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262. ELLESTAD, GILBERT B. (1860-1938). PAPERS. 16 items. P 756.
A biographical sketch, farm contract, invoices, an account book, and photographs of
a watchmaker, jeweler, and optician who lived at Lanesboro, Minnesota.
263. ELLINGSEN, JOHN (1855-1939). PAPERS, 1891-1960. 33 items. P 81.
Correspondence and articles of a Norwegian-born farmer and mason, Platte, South
Dakota, which discuss local church life, the snowstorm of 1888, the depression in
the 1890s, and World War I. References are made to Sven Oftedal, Theodor S.
Reimestad, and Georg Sverdrup.
264. ELLINGSEN, SVEIN. HYMNOLOGY, 1986. 2 items. P 1328.
“An Interview with Svein Ellingson,” 20 pages, reported in The Hymn, April, 1986.
The interview with the Norwegian hymn writer and translator took place at
Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in August 1985.
265. EMIGRANTEN (1852-1868). ARTICLE, 1972. 5 pages. P 800.
An issue of The Journal of the Civil War Token Society (Summer, 1972) containing an
article by David D. Gladfelter discussing Emigranten, an early Norwegian-American
newspaper.
266. EMIGRATION LISTS. RECORDS. Open file. P 1446.
Mainly computer-produced records of emigration from localities in Norway, and
often arranged in various ways: alphabetically, chronologically, by source, by
destination, etc. Includes some ship passenger lists. The following selected entries
illustrate the character of this collection: “Emigrants from Aurland, 1844-1924,”
based on church records, Bergen emigration lists, and Quebec shiplists;
“Aurlendinger i Amerika,” by Aasmund Ohnstad (1997), arranged by farm name;
“Emigranter fra Hallingdal, 1839 og framover”; “Utvandrer register 1836-1925 for
Hordaland”; “Emigranter fra Lesja, 1853-1949”; “Emigrants from Leksvik”;
“Emigrants from Sogndal” lists 3,283 emigrants, alphabetically by first name;
“Utvandrere fra Vang i Valdres, 1814-1867”; “Emigrants from Tingvoll” (Møre and
Romsdal) by year, 1869-1953; Emigrants from Nord Aurdal, Valdres”; “Emigrants
from Skaun, Nord Trøndelag, 1853-1924,” arranged by year with name index;
“Utvandringen til Amerika fra Totenbygdene, 1846-1869.”
Published compilations are in the NAHA books collection: Ein stad skal ein vera:
Utvandringen fra Vik i Sogn, by Rasmus Sunde, DL 596.V5S8 1989; Fåberg og
Lillehammer utvandringen, E184.S24F3 1968; Utvandrere fra Østfold, 1867-1901,
JV6734.U8 1988; Utvandringen ti Amerika: fra Biri/Snertingdal, Vardal/Gjøvik, 1846-1915,
E184.S44088; Utvandringen til Amerika frå Ringebu (1832-1930), by Einar Hovdhaugen,
1991, DL576. R48: H68513. Many bygdebøker in the the NAHA book collection also
include emigrant lists.
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