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

160. BROWN, MAGDALENE PREYSZ. PAPERS 1882-1981. 12 items. P 1187.
Letters, postcard messages, an autobiography of Christoph Preysz and a
Hendrickson family history, all of which relate to Mrs. Brown, a Kenilworth,
Illinois, resident.
161. BRUCE, GUSTAV MARIUS (1879-1963). PAPERS, 1860-1957. 7 boxes. P 463.
Correspondence, reports, clippings, and photographs of a Norwegian-born
Lutheran clergyman, theological professor, author, editor, and lecturer.
Bruce immigrated to Yankton County, Dakota Territory, in 1884; attended Fremont
College, Red Wing Seminary, University of South Dakota, Temple University
(Ph.D.), and Hartford Seminary (D.D.). He was a minister in South Dakota, Illinois,
Minnesota, and Nebraska parishes; teacher in the public schools of Yankton
County, Jewell College, and Red Wing Seminary; professor at Luther Theological
Seminary (1917-1949); vice-president of the NELCA; and held a number of offices in
the church. He was publicity chairman of the Norse-American Centennial,
president of Østfoldlaget for 16 years, and of Bygdelagenes Fellesraad for 5 years.
He was editor of several religious periodicals, a contributor to newspapers and
magazines, and the author of several books on social and educational subjects.
Correspondence and reports in this collection deal with Knut Gjerset’s proposed
encyclopedia on Norwegian Americans, the Norse-American Centennial,
Norwegian pioneers in Canada, and bilingualism in the church. An article, “Lidt
pionærhistorie,” is an account of the blizzard of 1888, as it affected the Bruce
family. Correspondence regarding bygdelag affairs has been transferred to the
Bygdelagene Papers.
162. BRUFLAT ACADEMY AND BUSINESS INSTITUTE. PAPERS, 1890-1966. 18 items.
P 478.
Catalogues, constitution, correspondence, and reports of a Lutheran school located
at Portland, North Dakota (1889-1918), and a history of the school by Theodore
Gilbertson, one of its graduates.
163. BRUFLOT, ARNFINN (b. 1904). PAPERS, 1968-1974. 27 items in 1 folder. P 795.
Clippings of reviews and other papers concerning a poet born in Naustdal,
Sunnfjord, Norway. He emigrated in 1928 and settled in Tacoma, Washington,
where he engaged in various kinds of work, some of the time as a house-painter.
His volumes of nynorsk poems, published in Oslo by Det Norske Samlaget, have
been well received. Five volumes of poetry and one novel are in the library
collection.
164. BRUNSTAD, ART (1908- ). MEMOIR ca. 1983. 1 volume, 83 typescript pages. P
1397.
“Memoirs of a Norwegian Emigrant,” by a Norwegian-American chemist who came
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