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

100. BERGSTROM PAPER COMPANY, MENASHA, WISCONSIN (1904- ).
PAMPHLETS, 1975. 10 items. P 973.
General information, reports, and photographs of a paper manufacturing firm
founded by Dedrick W. Bergstrom, who came to Menasha at age five with his
parents from Christiania (now Oslo). He became a blacksmith, and later operated a
stove works. He bought the local Winnebago Paper Mills in 1904, which is now the
Bergstrom Paper Company, a producer of fine printing and writing papers from
recycled material.
101. BERNTS, OLAF (1870-1936). PAPERS, 1870-1936. 152 items in 8 folders and 1
volume. P 889.
Documents, correspondence, clippings, photographs, and a scrapbook of a
Norwegian-born attorney who came to the United States in 1907 and began service
with the Norwegian Consulate in Chicago in 1907. He was appointed Consul
General in 1920 and held that post until his death in 1936.
102. BERVEN, JACOB AMUNDSON (1850-1927). PAPERS, 1911-1925. 60 items in 1
folder. P 1122.
Clippings, consisting of an account of an emigrant journey in 1872 from Bergen to
Lee County, Illinois; poems and memorial tributes to friends, most of which were
published in Visergutten and in Lutheraneren. Berven, a native of Hardanger, moved
from Illinois to Radcliffe, Iowa, in 1882, where he was a farmer. Part of his written
work was compiled in Reisebreve og Digte, Radcliffe, Iowa, 1916.
103. BETHANIA COLLEGE. PAPERS, 1910-1921. 9 items. P 473.
Catalogs, correspondence, and reports concerning a Lutheran secondary school
located first in Poulsbo (1894-1896) and later in Everett (1904-1917), Washington,
under the auspices of the Lutheran Free Church.
104. BETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE. PAPERS, 1925-1938. 33 items. P 474.
Bulletins and catalog of a school at Mankato, Minnesota, founded in 1911 as a
Lutheran school for young women under the Synodical Conference, but in 1926
transferred to a group of ministers and laymen of the Norwegian Synod to provide
a college for their synod.
105. BETHESDA HOMES. PAPERS, ca. 1924-1957. 6 items. P 628.
A history (1896-1946) and a journal of a children’s home and a home for the aged at
Beresford, South Dakota.
106. BEUTLICH, ANTON (1855-1929). PAPERS, 1980. 8 items. P 1093.
Biographical notes and other data about an immigrant from Stavanger who came to
Chicago in 1887 and became a commercial portrait artist, working with other
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