daughter asked him to put his memories into…

Torrey Savereid entered the armed forces with a background including being the son of a Norwegian immigrant, a Norwegian Lutheran and coming from rural Iowa. He had met a young Norwegian-American woman (Marjorie Thronson) who was working in…

Correspondence, pamphlets, publications, pictures, reports, minutes, albums, ledgers, journals, publicity, lectures, and clippings of a nation-wide association organized in Minneapolis in September of 1940 to raise funds to aid Norway and Norwegian…

Two volumes of "Selected Writings of Karl Olsen," edited by Stephen Olsen. Karl Olsen, born in Valley City, North Dakota, briefly attended St. Olaf College. Before the age of twenty, he tramped through Japan, Manchuria, Mexico, the Soviet Union, and…

The story of a Norwegian American who became a pilot for the Norwegian Air Force in World War II. When the war was over he was assigned to be Crown Prince Olav's personal pilot when he visited cities and communities throughout Norway in order to…

"Detailed instructions, supply and economics." A manual prepared pursuant to an agreement signed May 16, 1944, "Civil administration and jurisdiction in liberated territory," by Trygve Lie (Minister for Foreign Affairs of Norway) and Dwight D.…

Notes and other materials of a Norwegian war correspondent who lectured in the United States in 1943-1945. Beginning in 1925 she covered news from Italy, Germany, France, Spain, and North Africa. For a time she was correspondent for "Nordisk Tidende"…