From the Archives
    by Charlotte Jacobson (Volume 28: Page 342)

BERNTS, OLAF
Papers of a Norwegian-born attorney who came to the United States in 1907. He began service with the Norwegian consulate in Chicago in 1907 and was consul general, 1920-1936. In 1931 he received the knight’s cross of the royal order of St. Olav.

BOECKMANN, CARL L.
Records of a Norwegian-born artist who came to the United States in 1887. They were collected by a granddaughter for an exhibition of Boeckmann paintings held in the Hennepin County (Minnesota) Government Center, October, 1976.

BRACK, JOSEPHINE
Papers of a St. Paul woman who was a leader in Norwegian-American events, including the Norwegian-American Centennial activity, 1925, and of such organizations as the Norse-American Centennial Daughters and the Minnesota Leif Erik-son Monument Association. She was also an officer of the group that administered Lyngblomsten Home for the Aged in St. Paul.

DAHL (ØKSENDAHL), NELS TOBIAS
An autobiography covering ancestry, childhood in Norway, emigration to Wisconsin, 1867, and life as a farmer and businessman in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota.

FREMSTAD, OLIVE
Recordings of operatic arias made by a soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, New York, who was born of Swedish and Norwegian parentage. She migrated to Minnesota in the 1880s with her parents. After study in the United States and in Germany, she became a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company, for whose performances she sang all the principal Wagnerian roles.

FUGLESTAD, TORKEL T.
“Memories from the School of Life,” an autobiography of a Norwegian-born farmer who migrated in 1883 and lived at Hannaford, North Dakota.

HANSEN, JEAN SKOGERBOE
“History of the John Anderson Publishing Company of Chicago, Illinois,” a master’s thesis at the University of Chicago, 1972.

HAUGAN, HERMANA RYE
Papers of a woman who was active in Norwegian organizations in Chicago and was a leader in relief work for Norway during and after World War II. Some of her husband’s papers are included; he was Reidar Rye Haugan, a journalist and editor associated with Skandinaven.

HIGHLAND, IRVING
Correspondence and other papers relating to the Society for the Preservation of Norwegian Culture, the Norwegian Culture Endowment Fund, and to the establishment of a professorship in Norwegian at the University of Chicago, October, 1961.

HOLBERG, RUTH LANGLAND
Biographical notes and a manuscript, “Musings.” The notes include a bibliography of the forty children’s books written by Mrs. Holberg.

HOVDEN, GEORGE JOHNSON
Civil War diary (1863-1865) of a second lieutenant in the Fifteenth Wisconsin Regiment. After the war he lived on a farm near Ridgeway, Iowa.

JENSEN, BIRGITH
Clippings, souvenirs, and pictures concerning a Chicago woman and her activities in the Norwegian organizations of that city.

JENSENIUS, BERTRAM
An extensive collection of the papers of a Norwegian-American journalist and author who came to the United States in 1922. In 1958 he took over the Chicago newspaper Viking, renamed it Vinland, and published it until his death in 1976. He was a leader in the Norwegian organizations of Chicago. He was also the author of four books: Deilig er jorden (Oslo, 1948), Calling on Eternity (New York, 1956), Misjonærens sønn (Oslo, 1972), and Misjonærbarna paa korsteig (Oslo, 1973).

LIPSCHUTZ, WENDY
A student’s paper, “Norwegian-Americans in La Salle County, Illinois, 1825-1926,” based on interviews with five residents of La Salle County, two of whom were descendants of the “Sloopers.”

LOKENSGARD FAMILY
A series of reminiscences translated and bound into one volume “printed for the Lokensgard kindred.”

McMAHON, RUTH LIMA
Papers concerning the settlement of Griggs County, Dakota Territory, beginning in 1881. They include letters written by Ole Lima and his wife Martha.

MORDT, ANDERS L.
Copies of papers relating to the history of the Anders L. Mordt Land Company, Guymon, Oklahoma, and to the settlement of Oslo in Hansford County, Texas, in the early 1900s.

NELSON, CARL
Memoirs, poems, humorous squibs, and biographical data of a Norwegian-American editor and poet who lived in Cando, North Dakota.

OHME, THOR
“From the Cradle to the Grave,” the autobiography of an emigrant from Hardanger who came to the United States in 1909. The account includes his activities in Norwegian-Amen can organizations: Sons of Norway, Hardangerlaget, and Bygdelagenes Fællesraadet.

OLSEN, M. M.
A pamphlet dealing with a Norwegian immigrant family, four sons of which were Seventh-Day Adventist ministers; another son was a physician in a Seventh-Day Adventist Health Care institution.

OSLO POSTEN
Microfilm copies of scattered issues (1910-1913) of a Norwegian newspaper published in Guymon, Oklahoma.

QUAM, NELS
Autobiography of a Norwegian-born school superintendent whose career in America also included the administration of Ebenezer Home in Minneapolis, 1946-1962.

PETERSEN, PETER
Reprint of an article, “A New Oslo on the Plains: Anders L. Mordt Land Company and Norwegian Migration to the Texas Panhandle,” published in Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, 1976.

RAMSTAD, ANDERS WILLIAM
Biographical sketches of a Norwegian-American clergyman and educator who served as a faculty member and administrator at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, 1925-1961.

SELJAAS, HELGE
Translation of Et aar i Utah, eller Mormonismens hemmeligheder, by Julie Ingeröd, published in Chicago, 1867.

SØYLAND, CARL
Papers of a Norwegian-born journalist and author who migrated to the United States about 1920. In 1926 be began his association with Nordisk Tidende, in Brooklyn, of which he was chief editor, 1940-1962. He had two books published in Norway: Langs landeveien,1929, and Skrift i sand, 1954. He was a leader in the cultural and intellectual life of the Norwegian colony in Brooklyn. He was made knight, first class, in the royal order of St. Olav, 1950, and commander of the same order, 1959.

STEEN, MALENA ABELSDATTER ISENE
Memoirs of an immigrant who left Norway in 1870 and finally settled with her husband and family at Clinton, Minnesota.

TESLOW, ANDERS N.
Translation of a diary by a Norwegian-born tradesman and farmer who came with his wife and family to Winneshiek County, Iowa, in 1862. In 1865 they moved to a farm in Freeborn County, Minnesota.

TINGELSTAD, GERTRUDE
Scandinavians in the Silverton Country, a pamphlet telling the story of pioneers in the Willamette Valley, Oregon, told by the granddaughter of a couple who arrived in 1892.

TUVE FAMILY
Families of the Five Tuve-Tuff-Tew Brothers, a history of the descendants of Gulbrand and Torbjør Tuve. A son, Anton, was president of Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and four grandchildren - George, Merle, Rosemund, and Richard - became distinguished scholars.

WIGELAND, ANDREW E. and G. NORMAN
A report covering the history of the Wigeland Professorship in Norwegian Studies at the University of Chicago, 1975.