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Aagot Raaen Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 8
Overview
The Aagot Raaen Papers contain research material and manuscripts for her book Grass of the Earth, correspondence including letters sent to the teachers and school officers by Miss Raaen while she was the Superintendent of Schools of Steele County, N.D., research on the the Hamarsbøn family in Norway and America, and several articles written by Raaen.
Dates:
1915-1953.
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Aagot Raaen Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 177
Overview
The Aagot Raaen Papers consist of photocopies of the original papers at the Hatton-Eielson Museum and Historical Association, copied with their permission. Her diaries from Sept. 1939 to Sept. 1941 are very detailed, documenting her teaching in the Newburgh community, personal feelings, and social affairs. The handwritten 1873-1938 "diary" (ca. 42 leaves) as Raaen called it, is more accurately a chronology of her life and of the Raaen family compiled many years later. The family papers include...
Dates:
1798-1957; Majority of material found within 1890-1957
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Aagot Raaen Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo 527
Abstract
The Aagot Raaen was a Norwegian-American author of the book Grass of the Earth, and the Superintendent of Schools of Steele County, N.D.
Dates:
1870s-1950s
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Alfred Aasland Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 655
Abstract
Typed summary of interview by Frank Herman and Leonard Sackett with Alfred Aasland concerning his father, Ole Aasland, who worked on the Grandin farm.
Dates:
1956.
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Arne and Josephine Gronbeck Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 873
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (4 leaves) with corrections concerning his work on the Helendale Farm. Includes some mention of J.B. Powers, his son Allie, and Gronbeck's wife Josephine Vangsness Gronbeck who worked as nursemaid and cook on the Helendale Farm.
Dates:
1957
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“As I remember It”, the Iver Lund Reminiscence
Collection
Identifier: SC 807
Abstract
Reminiscence (20 leaves), likely written in 1998, by Iver Lund, who was born in 1918 the son of Christ and Kristine (Loken) Lund, documents his growing up on a farm at Zenith, N.D. near Belfield and attending Dickinson State Teacher's College from which he graduated in 1941 before entering the military. Reminiscence includes reprints of article by Lund published in North Dakota Outdoors in 1992. Collection also includes several newspapers articles by and about Lund.
Dates:
1998
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Besta : A Story of North Dakota Pioneers
Collection
Identifier: SC 583
Abstract
Photocopy of an article published serially in the Grand Forks herald. It contains the life of Karen (Erickson) Bakke, who settled in the Goose River Valley, Traill County, N.D. in 1871 with her Norwegian immigrant parents, Ole and Christiana Erickson. Includes mention of her early life in Wisconsin, moving to Mayville, N.D., living at Ft. Abraham Lincoln with her sister Emily, General Custer and his troops at Ft. Abraham Lincoln, meeting her husband, Ole Bakke, their wedding preparations,...
Dates:
1950-1951
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Birgit Berg Jones Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 1863
Abstract
Letter and notes on her later life written by son Norman, photocopy of her Norwegian nursing school certificate (1897), and her obituary.
Dates:
1897, 1967-1971
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Bjerke Family Reunion Minutes
Collection
Identifier: SC 85
Abstract
Photocopy of secretary's book for the Bjerke reunions, organized for descendants of Erick and Berthe Maria Bjerke, Norwegian immigrants, who settled near Hatton, N.D.
Dates:
1937-1980
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Bjugstad Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 800
Abstract
Genealogy of the Ole and Karen Bjugstad family. He emigrated from Vardal, Norway in 1866, living in Wisconsin with his parents before coming to Dakota Territory in 1881, settling near Finley, N.D.
Dates:
1978
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