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1936. Swansen has contributed four articles to NAHA Studies and Records, volumes
4, 9, 10, and 11.
1328. SWEDISH-AMERICAN ARCHIVES. CATALOG. 1 item. P 1479.
“The Jacobson Index: The Manuscript Collections in the Swedish-American
Archives of Greater Chicago.” Descriptions of 30 collections, varying in size from 1
to 139 manuscript boxes. Each description is separately paged.
1329. SWEDISH PIONEER HISTORICAL SOCIETY. REPORT, 1978. 1 item. P 985.
“The Swedish Pioneer Archives,” a listing of the archival collection stored at the
Seminary of North Park College, Chicago, Illinois.
1330. SWENDSEID, CLARENCE. FAMILY HISTORY, ca. 1950. 61 typescript pages. P
376.
“The Men from Telemark,” the story of Rolleiv Svendseid and his family, who
migrated in 1867 from Telemark, Norway, settling first in Fillmore County,
Minnesota, and then in 1883 at Nelson, North Dakota. Among the topics treated are
politics, church, higher education, agriculture, and financial depressions.
1331. SWENSON, MAGNUS (1854-1936). PAPERS, 1927-1938. 11 items. P 377.
Articles, clippings, and biographical material recounting Swenson’s contributions
as a chemical engineer; “Ancestral Voices, part II: Magnus Swenson—The Last
Viking,” 993 typescript pages, compiled by Abigail Davis Curkeet, a
granddaughter. See article on Swenson by Olaf Hougen in NAHA Studies and
Records, volume 10, 1938.
1332. SYFTESTAD, PAUL OLESON (1816-1902) and SYFTESTAD, PAUL P. (1859-1940).
BOND, 1882, AND FAMILY HISTORY. P 378.
Copy of document reminiscent of the Norwegian kaar brev, drawn up in Dane
County, Wisconsin, stipulating conditions under which the father conveyed his
farm to his son; and “The Syftestad Family Since 1800,” by Beulah Folkedahl.
1333. SYMRA SOCIETY (founded 1907). HISTORY, 1957, 1975. 3 items. P 1293.
A commemorative pamphlet on the 50th anniversay of a society which was
founded to assure support for the publication of Symra, a literary magazine started
in 1905.
A history of the periodical Symra, prepared by Einar Haugen for the Norwegian
Immigration Sesquicentennial in 1975, and a listing of contents (by volume) of ten
volumes of the journal with a broad subject index by Erik Christianson are
included, as is a Kristian Prestgard article,”Hvordan skriftet Symra blev til,”Decorah
Posten, December, 1941.
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