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

739. LIUM, SYVERT JENSEN. NOTES, 1867. 1 item. P 1192.
Translations by Sigvald Støylen of fragments found in a notebook kept by an
immigrant from Orkedal, Norway, to Dunn County, Wisconsin.
740. LJONE, ODDMUND. RADIO SCRIPTS. 22 typescript volumes in 3 folders. P 790.
Scripts for three series of programs given over Norwegian broadcasting under the
cover title Nybyggerne. The first two scenes involve seven episodes, the third has
eight. Each episode approximates 30 pages.
741. LOCAL HISTORY. COLLECTION. P 1523.
A continuing file for newspaper clippings and other materials which describe
specific communities where Norwegians settled. References to similar accounts
found in other collections are added as they are identified. Currently the collection
consists of four boxes: 1. Canada. Alaska-Michigan. 2. Minnesota. 3. Michigan-
North Dakota. 4. Oklahoma-Wisconsin.
742. LOE, HANS NILSEN (1840-1875). PAPERS. 6 items. P 747.
Diary and account books of a wagon-maker who came to America in 1862.
743. LØVENSKJOLD, ADAM. REPORT, 1847. 1 item. P 435.
Copy of an excerpt from the report by the Norwegian-Swedish consul in New York
to his government on the Norwegian settlements in the West (October 15),
published in Morgenbladet (November 22). The report contains data on housing,
water supply, forests, soil, health, wages, prices, taxes, crops, farm stock, wildlife,
American freedom, church situation (especially in Luther Valley and Koshkonong,
Wisconsin), and number of families in each settlement.
744. LOFTHUS, ORIN M. BOOK, 1984. 1 item. P 1277.
Pioneers in the Norwegian Settlement, a photocopied and copyrighted compilation of
the families of immigrants who came to Albany, Wisconsin, beginning in 1849.
According to the compiler the work is intended as “a layman’s history of an entire
settlement” which lists members of various family groups through four
generations.
For more on the Lofthus family, see C. H. Tollefsrude’s scrapbook on Rock County,
Wisconsin, P 1424, pages 636-638.
745. LOGAN SQUARE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, CHICAGO. RECORDS, 1908-1956. 1
volume. P 1341.
A church register that lists members, officers, etc. of the Square Norsk Baptist
Menighet. The minutes from 1908 to 1918 are in Norwegian. The file includes six
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