Kristine Brobakken

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Kristine Brobakken

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  • 1939-1941 (Creation)

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This collection contains a Festival of Nations program, and a program for the American Tour of the Norwegian Royal University Chorus in 1939, newspaper clipping, biographical information, fourteen pictures, and eight postcard pictures from Tretten and Hjelmsted in Gudbrandsdalen, Norway. This information is found in two folders.

One folder contains fourteen historical photographs of: the Festival of Nations, St. Paul, 1939; Brobakken family in front of their home in St. Paul; wedding picture of Kristine and Gustav Brobakken; ladies group at church with Norwegian and American flags; young ladies in Norway taken in Hønefoss; large picture of the Brobakken farm; large picture of food preparation for Festival of Nations; large picture of Scandinavian salute display from 1948; seven small pictures from Norway. There are also eight postcard pictures from Tretten and Hjelmsted, Gudbrandsdalen, Norway, where Gustav grew up and Kristine spent part of her youth.

The second folder includes three newspaper clippings showing Norse-American activities, a Festival of Nations program, and a program for the American Tour of the Norwegian Royal University Chorus in 1939.

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      Kristine Brobakken was born on 1 April 1881 in Hønefoss, Norway. She worked in a creamery and then spent five years or so living with her Aunt Hanna Hjelmsted near Tretten in Gudbrandsdalen, Norway. She immigrated around the year 1902 and found work doing housework for a family that owned Vanderbie’s ice cream factory. She married Gustav Brobakken, from Tretten, in April 1906 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was a stonemason who started his own business. They had four children. Kristine was active in various Norwegian organizations, including the Daughters of Norway. She died 21 February 1965 in St. Paul.

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