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

Letters from relatives and friends in Norway to an immigrant from Heddal who
came to Chicago in 1924. He was an active member of Bondeungdomslaget,
Leikarringen, Heimhug, and the Chicago Norske Theater. A brief sketch from
Vinland, December, 1965, is included.
1249. SMELAND, ASLAK NELSON. PAPERS, 1855-1867. 3 items. P 356.
Copy of a letter and a typescript translation of another, both from Four Mile Prairie,
Texas, by a cobbler, describing geography, government, settlements, health,
farming, Indians, church, and school. Also a 12-page typescript biography of
Smeland by his great-granddaughter, Mildred Hogstel.
1250. SMELAND, H. G. (b. 1872). BOOKLET, 1932. 39 pages. P 761.
Reconstruction and Readjustment, Stockton, California, deals with reorganization of
the U.S. government and calls for social and economic reform. Smeland emigrated
in 1892.
1251. SMEMO, KENNETH. BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1976. 1 item. P 1357.
“Norwegians in North America,” a Balch Institute reading list which includes “To
the Promisd Land,” the story of Hans Nesvodmoen (Hans Olsson) who emigrated
in 1883 from South Trøndelag to a Norwegian colony at Lake Hendrick, Dakota
Territory, and for whom the dream of a promised land was fulfilled.
1252. SMITH-JOHANNSEN, HERMAN (b. 1875). CLIPPING, 1979. 1 item. P 1087.
“The Old Man and the Ski,” by William Oscar Johnson, which appeared in Sports
Illustrated, December, 10, 1979, concerning a Norwegian-born Canadian citizen, a
“man many credit with bringing skiing as a sport to the North American continent.”
1253. SOCIETY OF NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN ENGINEERS. NEW YORK (1925- ).
PAPERS, 1975. 4 items. P 969.
Articles published in Nordisk Tidende, March and April, 1975, regarding the 50th
anniversary of the founding of the Society; and two histories, 1950 and 1975, 59 and
104 pages. The name was Norwegian Engineers’ Society of New York until 1969.
1254. SOCIETY OF SCANDINAVIAN-AMERICAN ARTISTS (BROOKLYN).
CATALOG, 1932. 1 item. P 1478.
Photocopy of “Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by the Society
of Scandinavian American Artists, April 11 to May 15, 1932,” Brooklyn Museum, 24
pages. Cites 299 works by 88 artists and their addresses.
1255. SØNNELAND, SIDNEY GAYLORD (1891-1978). PAPERS. 4 boxes. P 752.
Papers of a Norwegian-American physician and his family. Sonneland practiced in
Los Angeles, California, and established the S. G. Sonneland Foundation at the
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