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

conversion, and election; position and participation of the laity in doctrinal
disputes and clerical leadership in such controversies; Augsburg College and St.
Olaf College; and the union movement that led to the 1917 merger. There are only
two letters by Schmidt.
Among the correspondents are M. O. Bøckman, C. L. Clausen (February 2, 1863), N.
J. Ellestad, O. J. Hatlestad, P. P. Iverslie (December 27, 1883), Kristofer Janson
(March 31, 1891), J. N. Kildahl, U. V. Koren, Laur. Larsen, A. Mikkelsen, Th. N.
Mohn, B. J. Muus, J. A. Ottesen, H. A. Preus, P. A. Rasmussen, Halvard Roalquam,
and H. A. Stub.
1209. SCHULTZ, APRIL ROSE. DISSERTATION, 1991. 192 pages. P 1500.
“‘A Peculiar People’: Celebration, Historical Memory and the Creation of Ethnic
Identity among Norwegian American in the 1920s.”
“This study...analyses the Norwegian-American Immigration Centennial, a national
celebration, as a strategic site for the invention of ethnicity. Through this
celebration, Norwegian Americans constructed their own, though quite contested,
vision of the past and the present, a social and cultural construction that both
accommodated and resisted dominant Anglo-American conceptions of
assimilation.”
A revised version was published by the University of Massachusetts Press, 1994, as
Ethnicity on Parade: Inventing the Norwegian American through Celebration. A Minnesota
History review (Winter 1996-1997) of the book is included.
1210. SCHULTZ, KARL JOHAN BERNER. MEMOIR. 1 item. P 1226.
“Bevegelsen gjennem livet,” a few reminiscences from his childhood by a
Norwegian who emigrated to the United States with his parents when he was five
years old. Schultz lived in the Chicago area.
1211. SEBJØRNSEN (OVERDALEN), LARS. LETTER, 1843. 1 item. P 435.
Copy of a letter written to relatives from Koshkonong Prairie, Wisconsin, which
gives specific information regarding wages, prices, money economy, topography,
religious freedom, weather, health, and reputation of the Norwegians in the area.
1212. SEBO, MILDRED M. NARRATIVE, 1954. 3 items, 33 typescript pages. P 613.
A history of the Sebu-Myhre family, an account of the family’s centennial
celebration and of their first Christmas in America, by a La Molle, Minnesota,
resident.
1213. SEBO, NIELS NIELSEN (b. 1820). CORRESPONDENCE, 1848-1865. 9 items. P
1198.
Family letters addressed to an immigrant who came to Winona County, Minnesota,
in the early 1850s. The file contains a summary of each letter.
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