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

699. LARSON, HENRIETTA (1884-1983). PAPERS, 1962-1984. 6 items. P 1276.
Clippings and an appreciative essay about a Norwegian-American historian who in
1959 was the first woman to be appointed to a full professorship in the Harvard
School of Business Administration. She is the author of the four-volume History of
the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey).
700. LARSON, JULIUS ANSGAR (1877-1976). PAPERS, 1910-1966. 305 items in 13
folders. P 1105.
Autobiography, pamphlets, and family correspondence of a Norwegian forester
who came to Connecticut in 1896 and was educated at Yale University, earning a
Master’s degree in forestry in 1910. After serving posts in Montana and Idaho he
joined the faculty of the Forestry Department at Iowa State University at Ames,
where he continued until retirement. Many letters are from members of Jenny
Spiechermann Larson’s family. She came from Oslo to Connecticut to work as a
governess where they met and married in 1911.
701. LARSON, LARS EIK. HISTORY, 1998. 1 item. P 1400.
“Norwegian Emigration to Canada, 1850-1874,” a University of Wisconsin at
Whitewater research paper, 71 pages.
702. LARSON, LAURIS (1862-1935). PAPERS, 1885-1951. 1 item and 13 volumes. P 218.
Daily weather records at Perley, Minnesota, and a biography of Larson.
703. LARSON, LEWIS A. (1850-1909). PAPERS, 1864-1965. 11 items. P 219.
Papers of a Norwegian-born Methodist clergyman: correspondence; Civil War
letters by his father, a Goodhue County, Minnesota, farmer; diaries (1882, 1886);
clippings; and a biography by Lester W. Hansen.
704. LA SALLE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. PAPERS. 6 items. P 962.
“Welcome to Norway, First permanent Norwegian Settlement in America,
Established 1834,” a brochure prepared by the Norway Improvement League;
“Focus on La Salle County,” a newspaper clipping concerning the grave of Cleng
Peerson’s sister, Carrie Nelson; “La Salle County Centennial: Directory of Former
Ottawa Residents, 1831-1931,” 48 pages; “Norwegians in Adams Township, La
Salle County, Illinois,” by James R. Glacking, in Illinois State Genealogical Society
Quarterly, volume VII, No. 2, 1975; and posters for 1982 celebration, Norway,
Illinois.
705. LAWRENCE, CARL G. (b. 1870). PAPERS, ca. 1969. 8 items. P 699.
A news release, a biographical sketch of John Lawrence, tributes to and a
photograph of Ernest Lawrence. Some of the papers concern the dedication of the
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