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

1456. WILLIAMSON, ERIK LUTHER. THESIS (1987), ARTICLE (1990), DISSERTATION
(1991). 3 items. P 1472.
“Norwegian-American Lutheran Churchwomen in North Dakota: The Ladies Aid
Societies,” a University of North Dakota Master of Arts thesis, May 1987, 100 pages.
The study covers societies in 103 congregations (about 13 pecent of an estimated
800 Lutheran congregations in North Dakota) from 28 of the 53 counties, in the
period 1880 to 1930. The study concludes that “The Ladies Aid societies were the
centers of their congregations....Without the societies most...congregations would
not have survived.”
“‘Doing What Had to Be Done’: Norwegian Lutheran Ladies Aid Societies of North
Dakota,” North Dakota History, volume 57, no. 2, 1990. An article based on the thesis
described above.
“The Norwegian Short-term Parochial School (Religionsskole ) in North Dakota
Lutheran Congregations, 1880s-1930s,”a University of North Dakota Doctor of Arts
dissertation, 1991, 87 pages. Williamson’s Master of Theology thesis, Luther
Seminary, St. Paul, 1977, titled “Jon Norstog, Norwegian-American Author and Lay
Theologian (1877-1942).”
1457. WILLMAR LUTHERAN BIBLE SCHOOL. PAPERS, 1921-1923. 7 items. P 531.
Catalogues and correspondence.
1458. WILLMAR SEMINARY. PAPERS, 1882-1965. 2 boxes. P 536.
Articles, correspondence, catalogues, record books, reports, photographs,
programs, and a scrapbook concerning a Lutheran secondary school at Willmar,
Minnesota (1893-1919).
1459. WINCHESTER ACADEMY, 1973- . PUBLICATIONS. 2 folders. P 937.
An organization which sponsors literary and educational projects clustered around
American Studies. The academy publishes monographs in an Ethnic Heritage
series and a magazine, The Winchester Academy Round Table. The file contains issues
for 1975, 1976, 1983, and 1986, Peer Strømme’s Memoirs of a Winchester Childhood, and
Peer Strømme’s Noraville Stories.
1460. WINGER, BJORN (1892-1945). PAPERS, 1916-1940. 8 folders. P 1379.
Poems, stories, and an upublished novel of a Norwegian-American teacher,
folklorist, and writer. He graduated from St. Olaf College in 1914 and received his
M.A. degree fom Indiana University in 1930. He taught English in an Indianapolis
high school from 1916 to 1941, save for military service in France during World War
I.
The papers include infomation about his father, Anders Winger (1861-1928), a
Norwegian actor who emigrated in 1882 and lived in Minnesota the rest of his life.
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