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

680. LA CROSSE LUTHERAN HOSPITAL. REPORTS, 1905-1923. 3 items. P 621.
Annual reports of a hospital founded in 1899 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, by a
corporation, some of whose members were affiliated with the Norwegian Synod.
681. LANDSVERK, OLE G. PAPERS, 1953-1969. 2 boxes. P 724.
Papers of the owner of Landsverk Electrometer Company, Glendale, California:
clippings, correspondence, and articles regarding the Kensington stone. Alf Monge
and Landsverk are the authors of Norse Medieval Cryptography in Runic Carvings
(1967) and other related works.
Includes 6 volumes of Monge cryptography work; 67 solutions of hidden dates and
ciphers in runic inscriptions worked out by Monge; and Norse Runic Inscriptions, by
Earl Syverson.
682. LANGELAND, KNUD (1813-1888). PAPERS, 1869-1888. 50 items in 2 folders. P
204.
Articles, correspondence, clippings, and legal papers of a Norwegian-born
journalist and author, containing Langeland’s views on political issues of the day;
his attack on the Norwegian Synod; and his defense of the common school. The
legal papers concern the ownership and financial policies of Skandinaven of which
he was the first editor (1866). Langeland is the author of Nordmændene i Amerika
(1888).
The file includes an 85-page handwritten manuscript of Langeland’s Norwegians in
America, part II, translated by Clarence Clausen. The clippings provide biographical
information about Langeland, his family and ancestry.
683. LANGELAND, SØLFEST. LETTER, 1877. 1 item. P 1449.
Copy of a letter from Amund Bjørnevik in Aalesund, Norway, to Langeland who
emigrated from Sunnylven, Søndmøre, in 1866, and moved to Hvidby Island,
Stanwood, Washington.
684. LANGLAND, HAROLD S. (1898-1986?). BIOGRAPHY, 1968. Pamphlet, 34 pages.
P 195.
A biography of Samuel S. Langland (1855-1928), a Norwegian-born Seattle attorney.
The file includes several clippings about Langland, one by Brenda Ueland
(February 17, 1955).
685. LANGLAND, JOSEPH (b. 1917). PAPERS, 1963-1964. 6 items. P 207.
A biography and critique of a second-generation Norwegian-American poet and
professor of English at the University of Massachusetts. Langland spent his early
life in northeastern Iowa and has written two volumes of poems, The Green Town
(1956) and The Wheel of Summer (1963). “Norwegian Rivers” is a poem written for the
sesquicentennial of the Norwegian migration, 1975. The file includes information
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