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

metropolitan New York.
693. LARSON, AGNES M. (1892-1967). CORRESPONDENCE, 1952-1961. 18 items. P
213.
Letters to Larson, professor of history at St. Olaf College, from former students in
the armed services.
694. LARSON, C. W. (b. 1881). ADDRESS, 1927. 14 typescript pages. P 214.
Manuscript of an address delivered by the Iowa-born chief of the Bureau of Dairy
Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture before the American
Institute of Cooperation in Chicago, dealing with cost and improvements in
methods of milk production, and the role of the cooperative.
695. LARSON, CHRISTIAN (1840-1919). BIOGRAPHY, 1917. 23-page manuscript. P
215.
An autobiography of a Norwegian-born Iowa farmer who was the father of
Laurence M. Larson, professor of history at the University of Illinois, the author of
The Log Book of a Young Immigrant, published by NAHA in 1939.
696. LARSON, CLIFFORD. BIOGRAPHY, n.d. 5 typescript pages. P 216.
A biography of Peder Borderud (1818-1890), the author’s grandfather, who settled
with his family at Kindred, North Dakota, in 1871. Topics treated are the trek from
St. Ansgar, Iowa, to the Red River Valley, purchase of land, beginnings of the new
settlement and its institutions, and relations with the Indians.
697. LARSON, EVER. PAPERS, 1824-1889. 22 items. P 217.
Correspondence and personal papers of an Ashippan, Wisconsin, resident,
including those of Ole Tollefson, Racine, Wisconsin.
698. LARSON, HAROLD (1901-1986). PAPERS, 1897-1937. 1 folder. P 1369.
Mainly letters from Norway to the family of a Norwegian-American educator.
Included are the citizenship papers of Michael Larson, 1885, and three letters by N.
J. Thomasberg, then a student at Augsburg Seminary, to members of the Larson
Family. Letters from 1928 to 1937 are to Harold from his mother.
Born in Sioux City, Iowa, Larson received his B.A. degree from Morningside
College, and his Ph.D. degree from Columbia University. The Kings College Press
published his dissertation, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson: A Study in Nationalism, in 1944. He
taught at different colleges, among them the University of Maryland and the
Pentagon. He worked for the United States National Archives and served as
historian for the United States Army and Air Force. The details of his professional
career are covered in a letter from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at
Columbia University, where a bulk of his papers are kept.
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