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

Andresen’s life in the United States.
44. ANDRESON, (ANDERSON) OLE (ca. 1822-1864). CORRESPONDENCE, 1864. 20
items. P 20.
Letters to his wife at Wiota, LaFayette County, Wisconsin, from a Norwegian-born
farmer who enlisted February 2, 1864, with Company H of the Third Wisconsin
Regiment of Infantry and was killed May 25, 1864, at Dallas, Georgia. Andreson
gives instructions to his wife regarding farm operations, purchase of land, and
collection of his pay. He describes the health and living conditions of his company,
the slaves he meets, destruction of property, and the battle engagement north of
Atlanta. Two letters from Rice Lake, Wisconsin, are descriptive of logging days.
45. ANDRESSEN, PETER (1825-1901). PAPERS, 1979. 39 items. P 1031.
Clippings from a Hawley, Minnesota, newspaper which published the “America
letters” of a pioneer farmer in Clay county, Minnesota. Written from 1869 to 1901 to
relatives in Rollag, Numedal, Norway, the letters cover aspects of pioneer life and
give news of family and friends. Andressen emigrated in 1869 and settled near
what became Rollag, Minnesota, in 1877.
46. ANFINSEN, TØRRES (b. 1816). PAPERS, 1819-1854. 6 items. P 797.
Immigration papers, citizenship papers, and transcription of a letter written from
Ottawa, Illinois, 1851.
47. ANNIVERSARIES. PAMPHLETS. P 21.
Open collection: birth, death, ordination, wedding, etc.
48. ANSTENSEN, ANSTEN (b. 1899). PAPERS, 1916. 2 items. P 892.
A “Sjøfartsbok,” with notations, 1916-1918, and a notebook titled “Norske Stiler,”
which may be from his college years. He graduated from St. Olaf College in 1925,
and later founded the German department at the University of Saskatchewan.
49. ANTHONISEN, GEORG B. PAPERS, 1934-1940. 8 items. P 22.
Papers of a Norwegian-born inventor and engineer, who emigrated in 1910, and
worked for the Great Northern Railway and the Minnesota Highway Department.
Correspondence and blueprints of his spring spikes and variable twisted track
spikes.
50. ANTHONSEN, CARL. PAPERS, 1923-1975. 5 items. P 956.
Excerpts from his journal, 4 pages, and biographical data about a Norwegian-
American who came to Boston ca. 1900.
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