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

y a Swedish immigrant who became popular in Scandinavian communities as a
singer and story-teller. “The Man who gave us Nikolina,” by Maury Bernstein is an
article excerpted from Earth Journal, Spring-Summer, 1977; “Snoose Boulevard,
1973”; “Olle i Skratthults populara success, Nikolina, ord och musik”; and an
English-language version of Nikolina, first popularized by Slim Jim and the
Vagabond Kid and later by Anne Charlotte Harvey in the 1970s.
1072. PETERSON, MARY HELENE (1863-1944). POEMS. 5 items. P 1061.
Manscript copy of lyric verse written by a Norwegian American who lived in
Clarinda, Iowa. A copy of The Lure of Iowa, 1925 (pamphlet), several essays and a
photograph of Peterson are included in the file.
1073. PETERSON, NIELS G. (1857-1923). PAPERS, 1892-1923. 3 folders. P 1323.
Biographical data, family history, correspondence and letters of call concerning a
Norwegian-American Lutheran minister who served parishes in the Midwest.
1074. PETERSON, SAMUEL P. CLIPPINGS, 1926-1930. 5 items. P 311.
Clippings of articles by a Norwegian-born meteorologist in the United States
weather bureau at Wichita, Kansas, recounting his experiences at sea for several
years during the 1890s.
1075. PETTERSEN, CARL WILHELM (b. ca. 1843). PAPERS, 1866-1886. 17 items. P
312.
Poems (presumably by Pettersen), and correspondence of a Madelia, Minnesota,
bricklayer who emigrated in 1867.
1076. PETTERSON, ANNA (1859-1924) AND ANDERS (1858-1938). LETTERS, 1884-
1889. 1 folder. P 1419.
“Ephraim Is My Home Now,” letters written to the parents of a young minister and
his wife who had been sent by the Moravian Church in Germany at the request of
the Provincial Elders Conference, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, as “suitable” for work
among the the Scandinavian members of the Moravian Church in Door County,
Wisconsin. Anna was Danish and Anders was Swedish. The letters, translated and
edited by a granddaughter, Lucille Petterson, were published in the Wisconsin
Magazine of History, volume 69, no. 3 through volume 70, no. 2, 1986-1987.
1077. PETTERSON, SØREN (1833-1917). CHURCH HISTORY, 1915. 1 volume, 46
pages. P 556.
Den gamle grund, a discussion of the approaching merger of the Norwegian Synod,
the United Church, and the Hauge Synod, of which Petterson was a member.
1078. PHOTOGRAPHS. 17 boxes and 5 folio boxes. P 655.
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