Guide to the ARCHIVES of The Norwegian-American Historical ...

585. INDEPENDENT REALTY COMPANY. PAPERS, 1922-1934. 192 items in 1 folder.
P 184.
Mainly correspondence and reports of a Northfield, Minnesota, firm whose
members were George O. Berg, P. O. Holland, Ole E. Rølvaag, Paul G. Schmidt,
and J. Jørgen Thompson. The correspondence and reports deal largely with land
investments in Northfield and in North Dakota.
586. INGVOLDSTAD, FRED W. ANTHOLOGY, 1932. 1 item. P 1218.
Red Shoes, a collection of poems compiled by a clergyman, with an introduction by
Edwin Markham. The poem “Ten Years After” was written by Ingvoldstad.
587. IOWA BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES. PAMPHLETS, 1914-1924. 2 items. P 639.
Constitution and history.
588. IVERSON, O. B. (1845-1940). ARTICLES, 1920. 7 items. 59 typescript pages. P
185.
Transcripts of articles written by a Norwegian-born surveyor, immigration
commissioner, and legislator of Stanwood, Washington, which were published in
the Stanwood News, concerning his work as immigration commissioner, his first trip
from South Dakota to Washington to explore the land, and about logging camps,
surveying, vegetation, soil, Indians, and settlers.
589. JAASTAD, ENDRE LARSEN (1846-1937). PAPERS, 1930-1937. 6 items. P 1096.
Letters and a manuscript written by an emigrant from Ullensvang, Hardanger, in
1869. He became a Lutheran minister serving a parish in Rushford, Minnesota,
1873-1920. Also, “History of the Rushford...Congregation and Autobiography of
Rev. Endre L. Jaastad, 3/29/20,” 49 typescript pages.
590. JAASTAD, HENRY O. (1872-1965). ARTICLES AND CLIPPINGS. 1 folder. P 1473.
Born on the Jaastad farm in Ullensvang, Hardanger, he emigrated with his family to
Deerfield, Wisconsin in 1886. In 1890 he began work in a furniture factory in
Marshfield, Wisconsin. He moved in 1902 to Tucson, Arizona, where he worked as
a carpenter and contractor. He opened an architectural firm in 1908 and during a
fifty year career planned over 500 buildings, including homes, schools, churches,
and commercial buildings. He served as mayor of Tucson from 1932 to 1947.
The file includes a description of the Reilly Funeral Home, designed by Jaastad;
random newspaper clippings; and “Henry O. Jaastad: Architect of Tucson’s
Future,” by Mona Lange McCroskey.
Letters from Jaastad are found in the E. Klaveness, B. Osland, and K. Gjerset
papers, P 551, P 574, and P 673. Also, see Kenneth Bjork’s Saga in Steel and Concrete,
pages 415-416.
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