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

9. AASLAND, OLE HERBRANDSEN (1795-1864). PAPERS, 1831-1847, 1934. 19 items.
P 6.
Emigration papers, receipts, promissory notes, and recipes of an 1840 emigrant
from Numedal who settled at Kendall, New York.
10. ABRAHAMSEN, CHRISTIAN (b. 1887). PAPERS, ca. 1931. 17 items. P 891.
Biographical information about a Norwegian-born artist who came to the United
States in 1918. He established himself in Chicago and became widely known as a
portrait painter. Two of his portraits, those of presidents L. W. Boe and Clemens
Granskou, hang in St. Olaf Center.
11. ADER, SVERRE H. MANUSCRIPT, ca. 1931. 408 pages. P 7.
“Amerika feberen begynner: Av norsk utvandrings historie 1839,” dealing with the
1839 Norwegian immigrants and the causes and results of their migration. A letter
of Ansten Nattestad from Jefferson Prairie, Wisconsin, November 6, 1839, is
included (pages 232-234). Pages 251-392 treat the 326 who emigrated, mostly from
Buskerud, Telemark, Rogaland, and Hordaland.
Under his earlier name, Sv. Herbert Herbransen, Ader published in 1924 De første
utvandrere fra Numedal til Amerika i 1837, and an edition of Ole Nattestad’s Beskrivelse
over en reise til Nordamerika i 1837 in 1926. A newspaper article from Nordisk Tidende,
December 25, 1924, summarizing the first is included here. Also Ader’s letter to
Theodore C. Blegen about the manuscript and Blegen’s response (1961).
12. AGER, WALDEMAR THEODOR (1869-1941). PAPERS, 1874-1943. 11 boxes. P
601.
Papers of a Norwegian-born journalist, author, and lecturer: clippings, articles,
correspondence, manuscripts of books, poems, programs, records, sketches, and
stories dealing with subjects such as Norwegian culture and heritage,
Americanism, memorials to Norwegians in America, and temperance.
Among the correspondents are Carl F. Berg, Arne K. Berger, L. W. Boe, H. A.
Eckers, John O. Evjen, Ruth Fjeldsaa, Sigurd Folkestad, Einar Haugen, John
Heitman, H. R. Holand, Simon Johnson, Arne Kildal, Lars Lillehei, E. L. Mengshoel,
Jon Norstog, Torkel Oftelie, K. Prestgard, D. G. Ristad, Mrs. O. E. Rølvaag, Johan
Selnes, T. A. Siqueland, Edvard Skille, Charles C. W. Storck, J. L. Urheim, and
Alexander Wiley.
Ager was editor of Reform, Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Among his best known books are
Paa drikkeondets Konto (1894), Kristus for Pilatus (1910), Oberst Heg og hans gutter (1916),
Paa veien til smeltepotten (1917), Gamlelandets sønner (1926), and Hundeøine (1929).
“The Problem of Cultural Identity in the Works of Waldemar Ager, S. Johnson and
Wist,” a Ph. D. dissertation by James P. Nelson, University of Washington, 1990, is
in the NAHA book collection.
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