SIMCON Organizing Committee records, 1979-1985

SIMCON Organizing Committee records, 1979-1985

P1622

1979-1985

Scandinavian IMmigration CONference Organizing Committee records of and about a "working conference of representatives from three scholarly organizations that concentrate on the life and history of Scandinavians in America," Danish American Heritage Society, NAHA, Swedish Pioneer Historical Society (later the Immigration History Research Center of the University of Minnesota was added for its Finnish coverage). Three conferences were held at Decorah, Iowa, hosted by Luther College and Vesterheim Norwegian American Museum.

Includes correspondence among those planning the meetings (including John R. Christianson, Lloyd Hustvedt, Odd S. Lovall, H. Arnold Barton, Erik Lund, A. William Hoglund, John S. Mattiasson, Kenneth O. Bjork, Thorvald Hansen, Joel W. Lundeen), programs background papers, minutes, lists of participants, etc. Received from Lloyd Hustvedt, with additional papers transferred from the Kenneth O. Bjork and Rolf Erickson papers.; I.Oct. 26-27,1979. II. A conference on Scandinavian American literary life, hosted by the Symra Society of Decorah (which later published the papers as Scandinavians in America: literary life, 1985), October 30-31, 1981. III. Scandinavia to America: the transfer & transformation of objects, October 24-27, 1985.; Background papers for I: Areas of cooperation, by H. Arnold Barton. Co-operation among Scandinavian-American historical societies, by Kenneth O. Bjork and Odd S. Lovall. Approaches to cooperation, by J.B. Christianson. Danish-American research resources, by Thorvald Hansen. Swedish-American archives in the Midwest, by Joel W. Lundeen.

1 folder

Correspondence

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