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

pamphlets, photographs, poems, programs, records, reports, speeches, and
scrapbooks of the dean of women, St. Olaf College (1915-1958). The material deals
with counseling, campus life, student housing, recruitment, funds solicitation,
World War I and World War II, programs at St. Olaf College, and national women’s
organizations.
The collection includes the records of the Roche a Cree Lutheran Church, Arkdale,
Wisconsin; papers of Sjur H. Hilleboe; and correspondence with the E. T. Ytterboe
family.
515. HILLEBOE, HANS SJURSON (1858-1948). PAPERS, 1875-1944. 2 boxes. P 688.
Articles, catalogues, certificates, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks,
notebooks, manuscripts, temperance literature, clippings, and family histories of a
Wisconsin-born educator.
Hilleboe was principal of Willmar Seminary; superintendent of Benson, Minnesota,
public schools; principal of the preparatory department at Luther College; and
professor of education at Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
516. HILLERVIK, BJARNE (1903- ). LETTER, 1979. 1 item. P1025.
Copy of a letter to Rolf Erickson from a retired carpenter, giving details of his life in
Norway and in Chicago, and telling of how he began building model fishing boats.
A model of his “fembøring,” a boat used in the Lofoten Islands region, is on
display at the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, Iowa.
517. HILLESLAND, ANTON. PAPERS, 1923. 1 volume and 1 item. P 158.
“The Norwegian Lutheran Church in the Red River Valley” is a University of North
Dakota Master of Arts thesis, 1923, 152 pages. The file includes seven pages of
notes from interviews with Swen N. Heskin (1854-1924), a Norwegian-born farmer
and lay preacher in the Goose River settlement in North Dakota, regarding early
pioneers and the Hudson’s Bay Company.
518. HILTON FAMILY. LETTERS, 1847-1908. 62 items. P 788.
Copies of letters from members of the Hilton family who emigrated to the United
States to their relatives at Ullensaker, Norway. The letters are chiefly from
Christopher Jacobson, who emigrated in 1854, to his brother Hans Jacobson Hilton,
and from Hans’s son Jacob, who came in 1874 and after a few years settled in
Socorro, New Mexico. There are also some letters from Jacob’s brothers Oluf and
Christopher from New Mexico. There are references to August Hilton, the father of
Conrad Hilton. The letters were obtained through Norsk Historisk Kjeldeskrift
Institutt in Oslo.
519. HIRSCH, STINA L. THESIS, 1985. 1 Item. P 1480.
“The Swedish Maid: 1910-1915,” a De Paul University Master of Arts thesis, 75
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