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

P 603.
Papers and scrapbooks of a farmer of Hayward, Minnesota, including a farm
auction bill from 1902.
1347. TEXAS, BROWNSBORO. CLIPPINGS, 1976. 5 items. P 870.
Clippings and programs concerning the erection of an historical marker for the
Brownsboro Norwegian Lutheran Cemetery, for which the land was donated by
Ole Reierson who came to Texas from Norway in 1839. Also a passenger list of the
ship Alisto, which arrived at New Orleans on June 9, 1845; it includes the names of
ten Norwegians, among them Ole Reierson.
1348. TEXAS LUTHERAN COLLEGE. PAPERS, 1928-1945. 3 items. P 529.
Catalogues and brochures of a junior college and academy at Seguin, Texas, with
which Clifton Jr. College later merged.
1349. TEXAS NORWEGIANS. PAPERS. P 1131.
An open file consisting of letters, clippings, articles, news releases, etc. concerning
Texans of Norwegian ancestry who have achieved distinction in various fields.
1350. THANE, BJARNE M. POEMS, 1935-1950. 33 items. P 1132.
Typewritten copies of Norwegian and English poems written by an “old timer” in
Ketchikan, Alaska. One poem, “Hilsen til Statminister Nygaardsvold,” was
published in Sanger-Hilsen, March, 1943.
1351. THARP, PATRICIA BODDY. REPORT, 1983. 1 item. P 1240.
“From Emigrant with an E to Immigrant with an I...,” a copy of a 26-page paper
presented to the Dhahran Saudi Arabia Genealogical Society. The paper deals with
general aspects of Norwegian emigration from 1830 through World War I. The
concluding section is a series of “America Letters” from the 1880s.
1352. THESEN, OLAF. DISSERTATION, 1951. 1 item, 96 typewritten pages. P 1150.
“Trekk ved Utvandringa fra Ringsaker 1839-95.” The dissertation (University of
Oslo doctor’s degree) deals with conditions in Ringsaker which created and
encouraged the “America Fever”: agriculture, farm economics and machinery,
America letters, depressions, population explosion, California gold, and new
processes of manufacture and labor.
1353. THOMASON, THOMAS (1839-1913). PAPERS, 1862-1911. 9 folders. P 1258.
Copies of various autobiographical, genealogical, and miscellaneous writings of a
carpenter who emigrated from Arendal to Dane County, Wisconsin, in 1861. In 1867
he settled in Stevens County, Minnesota, where he farmed and served in many
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