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Excerpts of letters that were published as a part of series entitled “De gamle
Amerika brev” in Fædrelandsvennen, Kristiansand, 1975. The letters to his family in
Øvrebø were written by a mason contractor who came to Brooklyn about 1900 and
established his own business. Many of the excerpts deal with the effects of the
economic depression of the 1930s.
401. GUNDERSEN, OSCAR (1861-1940). PAPERS, 1934-1939. 1 box. P 650.
Manuscripts and typescripts of 39 poems in Norwegian; two collections of short
stories, “Fra Gutteaarene” and “Brevities”; a dramatic sketch, “Alcestis”; and two
stories with religious themes, “Expiation” and “Vigilius, Leaves from the Journal
of a Roman”; a notebook, and three diaries.
Gundersen, a Chicago accountant, wrote two books: Stemnings-billeder (1891), a
collection of poems, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, En Fremstilling (1910).
402. GUNDERSON, CARL M. RINGEN. GENEALOGY, 1969. 7 items and 7 volumes.
P 728.
“Norwegian Ancestors of General George Washington”; “Famous Americans of
Norwegian Descent”; “Leif Erikson’s Genealogy”; “Biography and Ancestry of
Andrew Furuseth”; “John Anon ‘Snowshoe’ Thompson; and “Descendents of
Roman Caesars & Charlemagne and Norwegian-Swedish Saga Kings” (198 pages).
For an article on Gunderson by Karen E. Hogen, see Western Viking, October 16,
1964.
403. GUNDERSON, SEVERIN (1854-1947). PAPERS, 1887-1919. 5 items. P 117.
Correspondence and a statement regarding the doctrine of predestination by a
Norwegian-born Lutheran clergyman, Mount Horeb, Wisconsin.
404. GUNLAUGSON, ELEANOR IVERSON (1908-1980). PAPERS. 17 folders. P 1242.
Pamphlets, pictures, scrapbooks, clippings of a Minneapolis physician who was
graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1934. She practiced
in different communities before she returned to Minneapolis where she worked at
well-baby clinics in the Department of Public Health and for a time was a medical
director at Northwestern Hospital.
405. GUNNERSEN, ELISE MARGRETH CAMMERMEYER WELHAVEN. MEMOIRS.
1 item. P 1352.
Photocopies of pages 135-270 of the handwritten reminiscences of the wife of
Professor Rud Gunnersen (1844-1904), who taught at Augsburg College,
Minneapolis from 1874 to 1883.
The memoir is a lively account of the interrelated lives of the Sverdrups, Oftedals,
and Gunnersens, who occupied three apartments in the same house near the
Augsburg campus. Elise Gunnersen found it difficult to adapt to life in
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