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

“Random Recollections” of a Norwegian American who grew up in Polk County,
Wisconsin, but who spent much of her life in or near Northfield, Minnesota.
1065. PETERSEN, BERTHE C. (1872-1940). PAPERS. 17 items. P 818.
Copies of clippings concerning a Norwegian-born Chicago resident. Petersen was
active in Norwegian National League, president of the Federation of Norwegian
Women’s Societies, served on the Norse American Centennial Committee, and
promoted the idea of Leif Erikson Day.
1066. PETERSEN, FRANKLIN (1862-1939). PAPERS, 1889-1939. 4 folders. P 772.
Manuscripts of three sea stories (169, 93, and 267 pages) and four poems by a
Norwegian-born New York City editor, poet, and railroad employee. Two of the
stories were published in 1938 in Decorah-Posten and Skandinaven. Petersen was
editor of Nordisk Tidende from 1907 to 1911, and the founder of Det nye Norge in 1911,
and author of two collections of poems: Ensomme frivagtsstunde (1900) and Siv i
strømmen (1907). File includes three articles by Petersen that appeared in Nordisk
Tidende, October 16, 23, and May 8, 1924.
1067. PETERSEN, PETER L. ARTICLES. 2 items. P 854.
“A New Oslo on the Plains: Anders L. Mordt Land Company and Norwegian
Migration to the Texas Panhandle” an offprint (pages 25-54) of an article first
published in the Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, 1976; and pamphlet titled A
Diamond Jubilee: Seventy Five Years of Lutheranism in the Texas Panhandle, pamphlet.
1068. PETERSON, C. STEWART. SCANDINAVIAN SETTLEMENTS, 1938. 6 typescript
pages. P 307.
Survey of early Scandinavian settlements in 28 states.
1069. PETERSON, GERHARD AUGUSTINE (1891-1956). PAPERS, 1913-1956. 4 folders.
P 1324.
Biographical data, clippings, photos, sermons, and poems of a Norwegian-
American Lutheran minister and 1916 graduate of St. Olaf College. He studied a
year at Menighetsfakultetet in Oslo. After serving in several parishes he became
Executive Secretary for the Zion Society for Israel, 1943-1952.
1070. PETERSON, HENRY J. ( 1880-1957). BIOGRAPHY, 1935. 1 item, 3 typescript
pages. P 310.
A biographical sketch of Aven Nelson (1859-1952), president of the University of
Wyoming and professor of botany at the same institution.
1071. PETERSON, HJALMAR. POEMS AND SONGS. 10 items in 1 folder. P 1084.
“Olle i Skratthults” Nya Viser och Historier, a collection of poems and songs, compiled
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