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Bardi G. Skulason Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 252-Mss 1500
Abstract
Icelandic American lawyer and state legislator, of Mountain, N.D., and later of Oregon.
Dates:
1901-1955
Found in:
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Gardar Homemakers Club Records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 269
Abstract
The Gardar Homemakers Club was organized in 1926 at Gardar, N.D. and continued as an active club until 1985. Its records consist of Meeting Minutes, Treasurer’s Ledgers, Major Project Record Books, Project Instructions and Illustrations, Pioneer Mothers Biographies, Subject Files, and Scrapbooks.
Dates:
1926-1985
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Icelandic Letters Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 1025
Abstract
Two handwritten letters in Icelandic with handwritten English translations. One letter, written in 1890, from J. Petursson, Cash City, Canada to someone in North Dakota, mentions the cold, Icelanders in Canada, and threshers from Dakota. The other letter, also dated 1890, written by Stephen G. Stephansson, Greenwater, Iceland mentions family members, deaths of friends and a sister-in-law dying in childbirth. Provenance of letters unknown.
Dates:
1890
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Jón Jónsson Diary
Collection
Identifier: SC 834
Abstract
Mimeograph of typed translation of his diary (101 pages) covering 1873-1901. Begins with his farm at Mjoadal, Iceland; each year lists events by month, includes living expenses, income, and references to weather, friends, his correspondence, Literary Society membership, farming, and family members. Also notes how long he has lived in this location, and years of his marriage. Contains 10 page introduction with explanation of Icelandic terms and method of reckoning time, possibly written by...
Dates:
1873-1901
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Lauga Geir Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 1188
Abstract
Letters, program, and text of her pageant, "Expressions of Icelandic heritage in Pembina County," and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1953-1968.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Thorstina Jackson Walters and Emile Walters Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo 2010
Abstract
Collection compiled by Thorstina Jackson Walters includes various photographs of Iceland, Icelandic Americans and Icelandic heritage in America. Includes various portraits of Thorstina and Emile Walters including some of his art work and their home at Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Dates:
1920s-1950s.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Thorstina Jackson Walters and Émile Walters Papers,
Collection
Identifier: Mss 630
Abstract
The Thorstina Jackson Walters papers includes her research chronicling the Icelandic American community and their heritage in America. Her husband Émile Walters, was a well-known landscape artist.
Dates:
1918-1959.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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- Gardar Homemakers Club (Gardar, N.D.) 1
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