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

American Centennial celebration in 1925, the Norse American Centennial
Daughters of St. Paul, and the Minnesota Leif Erikson Monument Association. She
was also an officer in the group which administered Lyngblomsten Home for the
Aged in St. Paul. The papers include some of these records.
149. BRAGER CHEESE COMPANY. RECORDS. 3 Items. P 1035.
Records of a Blanchardville, Wisconsin, cheese factory from its founding in 1887
until it discontinued operations in 1961. A 1961 newspaper clipping provides a
sketch of the company.
150. BRANDT, NILS (1824-1921). MEMOIRS. 1 folder. P 739.
Memoirs (1851-1855) of a Norwegian-born Lutheran clergyman who emigrated in
1851 to a parish at Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. The memoirs deal largely with his
travels as a home missionary in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Brandt was the
first Norwegian minister to preach west of the Mississippi River. The memoirs
were transcribed by Adolf Bredesen in 1923 and first published in Symra (1907).
They were republished in Decorah Posten in 1923, and in an English translation in
Decorah Journal in 1970. These articles are included, as are a number of clippings
(1910-1923) and articles published in 1914 and 1933 about Brandt’s 1869 missionary
visit to central Minnesota. Also included is his son Realf’s “Ungdomsminder fra
Decorah” (Decorah Posten, 1924); and Inga Bredesen Norstog’s “Til Diderikke
Brandts minne” (Jul i Vesterheim, 1950).
151. BREDESEN, ADOLF (1850-1913). ARTICLES, 1920-1923. 1 folder. P 46.
Articles of a Norwegian-born clergyman. “Mod Bennett-Loven, vidnesbyrd og
grunde,” 8 pages, no date. The Bennett-Law, passed in 1889, required school
attendence of children from 7 to 14 years of age in Wisconsin. The stipulation that
instruction be in English was opposed by supporters of the parochial schools.
“Slaveristriden i ny belysning” (offprint from Teologisk tidsskrift, January 1905), 34
pages. Article on Herman Amberg Preus (Decorah Posten, March 20, 1920; reprint of
an article which appeared in Symra, volume 6, 1910, pages 114-125).
152. BREISCH, AMY R. PAMPHLET (1993). 8 pages. P 1506.
I am the Good Shepherd tells of the Norwegian-American artist, Sara Kirkeberg
Raugland (1862-1960). The account emphasizes her altar painting “I am the Good
Shepherd,” originally in the York Lutheran Church, Blanchardville, Wisconsin, but
now located in its successor, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, New Glarus,
Wisconsin.
Raugland was born near Gunder, Clayton County, Iowa, to parents who emigrated
from Valdres. She studied art in Minneapolis and in 1891 married Carl Raugland
who ran a music store and composed and published music. Sara Raugland is
reputed to have made between 200 and 300 altar pieces. She ceased painting after
the death of her husband in 1918. The painting under special treatment is a copy of
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