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Eleven letters written by Olaf Walseth of Trondheim, Norway, from 3 December 1922 to 24 July 1928. Olaf Walseth lived in “Fjeldly” on Byåsen, a part of Trondheim. He had two brothers, Ørnulf and Bertram. Three of the letters are addressed to Bella and one is addressed to “dear sister.” The rest of the letters start with “dear.” The letters describe Olaf’s life and contain responses to letters sent to him.

Correspondence and autobiographical material in English and Norwegian.

Letters in Norwegian from B.O. Berge of Ottawa, Illinois, to his cousin Hilda Espedal in Norway, written from 1937-1939. File also contains clippings with photographs of Olaus Westbo and his wife, and a 1983 letter written in English from Professor Janet Rasmussen to Mr. Karl Schultz of Illinois.

Contains various documents and items that Olav Boen kept during his lifetime. During the first decade of the twentieth century, he kept a scrapbook where he saved programs and tickets from events he attended, wedding invitations, and greeting cards from friends. He also kept a few loose brochures and programs, which span the years 1912 to 1971. He also accumulated photographs and postcards from his travels, mostly to Norway. The collection also contains newspaper articles, both in English and Norwegian, documenting Boen’s activity in the Scandinavian community in the Pacific Northwest.

Consists of the autobiography of Ole Bakken, which he wrote in 1990 and dedicated to his grandchildren. The story covers his life in America after his parents and he emigrated from Norway in 1926.

Consists of a leaflet written by Norman B. Wilkinson and published by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in 1962 and several Norwegian newspaper article written about Bull dating from 1929 to 1956. The leaflet contains information on Ole Bull’s music and compositions, emigration and colonization, and political activities.

Consists of Norwegian contracts from the sale of property belonging to Ole Slind before the family immigrated to Minnesota. The deed to his farm in Norway and selling papers are included. The materials are in Norwegian.

Contract between Thomas Angells Stiftelser (seller) and Kari Olsdatter Slind (buyer) regarding sale of the property Slindan Nordre, Gnr. 141, bnr. 2 from October 21, 1920. (3 pages, some handwritten).
Skylddelingsforretning (survey) of the farm Slind, Gnr. Bnr. 1 performed on September 16, 1920 (6 pages, some handwritten).
Report from Thomas Angells Stiftelser regarding the results of the survey of September 16, 1920, and how the farm Slind now is divided into 22 different places (33 pages).
Conveyance between Thomas Angell’s Stiftelser (seller) and Kari Olsdatter Slind (buyer) regarding sale of the property Slind Nedre Gnr. 143, bnr. 9 of October 19, 1921 (1 page).
Receipt regarding payment for the property Slind Nedre; date October 21, 1921 (1 page, some handwritten).
Contract with comments between Kari Olsdatter Slind (seller) and Ole Gundersen Slind Jr. (buyer) regarding the sale of the property Slind Nedre Gnr. 143, bnr. 9 (2 pages handwritten contract and 2 pages typewritten comments).
Conveyance regarding the property Slind Nedre, as decided in previous contract. Announced on February 10, 1922 (1 page).
Contract with comments between Ole Gundersen Slind (seller) and Jørgen Olsen Klegseth (buyer) regarding the sale of the property Kjøsnes søndre Gnr. 157, bnr. 2 (2 pages).

This document begins with one page on an English to Norwegian computer translation program developed by Don Hundven. The rest of the document is a family genealogy and history beginning with Marit and Ole Overlie. Each of their nine children and their spouses, children, and children’s children are discussed. Marit and Ole had thirty-five grandchildren. There is also information about Marit’s family, the Andrew Halvorsen Family and the Halvorsen quadruplets. There is a transcript of a news clipping about the fifty year anniversary of Ole and Marit Overlie. Finally, there is a history of Martin Kristian Hundvin (the father of the author of this manuscript) and descendants.

Contains three folders. The first folder contains: A newspaper add in the Washington Post for 1 June 1939 for Kristoferson’s Dairy greeting Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha of Norway to Seattle, A clipping dated about 1928 about Blindheim’s dairy winning first prize in a contest, A clipping dated 15 April 1941 entitled “Norwegian Ship Engineer Flies Here for Visit After 33 Years” about Anton and Ole Blindheim, brothers, reuniting after thirty-two years, A clipping with a picture advertising a performance by Ole and his grandson, Dale, at the Tacoma YMCA. The second folder contains early snapshots: Ole as a child, Ole’s mother circa 1910, Ole’s grandparents Mikal and Gunhild Blindheim (Ole’s father’s father from Nordfjord), Ole’s father Rasmus Mikelsen and his third wife, Ole and Anna Blindheim’s wedding picture from 1919, Ole and Nick in Alaska about 1909, Ole in 1909 during the Alaska Yukon Exposition, Ole wearing a cowboy hat with a group of men in front of Smyser’s Hotel in Chatanika 1910, Nick and Ole in the mines, two pictures of the Ester Creek mine shaft, Blindheim family in front of the old homestead, Anna and Ole with Agnetta and Alvin about 1938, mining pictures, picture of a stainless steel truck trailer for taking milk from Sequim to Seattle by ferry daily about 1946, picture of John Peterson, Gus Carlson, Walter Barton, and manager Ole Blindheim in front of La Villa Dairy, Nick and Ole Blindheim in Fairbanks, Ole on Blueberry Hill. The third folder contains more recent, color snapshots: Five pictures from Blueberry Hill Farm in Bothell, Washington about 1965, three pictures of the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church Christmas Pageant from 1984, 1985, and 1986, ten pictures of Ole, three large pictures of Ole playing harmonica at the Northwest Folklife festival in 1989. The photographs mostly have labels on the back with greater detail.