"The Decision to Emigrate: Adventure or Necessity," a paper based on the memoirs of Elling S. Solheim, who was born in Nordmøre in 1880 and emigrated in in 1904. The paper attempts to demonstrate emigration in terms of the "push and pull" theory.
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,” Odd Lovoll interviews William Murat, a Wisconsin State…
Articles on Norwegian-American medical leaders by the professor of Medical Bibliography at Northwestern University Medical School: 1. "Petra Dahl: Physician, Social Activist, and Norwegian." 2. "Niles T. Quales: Physician and Leader in the Norwegian…
Thoresen, former president of Great Western Steel Corp., owned the "Wm. Thoresen Co," of Chicago (419-421 W. North Avenue) manufacturer of architectural sheet metal ornaments. Collection contains many letters, mostly written from Stavanger, Norway…
Articles, biography, photograph, reports, and speeches by Norway's New York Consul General, envoy extraordinary, and ambassador to the United States, 1929 - 1962. Includes 2 photos, brief biography (1939); newspaper clippings in both Norwegian and…
A paper titled "The 400,000 H. P. Hydro-Electric Air-Nitrogen Plant at Notodden, Norway" (description and historical development), presented before the Brooklyn Engineers Club. Fleischer was the purchasing engineer for the Norwegian Hydro-Electric…
