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Ødehøg, Sweden, educated in Sweden and London, she served as a governess in England and later as a teacher in Norway. In 1934 she married Lars Fletre, a Norwegian sculptor who had earlier lived in Chicago. They moved to Chicago with their three children in 1954, where they became active in the many Norwegian groups which were flourishing at the time, notably DeLiSa (Det literaer Samfund), Nordmanns Forbundet, Norwegian National League, and others. She served on the Sesquicentennial Commission, was co-editor of From Fjord to Prairie, for which together with other services she was awarded the Medal of St. Olaf in 1976. As a staff writer for the newspaper Vinland, she contributed “hundreds” of articles to that paper. She was a familiar figure at symposiums and conferences where she presented papers dealing with Norwegian cultural life in Chicago. During her last years she was helpful in collecting information for A Century of Urban Life, by Odd S. Lovoll, published by NAHA in 1988. 316. FLETRE, LARS (1904-1977). PAPERS, 1977. 2 items. P 943. Tributes to a sculptor who came from Voss, Norway, to Chicago in 1923. He returned to Norway in 1933, but came back to Chicago in 1954. 317. FLOAN, PETER O. (b. 1861). REMINISCENCES, 1941. 1 item, 16 typescript pages. P 96. “Reminiscences from the Pioneer Days in Goodhue County, Minnesota,” containing names of early settlers and anecdotes concerning methods of acquiring land, establishment of churches and schools, fear of Indians, and general community life. 318. FLOM, GEORGE TOBIAS (1871-1960). ARTICLES. 1 box. P 1366. Offprints of 42 articles and reviews published in The Journal of English and German Philology and other journals by a distinguished Norwegian-American philologist. Flom was born in Utica, Wisconsin, attended Albion Academy, the University of Wisconsin, and other American and European universities. He received the Ph.D. degree at Columbia University in 1899, was Professor of Scandinavian Languages and Literature at the University of Iowa, 1900-1909, and at the University of Illinois, 1909-1927. In 1911 he organized the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study and served as editor of that society’s journal. He was also an associate editor of the Journal of English and Germanic Philology. Among his books was A History of Norwegian Migration to the Year 1848. Also, Bjørnson’s Synnøve Solbakken, ed. with introduction, notes and vocabulary, and an appendix on Norwegian phraseology, by George T. Flom. 221 pages. Clippings (1903-1940), a brief biography, perhaps by C. G. O. Hansen, and a letter from Flom to Hansen, May 23, 1907. 319. FLUGUM, OLE NILSEN (1862-1939). PAPERS, 1865-1939. 2 boxes. P 540. Articles, clippings, poems, records, and scrapbooks of a Norwegian-born farmer 55
and writer. The scrapbooks of clippings from Visergutten and Decorah-Posten contain biographies of pioneers in Winnebago County, Iowa, including those of Jens M. Dahl and Niels Chr. Flugum, written by Flugum. A scrapbook of clippings from Amerika (1900) contains letters concerning the Boer War and recent Norwegian literature. The Lutheran church record book contains rosters of members and cites their yearly contributions to the Winnebago, Fertile, West Prairie, North Prairie, Ellington Prairie, and Lake Mills congregations (1865-1887). 320. FOLK ARTS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA. PAPERS, 1943-1955. 209 items in 2 folders. P 97. Correspondence and reports concerning membership, dues, dinner meetings, recordings of folksongs, and publication of a Midwest folklore journal. The foundation, organized in about 1944, flourished for a decade. 321. FOLKEDAHL, BEULAH (1896-1970). PAPERS, 1958-1971. 53 items in 4 folders. P 767. Correspondence, photographs, tributes, and research notes of the curator of the NAHA Archives from 1960 to 1971. 322. FOLKEDAHL, KNUDT OLSEN DAHL (1829-1913). PAPERS, 1836-1884. 10 items. P 98. Correspondence of a Norwegian-born Dane County, Wisconsin, farmer. The letters were written from Winona, Minnesota; Grand Forks, North Dakota; Canton, South Dakota; and Auburndale, Wisconsin. 323. FOREIGN LANGUAGE INFORMATION SERVICE. NORWEGIAN BUREAU. REPORTS, 1925-1931. 100 items in 4 folders. P 665. Reports to Norwegian immigrants concerning United States immigration laws, naturalization process, suffrage, legal and property rights, labor laws, agriculture, education, and languages. 324. FORSHAUG, JENS H. (b. 1911). TRAVEL REPORT, 1951. 1 item, 6 typescript pages. P 99. A manuscript entitled “Alaska” by an Alaskan gold miner, reindeer inspector, and author, with comments on people, climate, geography, and history. 325. FOSHOLT, SANFORD K. (1915-1998). PAPERS. 1 box and 3 volumes. P 1311. “Ole Hansen Rustande and His Sons Ole the Older, Erik, and Ole the Younger Who Emigrated,” by Ingeborg and Wilhelm Elsrud, 32 pages. The account is based on 130 America letters written by the above named men. Ole Hansen Rustande came to Muskego in 1852 and followed C. L. Clausen to St. Ansgar, Iowa, in 1853. 56
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Page 49 and 50: Hands and Minds,” in Chicago. The
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University of Oslo library. 667. KN
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titles of the 80 works exhibited. T
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farmer at Watford City, North Dakot
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engineer. 1001. OLESON, SOREN (d. 1
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