A typescript of a biography of the Rev. Anders O. Aasen, and a program from the celebration of his one hundredth birthday in 1974.
Title: From the fjord lands to the flat lands: The Ancestors and Descendants of Nils O. Urness and Juditha Batalden
A 210-page scrapbook with lists of about 125 ancestors of Nils O. Urness and Juditha Batalden and about 250 of their descendants. There are about 800 photographs. It is divided into four sections. Section A is an introduction, section B details Nils O. Urness and his ancestors, section C details Juditha Batalden and her ancestors, and section D details the descendants of Nils and Juditha through the year 2000.
This document contains two pages of reminiscences and one page of information about the area, buildings, and owners of the St. Svenstorp home. A description of farm life in Sweden in the late 1800s as told by Alfred Johansson (born 1863). He recalls Christmas, St. Knut's Day (January 13) and St. Erik's Day (May 18), funeral customs, and accounts of various traditions and superstitions observed by people in rural Sweden. These included putting a snake into the cowshed for luck, and crossing the shafts of the ploughs, etc. used to work the fields in order to ward off witchcraft.
Newsletters from the Alaska Yukon Pioneers Cabin #1 from 1962. Contains several pages of one text document, and pictures of wooden totems. The newsletter talks about minutes, and the organizations member and their lives. Mentions members that passed away, the officers of the cabin, and some financial notes.
A booklet regarding the 75 year jubilee of Abraham Vereide’s immigration to America in 1905. The booklet is in Norwegian.
