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

Several works concerning the author’s grandfather, L. M. Bjørn, and greatgrandfather
Nils Andreas Biørn: “The Leksvig Church—300th Anniversary,” a
translation, 4 pages. Nils Andreas Biørn served this Trondheim district
congregation from 1850 to 1863. A biography of L. M. Biørn cast in the form of an
autobiography, 1989, 108 pages. Supplementary notes: “L. M. Biørn and Gjermund
Hoyme,” and “L. M. Biørn as a Hymn Writer and Member of the Synodical Hymn
Committees,” 2 pages. See also Ludvig Marius Biørn Papers, P 1470.
113. BIORNSTAD, GISLE (1867-1940). PAPERS, ca. 1910-1939. 7 items. P 39.
Papers of a Norwegian-born physician who established a clinic and sanitarium in
Minneapolis. File includes newspaper clippings from 1923 to 1939, and two
pamphlets, The New Science of Curing Diseases and Twentieth Century Practice of
Medicine.
114. BIRKELAND, KARL S. (1853-1919). NORWAY LETTERS, 1872-1892. 40 items. P
1427.
Letters from family and friends to a Norwegian emigrant from Sunnfjord to
Michigan, 1872. He was a farmer at Benona, Oceana County, Michigan. Later letters
address him as Charles Burke. Six pages of notes on family history are included.
115. BIRKHAUG, KONRAD (b. 1892). WORLD WAR II. 364 typescript pages. P 742.
Birkhaug’s translation of his book, Televåg: Fiskeværet som tyskerne slettet ut i 1942,
Oslo, 1946. The translated title is “Tela Bay: The Norwegian Fishing Village
Destroyed by the Germans.“ Televåg, located on an island near Bergen, was an
important center of traffic with England during World War II. Several articles and
reviews are also included.
116. BJØRNSON, BJØRNSTJERNE (1832-1910). PAPERS, 1882-1939. 40 items in 1
folder. P 40.
Correspondence, clippings, essays, papers, personal reminiscences, 1932 centenary
observance, and commentary on his 1881 lecture tour in the Midwest. One letter is
by Bjørnson to Thoralv Klaveness concerning the latter’s book, Det Norske Amerika
(1904).
117. BJØRNSON, HALVOR (1868-1943). ADDRESS, 1922. Pamphlet, 32 pages. P 556.
Tidens saerlige krav til den lutherske kirke, an address presented at the 1919 Northern
Minnesota District Convention. It reviews the era’s special demands on the
Lutheran Church.
118. BJØRNSON, VALDIMAR (1906-1987). LECTURES, 1949. 3 items, 7 pages. P 41.
Three lectures delivered over WCAL, St. Olaf College radio station, October, 1948.
Titles are “The Viking Voyagers,” “Modern Migrations Begin,” and “Evaluating
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