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

American visit, 1894-1895, and clippings (1891-1940) about the mission and the
American Santal Committee.
981. NYHAMMER, LOUIS (d. 1959). PAPERS, 1941-1959. 21 items. P 1159.
Clippings, correspondence, and diaries of a Norwegian-born riverboat captain who
held master pilot licenses on the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi rivers. His story
is more fully told in Americans from Norway (1950), by Leola Nelson Bergmann.
982. OAK GROVE SEMINARY. PAPERS, 1908-1941. 10 items and 30 volumes. P 519.
Correspondence, catalogs, and reports of a Lutheran secondary school established
in Fargo, North Dakota, in 1906.
983. ODEGARD, ETHEL J. PAPERS. 8 folders. P 1250.
Manuscripts, correspondence, and notes of a Norwegian American who had a
varied and distinguished career in nursing before her retirement in 1957. She was
for a time the Executive Secretary of the Nurses’ Examining Board, District of
Columbia. Her article “Farewell to an Old Homestead,” which appeared in
Norwegian-American Studies, volume 26, deals with Merrill, Wisconsin, and the
home her parents established there in 1889.
984. ODENBACH, BRUCE A. HISTORY, 1970. 1 item. P 966.
“A History of the First Lutheran Church, Sioux Falls, South Dakota,” written for the
50th anniversary celebration of the church in 1970 by a high school teacher in Sioux
Falls. It also served as a Master of Arts degree thesis at the University of Nebraska,
Omaha.
985. ODIN LYCEUM BUREAU, INC. PAPERS, 1917. 5 items. P 294.
Papers of Norwegian-American Chautauqua and Lyceum, Minneapolis. Gisle
Bothne, Nicolay Grevstad, Jacob A. O. Preus, and Theodor S. Reimestad were
among the promoters and lecturers.
986. ODLAND, GUNDER THEODOR (1856-1935). DIARY, 1882-1914. 1 volume. P 791.
Diary of an emigrant from Stavanger beginning April 15, 1882, the day he left
Norway for America. The diary presents a record of his early experiences with data
on weather, expenses, letters, church attendance, visits, friends, and his work,
including an account of his earnings and expenditures at the close of each year.
Odland returned to Norway in 1888; he married Olena Haaland, and they returned
to his 160-acre homestead in Sargent County, North Dakota. The Odlands moved to
Eagle Bend, Minnesota, in 1892. The diary reveals a progressive entry of English
expressions mixed with the Norwegian, indicative of a gradual process of
Americanization.
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