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

136. BØRSETH, KARL (1886-1978). PAPERS, 1886-1978. 2 boxes. P 1054.
Clippings, photographs, correspondence, and genealogical records of a native of
Drammen who emigrated to Racine, Wisconsin, in 1909, but who returned to
Norway in 1953. The papers came to the NAHA Archives via Kjærsti Usler from
Drammen.
137. BOJER, JOHAN (1872-1959). PAPERS. 3 items. P 799.
Two photographs (one autographed) of the Norwegian novelist, and a newspaper
clipping, “Et eventyr, som er sandt,” February 1, 1923.
138. BONDEUNGDOMSLAGET OF NEW YORK (1925- ). PAPERS, 1967. 3 folders
and 2 volumes. P 1201.
Correspondence, photographs, programs and clippings of a society organized in
Brooklyn in 1925. Its stated purpose was “to unite fraternally young men and
women of Norwegian birth or descent of good moral character to meet together and
uphold the Norwegian language, customs and habits.”
The group built a cabin at Lake Telemark, Rockaway, New Jersey, in 1930 to serve
as social center and vacation site, and organized the popular Bondeungdomslaget
Folk Dance Group in 1962.
139. BONHUS, ANDREW (1875-1928). ARTICLE, 1898. 1 item. P 44.
Article, “Udvortes Glimrea,” by a St. Olaf College student.
140. BOOMER, JORGINE SLETTEDE. CLIPPINGS, 1932-1968. 3 items. P 873.
Clippings concerning the Norwegian-born wife of Lucius Boomer, for a time the
owner of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.
141. BORAAS, JULIUS (1871-1952). PAPERS, 1871-1952. 7 boxes. P 823.
Papers of a professor of education at St. Olaf College: articles on educational
subjects, a history of the Boraas family, correspondence, biographical data,
clippings, diaries (55 volumes, 1899-1951), and a record of Boraas’s public
addresses. Some material concerns his work as superintendent of schools in
Goodhue County, Minnesota, and with the Minnesota State Board of Education, on
which he served 28 years.
142. BORDEWICK, HENRY (1844-1912). PAPERS, 1891-1923. 5 folders. P 1204.
Letters, documents, photos, and other items of an emigrant from the Lofoten
Islands, who came to Chicago in 1864; here he enlisted and served on the
Mississippi River during the Civil War, after which he sailed on the Great Lakes for
about three years. He came to Granite Falls, Minnesota, in 1872, where he held
office as county auditor and postmaster. He was appointed to a consular post in
Christiania (now Oslo) in 1897, a position he held until his death. Most of the
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