Original scrapbook of Olav Boen with pasted in pictures, postcards, and invitations.
Contains one booklet of papers relating to the Scandinavian Presence in US sent out to the participants of the coming Scanpresence II conference. The Scanpresence (Scandinavian Presence in America) conference was first held in 1973, to discuss the presence of Scandinavian organizations, institutions, and interests in the US, as a way of preserving these cultures.
CDs from the Swedish Immigration Jubilee, Program for the Pacific Coast Norway Chorus, Swingin' Swedish Schottisches and Waltzes album, Swedish album, "That Old Norwegian Song and Dance" CD, article "A Singing Church" by Paul Maurice Glasoe, and an article on "The Fiddler from Romsdal" by Jim Erickson.
Information about some of the Scandinavian Lodges and also declared Scandinavian Day along with newspaper clippings and the pages of a scrapbook.
This is the family history of the Rulison family. This collection includes several different essays and several letters between Jane, Nettie and Cornelius. It also includes a short biography of Sally Ann and her family.
Contains loose sheets regarding the "Rype" - Norwegian Special Operations Group, with texts and pictures remembering the operation and the people.
A photocopy of a twenty-seven page typed biography of two Point Roberts pioneers, Dagbjort and Helgi Thorsteinson. Compiled, translated, and written by Runa Thordarson. Also included are photocopied portraits of Helgi and Dagbjort and a photo of their home in Point Roberts from a newspaper clipping (the newspaper cites their surname as Thorstenson).
Contains a family history report, a correspondence and some family stories translated from the Sletken Heide. The book Sletken Heide is a book that narrates the history of the Heide family. It includes the journey that they made from Denmark to Oslo around 1600. The Heides were part of an upper class that received good jobs and also good money. However, as is explained by the creator, the fortune declined around the early 1800s. Inserted in this collection are a couple translated stories about some of the family members.
The ancestors to author Nordahl Rolfsen and his son, a painter, Alf Rolfsen, from 1280 till 1953.