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

ooks and a number of short stories published in the Norwegian-American press.
The file includes photocopies of her letters to and from literary personalities like
Waldemar Ager, Simon Johnson. N. N. Rønning, John A. N. Selnes, and others. For
additional information see “Dorthea Dahl: Norwegian American Author of
Everyday Experience,” a University of Oslo thesis, 1977, by Hilde Petra Brungot, in
the NAHA library collection.
224. DAHL (OKSENDAHL), NELS TOBIAS (1863-1940). AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 1925. 25
typescript pages. P 939.
Covers ancestry and childhood in Vest-Agder, Norway, emigration to Wisconsin in
1867, and subsequent events in the life of a farmer and business man who lived in
Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota. Appended notes are dated March 30,
1939. The reminiscences were recorded by Valborg Dahl, a daughter.
225. DAHLBY, ANNE (MRS. OLE) (b. 1863). PAPERS, 1850-1918. 13 items. P 62.
An emigration document and letters to Mrs. Dahlby, a Norwegian-born farmer’s
wife at Mount Horeb, Wisconsin.
226. DAHLE, JOHN (1853-1931). PAPERS, 1890-1931. 3 folders. P 63.
Clippings, programs, photographs, and articles about a leader in the development
of church music among Norwegian Americans. Dahle emigrated in 1877, and was
an organist, composer, choir director, and music educator, teaching at church
colleges, and serving as professor of hymnology at Luther Theological Seminary. A
biographical sketch (34 typescript pages) by Nell Marie Hoyem is included as well
as duplicate copies of music and of music periodicals which are included in the
NAHA book collection.
227. DAHLE, RAGNA (1890-1918). BIOGRAPHY, 1923. 1 item. P 1398.
One of the Least, a 32-page biography of a Norwegian-American woman from Aitkin,
Minnesota, who became a Lutheran missionary teacher at Manasoa, Madagascar.
Astrid Awes, the author and Dahle’s sister, used the missionary’s diary as a partial
basis for her account. Includes a portrait of Dahle and a photograph of her grave in
Madagascar.
228. DAKOTA LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL. PAPERS, 1948-1957. 27 items. P 487.
Correspondence, brochures, journals, and reports of a Minot, North Dakota, school
(1948-1964).
229. DALBY, BARBARA M. ARTICLE, 1973. 1 item. P 1495.
“Illinois Records in the Norwegian-American Historical Archives,” Illinois State
Genealogical Society Quarterly, volume V, no. 2, pages 99-100.
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