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

1214. SEELEY, MABEL HODNEFIELD. PAPERS. 4 folders. P 1152.
Papers of a Norwegian-American author of mystery novels, some of which have
Minnesota settings. The file consists mainly of manuscripts, working papers,
correspondence, and clippings.
1215. SEIM, JOHANNES OLSEN. LETTERS, 1857-1872. 3 items. P 1143.
Letters to his family in Norway by an immigrant who came first to Lodi, Wisconsin,
and then settled in Winneshiek County, Iowa.
1216. SELNES, JOHAN. PAPERS,1919-1920. 1 folder and 4 volumes. P 1065.
The file contains poems, correspondence, stories, and articles by Selnes, and
biographical information about him. Of five collections of poems and stories,
Vestlandstoner (1918) was the only work to be published in the United States. He
contracted tuberculosis and spent some time in a sanatorium in Portland, Oregon.
He returned to Norway in 1920 where he remained. See En Amerikareise, med
nedtegnelser av J. A. N. Selnes fra hans reise i 1906 og hjemturen i 1920, by Bjarne J. M.
Selnes, Oslo, 1998, in the NAHA books collection.
1217. SEMMINGSEN, INGRID (1910-1995). PAPERS, 1966-1974. 2 folders. P 614.
Citation for an honorary degree, Dr. of Letters, St. Olaf College (1974), prepared by
Kenneth O. Bjork; a review of Gudrun Hovde Gvåle’s biography of Rølvaag and “A
Shipload of German Emigrants and their Significance for the Norwegian Emigration
of 1825”; “Etnisk historie i America,” from Heimen, no. 3, 1983; “Uppsalagruppen,”
a manuscript; “Til minne om Ingrid Semmingsen,” by Sivert Langholm, in Historisk
tidsskrift, no. 3, 1996; and a collection of clippings. Dr. Semmingsen was professor of
American history at the University of Oslo, specializing in the Norwegian
migration to America.
1218. SERUM, A. O. (1849-1927). PAPERS, 1871-1927. 3 boxes and 1 volume. P 589.
Correspondence, reports, speeches, articles, clippings, and account books of a
Norwegian-born farmer at Halstad, Minnesota. The papers include school district
reports; articles and letters treating the early days in the Red River Valley;
correspondence with Fuller and Johnson, farm machinery company, Madison,
Wisconsin; and personnel at Augsburg and Augustana (Marshall, Wisconsin)
seminaries. The clippings include items on synod controversies and letters from
World War I servicemen.
Serum held state and church offices, spoke on crop production, suffrage,
monopoly, cooperatives, and local history, was the first teacher in his district, the
first president of the Selbulag, and the author of “Nybyggerliv i Red Riverdalen” in
Selbygbogen, 2 (1931).
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