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

Report about a school at Devils Lake, North Dakota (1902-1906), operated by
Sylvester P. Ronnei.
1153. RONVIK, GUSTAV KNUDSEN (b. 1873). PAPERS, 1873-1986. 1 folder. P 1466.
Copies of family documents, correspondence, photos, and union records of a
Chicago emigrant from Stavanger, who was a member of the Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers Union, beginning in 1902. He served on the steam yacht during the
Spanish-American War.
1154. ROOD, PAUL. PAPERS, 1978. 1 item, 15 pages. P 932.
List of source materials available in the State Historical Society at Madison,
Wisconsin, which relate to Norwegian Americans.
1155. ROREM, EDWARD (1880-1963). BIOGRAPHY, 1974. 1 volume, 75 typescript
pages. P 784.
“The biography of Edward Rorem, Pastor, Educator, Administrator,” by his
grandson, Paul Edward Rorem. Rorem’s work included service as a parish
minister, the presidency of Madison Lutheran Normal School (1921-1927), and the
superintendency of Sunset Home, Story City, Iowa (1943-1954).
1156. ROSBE, KRISTINA W. STUDENT PAPER, 1985. 1 item. P 1333.
“A Norwegian-American Dream,” a story told in the first person about a woman
returning to Norway for a visit. The account is based on the writer’s reading of
immigrant history of a Wisconsin community.
1157. ROSDAIL, J. HART (1914-1977). PAPERS, 1940s-1979. 6 boxes. P 1184.
A collection of materials used by a descendent of a “Slooper” family in compiling
the book The Sloopers: Their Ancestry and Posterity, 1961.
1158. ROSDAIL, OVE (1809-1890). LETTERS, 1847-1849. 2 items. P 332.
Two letters to Rosdail, La Salle County, Illinois. One from Lars Ellickson, Company
G, 1st Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Santa Fe, New Mexico, concerns the death of
Rosdail’s brother-in-law. The other, from Ole Johnson, Kendall, New York,
concerns sale of land.
1159. ROSENDAHL, PETER JULIUS (1878-1942). CARTOONS, 1918- . P 1050.
Bound copies of the first, second, and eighth compilations of “Han Ola og Han
Per,” the only continuous Norwegian cartoon published in America. The series
appeared in Decorah Posten from 1918 to 1942, with re-runs until the paper was
discontinued in 1972. The creator was a farmer near Spring Grove, Minnesota, the
son of immigrant parents from Norway.
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