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

ased on information Hanche-Olsen garnered from his parents who visited
Windingstad, from letters Windingstad wrote to his sister, and from extensive
reviews, reports, and critiques that had appeared in Norwegian-American
newspapers.
Windingstad was born May 18, l886, at Sandefjord, Norway. After studies in Oslo
and Leipzig, he settled in New York in 1906. He was director of the Nordmændenes
Sangforening in Brooklyn from 1911 to 1939, but also led many other
choral, orchestral, and operatic groups in the New York area, including visiting
musical organizations from Norway. He conducted the New Orleans Symphony
Orchestra for four years. He made orchestral arrangements and composed a
number of pieces. His most notable symphonic work may have been “The Tides.”
He died June 3, l959.
The file also contains 35 clippings, a 1922 concert program, and a 1923 letter.
436. HANDE, HALLVARD H. (1846-1887). PAPERS. 5 items in 1 folder. P 128.
Translation of Segner fraa Bygdom, by a Norwegian-born Lutheran clergyman and
editor, consisting of some forty legends from Valdres, Norway, 67 typescript pages.
The translation was done in the 1950s by Hande’s granddaughter, M. E. Midelfort,
Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Ei Hugvending, pages 3-62, unbound with no title page; an
untitled play, 41 typescript pages with missing parts; “Snefnugg: digt og prosa, af
H. Hande, 1870,” an unpaged manuscript; and one volume of manuscript music, 44
pages.
Hande was the editor of Norden, Chicago (1874-1882 and 1884-1887), and the author
of a play, Ei Hugvending (A Change of Heart), based on Valdres superstition and
tradition.
437. HANNSEN, OLAF JORGEN. See Hanssen, 463.
438. HANSEN, ANNE M. AND H. J. LETTER, 1853. 1 item. P 435.
Copy of a letter to a relative commending American wages, climate, crops,
machinery and tools, food, and work opportunities. Written from Janesville, Rock
County, Wisconsin.
439. HANSEN, CARL GUSTAV OTTO (1871-1960). PAPERS, 1862-1958. 19 boxes. P
543.
Correspondence, articles, lectures, reports, clippings, scrapbooks, and diaries of a
Norwegian-born Minneapolis journalist, musician, lecturer, and author.
Hansen emigrated in 1881. He was first a member of the editorial staff of
Minneapolis Tidende (1897-1935) and its chief editor from 1923 to 1935, and a
contributor to Skandinaven from 1935 to 1937. He served as the educational director
of Sons of Norway (1937-1954), directed the Norwegian Glee Club (1912-1945), was
president of the Norwegian-Danish Press Association, and a founder of Det Norske
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