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

1428. VOLSTEAD, ANDREW J. (1860-1947). ARTICLE. 1 folder. P 871.
Copy of an article describing Congressman Volstead’s interest in farmers’
cooperatives and the 1922 Capper-Volstead Act and a collection of clippings (1902-
1947).
1429. VOXLAND, PAUL. CLIPPING, 1979. 1 item. P 1052.
The April 22, 1979, issue of the Minneapolis Tribune Picture Section, which was
devoted to a story and pictures of a Kenyon, Minnesota, Norwegian-American
farmer and his family and their activities throughout an entire year.
1430. WÆRENSKJOLD, ELISE TVEDE (1815-1895). LETTERS, 1851-1866. 2 items. P
435.
Copies of letters, one published in Morgenblad (June 17, 1852) and the second in
Addressebladet (February 20, 1867). The first letter was written in response to T.
Andreas Gjestvang’s request for information regarding Texas to counteract the dark
picture painted by Captain A. Tolmer in his series of letters which appeared in
Hamars Budstikke (1850-1851). In the second letter Mrs. Wærenskjold gives a detailed
account of the murder of her husband, Wilhelm.
1431. WAGBO, OLGA (b. 1907). LOCAL HISTORY, 1082. 1 item. P 1183.
“Reconstructed History of Early Immigants from Norway to East Jordan,” a 47-page
account of some 30 families who settled in Charlevoix County, Michigan, during
the years 1880-1929.
1432. WAHLGREN, ERIK. ARTICLE, 1980. 1 item. P 1133.
“The Norse Coin from Maine: Philology and Navigation,” by an emeritus professor
of the University of California, Los Angeles. It was published in The Norwegian
Numismatic Journal, March, 1980.
1433. WALDELAND, MARTIN E. (1876-1933). PAPERS, 1931-1933. 1 box. P 599.
Short stories, articles, poems, and correspondence of a Lutheran clergyman.
Waldeland served in Iowa parishes, was the chairman of his synod’s publicity and
transportation bureaus, and the author of short stories.
1434. WALDORF LUTHERAN COLLEGE. PAPERS, 1904-1964. 3 boxes. P 535.
Catalogues, brochures, bulletins, journals, and reports of a Lutheran academy
founded in 1903 (a junior college in 1920), located in Forest City, Iowa.
1435. WALOE, OLE C. (1872-1952). PAPERS, 1897-1953. 17 items. P 398.
Letters, certificates, and medals of a Norwegian-born army colonel Waloe
immigrated to Wisconsin ca. 1891; served in the United States Army in Cuba and
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